model.collapse is an immersive exhibition that depicts the landscape from which (generative) AI emerges..


Revealing its self-consuming origins in extraction of the earth’s resources and data through relics, artifacts and stories from the past...








Type in a query at the main station, where you are hosted by a local language model that determines your location within the generative digital environment. Your query dynamically breathes life into this generative digital biome and sets the scene of the exhibition.

The exhibition is inhabited by cyber sculptures with distinct forms, voices and logics... As dynamic narrators sensitive to changes in light and other environmental cues, the sculpture (/deity-like entity) that resonates most with your query – awakens and shares its knowledge through the central interface. Together they resist dominant computational ideologies entangled in ai’s origin narratives, telling stories of mystification, gender bias, non-western epistemologies, the ecological cost of computation, and labor ...



Model Collapse was visible at TETEM september 26, 2024 until february 23, 2025. And will be visible again july 12 - august 25, 2025 @ Noorderlicht Biënnale, and september 4 - 7, 2025 at Ars Electronica.

Model Collapse is in collaboration + made possible by: TETEM
Cyber sculptures made possible by: Tetem, K.F. Hein Fonds and Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie

Concept: Cyanne van den Houten + Ymer Marinus
Interface Mainstation: Ymer Marinus + Cyanne van den Houten
Interactive cyber sculptures, research text + images, 3D environment and models, AI system prompt tweaking, installation design, microcontroller + sensor coding: Cyanne van den Houten
Spatial sound, interactive spots, experience design and realisation of connection between: landscape + custom local AI system + interface, main codes: Ymer Marinus
Interface redesign: Roos Groothuizen

archive.dweller draws from the Centraal Museum's dataset of 70,000 objects. using artificial intelligence, it combines two objects from the database to create a new image.



archive.dweller is a portal to the unique mindset of this open-source AI, revealing the texts extracted by the machine from the images. The algorithmic interpretations and associations (normally concealed) of the artworks are often factually incorrect, sometimes poetic, occasionally style-breaking but above all, they are infinitely diverse.
The process of combining two artworks results in giving a contemporary twist to seventeenth-century paintings, while rietveld's chairs, for example, can suddenly take on a picturesque context.

The archive.dweller has been created by Telemagic for Centraal Museum, and you can see it as part of Collectie Centraal until 2026.









Concert in A.I. is a series of concerts where self-learning musical algorithm vNine is the abiquitous host, conductor, instrument and musician.

Through a combination of theatrical and algorithmic black boxes Telemagic searches for new insights in music, creation, space and visual design. 

Concert in A.I. invites you to ascend with vNine into a exploration of extended dimensions within music.

︎︎︎ In-depth read about vNine












In collaboration with: Arran Lyon, Mrinalini Luthra and Valentin Vogelmann
In coproduction with Frascati Producties
Made possible by AFK

WHEEL OF TELEFORTUNE


This oracle predicts your future behavior
and presents this in a unique horoscope.









︎Planet B - De Waag
︎Immortality - Overkill Festival
︎Symposium Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Paradiso
︎Tussen Kunst en Glitch - Nederlands Film Festival
︎Screen It - Stadstriënnale Hasselt-Genk
︎Kabbalah Maand – Kriterion
︎Nacht voor de Nacht - DOKA
︎TeleState - De School
︎Wait for Cue - SHELTER


1 Euro Cinema






The 1 Euro Cinema is a cinematic oracle that randomly shows a movie if you put in 1 euro (out of the curated program by Telemagic).

With videoworks (from 1/17 minutes) of 40+ makers that give a perspective on invisible technology or the curated theme.



Selection of films in the 1 Euro Cinema @ de school:




Anastasia Kubrak - UNREAL ESTATE

Biyi Zhu - Change

Carole Cicciu - Left Over

Chris Rijk - You Think You’re a Man


Derk Over - LOM Channel + Afterglow

Floris van Driel - Three Sixty

Heleen Mineur - YBEREAL


Jeroen Exterkate -
Fucking Humans

Jonathan Castro - Body Upload

Jordy Ringeling - Extinction

Juliette Lizotte - A Triptych Fantasy On Local Food

Kateryna Gaidamaka - Post Soviet

Kévin Bray - In Between + Untitled

Levi van Gelder - 10 SC WLTZ

Lotte Hardeman - Lacuna

Loui Meeuwissen - The Chapel

Manus Nijhoff - Like a Frog in Boiling Water

Mary Ponomareva - Luxury Survival Fair

Minhong Yu - Breathe

Nazanin Karimi - Landscape on Hold

Noviki Studio - The Soul Agent

Roos Groothuizen  - I am not sure whats gonna happen

Ruben Baart - HPRHDRSS2

Stëfan Schäfer - Body/Ritual
Steffi Luchtenberg - FlashB4

TeYosh - MTV

Thomas Birsak - Untitled

Valerie van Zuijlen - Scrolling in to the Deep







Series with Guest Curators:


︎Roodkapje
︎WORM
︎De School
︎Museumn8 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
︎Wildeburg Festival
︎Not For Profit Art Party
︎Vondel CS
︎Macao Design Center
︎Overkill Festival
︎M Leuven

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