Digital technologies are radically challenging our perception of reality. Generative AI shifts categories such as truthfulness, fiction and authorship, creating new aesthetics but also new insecurities. At the same time, it becomes clear that the former utopia of a democratic Internet is increasingly dominated by a few powerful actors. In 2026 and 2027, the Goethe-Institut Brussels will highlight artistic discourses that develop alternative, resistant and emancipatory visions of the future on artificial intelligence. The focus will be on changing working conditions, new forms of artistic expression and the role of AI in the age of visual disinformation. 

As part of the programme series, three exciting projects are currently being developed in which the Goethe-Institut Brussels, together with Belgian and European partners such as iMAL – Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, KIKK Le Pavillon, The Future of Living Festival, Biennale de l’Image Possible 2026, EUNIC Brussels, as well as in German-French cooperation (Alliance Française de Bruxelles-Europe with the cultural departments of the German and French Embassies in Belgium), explores the political, social, and aesthetic dimensions of AI.

The program begins in autumn 2026.