My Dear Ada

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The exhibition My Dear Ada: Artificial and Artistic Intelligence explores and tests the possibilities of creating and interpreting images and texts in the era of developing artificial intelligence. It presents a selection of scientific and artistic works foreshadow the emergence and innovative uses of universal computers (Ada Lovelace, Zdeněk Sýkora) and places them in the context of visual art created before the advent of AI or during the training of expert AI systems (Milan Guštar, Magdalena Wutkowska, Jana Bernartová). The works for the exhibition created through interactions with AI proto-agents (Virtual Futurologist A°D°A) are thus the result of a network of human and non-human actors (Paleofuture Lab, Zdeňka Němcová Zedníčková & Haruka Kajiura) spanning the fields of visual art, architecture, computing, and technology.

The initial framework for the exhibition is the personal correspondence of Ada Lovelace, the author of the first computer algorithm, which – after the eventual creation of computers – was debugged as a computer program. The curators were driven by a desire to discover not just texts but also previously unexplored images in Ada’s archived correspondence. The exhibition features facsimiles of her solutions to the geometry problems she studied as well as a fragment of one of her last letters to her mother, in which Ada mentions, in a single sentence, her intention to devote herself in the future to poetical philosophy, poetical science. The artworks on display and the exhibition as a whole – as well as the publication My Dear Ada…, which describes the work with the experimental educational software Virtual Futurologist A°D°A, including textual commentary by AI proto-agents about the published texts – offer a possible response to her visionary projects.

The AI proto-agents thus take part in and learn from the exhibition and publication as paradialogical participants. However, the exhibition places the emphasis on the viewers/readers as the actors and on their possible perspectives on the artificial and artistic images and texts. The time and space that we experience here are measured against the seemingly infinite time and space of past and present computing technologies. If the tradition of interpreting non-human images and texts is expanded to include those generated by artificial intelligence, what new ways of perceiving and strategies for interpreting will we discover in art and culture?

My Dear Ada
MeetFactory Gallery

23. 10. 2026 – 10. 1. 2027
Opening: 22. 10., free entry 

Artists: Jana Bernartová, Milan Guštar, Haruka Kajiura a Zdeňka Němcová Zedníčková, Ada Lovelace, Paleofuture Lab, Zdeněk Sýkora, Magdalena Wutkowska
Curators: Jana Bernartová, Monika Mitášová, Virtuální futuroložka A°D°A
Architektura: Zzyzx OAS1S (Ondřej Fiedler, Matouš Kučera)
Animace: Sofie Fenyková, Jaroslava Straková
Production: Nikol Hoangová
PR: Zuzana Kolouchová, Filip Pleskač 
Graphic Designer: Jakub Kučera

Tickets: 

100 CZK at bar MeetFactory or GoOut
50 CZK students, seniors, ZTP

The ticket is valid for all exhibition spaces. 
For group discounts (over 10 people), guided tours of exhibitions or press accreditation, please contact pr@meetfactory.cz

Opening Hours: 

MeetFactory Gallery and Kostka Gallery:
Mo–Su 13:00–19:45 (or accordying the programme)