Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
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In the current online climate, we're all rolling around in the screen-fuelled dystopia of the AI-verse, and things are feeling pretty weird. Strangely convincing videos and eerily-real (yet not quite) photos have taken over the internet, and with it, our collective perception of reality. Whether it's the current US President or your mum, there are few folks on the planet today who aren't grappling with the inane and mysterious powers of artificial intelligence.
It is this truth that has launched the MCA's groundbreaking exhibition, aptly titled Data Dreams: Art and AI, an immersive and first-of-its-kind art show that is sweeping through a series of interconnected gallery spaces in the MCA until April 27, 2026.
Featuring the groundbreaking works of ten otherwordly artists from all around the world, Data Dreams is setting itself up to be a guide to cut through the misinformation and brainrot so frequently associated with AI. Through immersive installations, AI-films and hallucinatory imagery, the exhibition aims to spark your curiosity, challenge your thinking and ponder what to expect from the years to come.
You'll be pointed through Big Questions, like how technology influences power, how our algorithims are shaping each of our individual world views, and how to navigate an illusory "reality".
The artists asking you to expand your mind come from all over, and each of them have something very fascinating to say. From palawa artist Angie Abdilla's work 'Meditation on Country', where Indigenous knowledge systems are melded with Western astrophysics, to UK artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas, who has created a vast, artificial video forest that transports its audience into a virtual world full of avatars, you're bound for a mind-bending and deeply expansive viewing experience that promises to fly you out to the furthest edge of the intergalatic sea of the Internet.
Data Dreams will be open every day except Tuesday, and tickets can be snapped up right here. Don't miss the chance to see art and AI collide in this disruptive exhibition at the MCA.
