"Intrusive Thoughts" Jurģis Peters

What can generative artificial intelligence (AI) not stop thinking about? At the core of this exhibition is an artistic inquiry into the visual archetypes that underpin AI models—archetypes whose presence we only dimly perceive in our daily lives. These forms reflect what the system has 'seen' most frequently and knows best. They are not merely aesthetic, but cultural: a sedimentation of visual norms and biases accumulated within the training data.

Curator: Raitis Šmits

Exhibition opening: May 28, 2026, at 18.00.

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RIXC is the center for new media culture, art gallery and artist collective, that initiates projects in intersection of art, science and emerging technologies. RIXC's activities encompass artist-in-residency programs, media art exhibitions, innovative art-science projects, and the annual RIXC Art Science festival. RIXC organizes annual conferences and curates international exhibitions. The proceedings and reviews are published in the RIXC publication series titled Acoustic Space. The innovative themes published include Techno-Ecologies (2011), Data Drift (2015), Renewable Futures (2015), Virtualities and Realities (2019), Green Revisited (2020), and Beyond the Hybrid (2024). As co-founders of Liepaja University's Art Research Lab, RIXC advocates for new media art education. Renowned for network-building, RIXC is shaping the Renewable Network for Baltic-Nordic and European collaboration.