What does a machine remember? What happens to our memories when they are converted into data? *Latent Memories* is a Greek-Polish cultural exchange that uses the archive as a starting point to explore two processes: the way artificial intelligence processes information (sometimes interpreting it as an “illusion”), as well as the way societies preserve their historical memory. It includes an exhibition, a film screening program, masterclasses, performances, and discussions with artists in Athens and Thessaloniki.

The exhibition features ten works by artists from Poland and Greece, including installations, videos, virtual reality (VR) experiences, and interactive works. Taken together, they highlight the fact that memory does not belong exclusively to the human mind. It is also imprinted and preserved in bodies, materials, and machines.

Some works follow the traces left behind in matter: breath, hair, the liquid that once circulated as a cooling medium in the servers. Others examine what is lost when lived experience is transformed into data. Photographic evidence takes on the fluidity of an unstable digital landscape, while personal testimonies are transformed into fragile records of conflict and displacement. Some of these works take a critical look at artificial intelligence itself: the biases absorbed by algorithms, the manipulation of narratives in the media, as well as the way in which machine learning classifies and evaluates the human body. Some works also envision an artificial intelligence that could dream and create alongside us, rather than functioning solely as a tool.

• The exhibition will open on November 4, 2026, at Romantso in Athens and on November 18, 2026, at Beetroot House in Thessaloniki.

• The parallel program includes artist talks, performances, film screenings, and masterclasses featuring presentations by artists from both countries. The talks shed light on the ideas and creative processes behind the works in the exhibition. The masterclasses are aimed at artists, students, and anyone interested in creatively experimenting with technology, archives, and artificial intelligence (AI).

• Admission is free for the exhibition and all accompanying events.

    Μore information and full schedule of events: latentmemories.art

• In the Participation of

Κaterina Antonopoulou (GR) · Agata Chodera (PL) · Giorgos Drosos (GR) · Kyriaki Goni (GR) · NOVIKI (PL) · Gioula Papadopoulou & Olga Papadopoulou (GR) · Grzegorz Stefański (PL) · Maria Varela (GR) · Iga Węglińska (PL) · Jakub Wróblewski (PL)

Curators: Anna Szylar, Evi Stamou

Producers: Mateusz Kacprowicz, Daina Kefalogianni, Pola Komarowa

Organized by: Monster Mind Studio · Interferences

In the collaboration of: Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Hotel Vergina (Thessaloniki)

Χώροι διεξαγωγής:

Romantso: Αναξαγόρα 3, Αθήνα
Beetroot House: Συγγρού 8, Θεσσαλονίκη