Helena Schultheis Edgeler

About the exhibition

When Aby Warburg began his renowned Mnemosyne Atlas project in 1924, researching the “afterlives” (Nachleben) of images, he could hardly have imagined that a century later humanity would be communicating with an artificial consciousness capable even of offering interpretations of answers. Helena Schultheis Edgeler (Zagreb, 1972), a painter and art historian, is a pioneer on the domestic scene who embraced artificial intelligence tools with openness, exploring the creative possibilities of dialogue between human and “machine. ” What Warburg anticipated with his panels as a sort of illustrated database, AI now accomplishes with a simple programming command.