Invitation to the Generative Art Summit

Two-day conference – film night with historic computer art animations – performance “The Orchid Cage”

2024, July 3rd – 6th
Generative Art Summit
Academy of Arts, Berlin, Hanseatenweg

Festival Pass — 4 tickets at reduced total price

Press release – The art meets science – Foundation Herbert W. Franke invites the community of generative art to the “Generative Art Summit” from July 3 to 6. At the heart of the event is a two-day conference and additional evening events at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Hanseatenweg. More than 50 guests of honor from around the world will come together for a cross-generational meet and greet – artists whose works have shaped this art style for seven decades, as well as innovative museum professionals and art historians who have been researching the development of generative art for decades. They will be joined by major collectors and important platform operators in the blockchain who specialize in the distribution of artworks. In addition to the two-day conference with lectures and panel discussions, there will be two evening events in Berlin: a film night with historical computer animations and a theater performance “Sandfiction 4K: Orchid Cage” as the artistic finale of the foundation festival. The artist group Kaleidolux conjures up a future world on stage with an actress, two musicians and a sand painter. The visionary story is based on Franke’s utopian novel “The Orchid Cage”. The use of AI as an “art machine” had previously been discussed at the Summit conference. But what if, as the visionary Franke asked back in 1961, artificial intelligence were to be developed into an “ethical machine”? He also questioned the high tech “entertainization” of human civilization – both topics that still seemed very distant in the future at the time. The public Vernissage of the exhibition “Code – Kunst- Konstruktionen. Zur Geschichte der generativen Kunst” at Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg is combined with a day excursion of the invited guests to the castle Wolfsburg. Additonally to the vernissage of the exhibitions which shows works of the foundation’s collection “Franke & Friends”, the international guests will visit the Institut Heidersberger, also located in the castle Wolfsburg.