sculptural installation
Concrete, Silicone, Steel, bespoke electronics
In the darkness of winter, MNEME emerges as a retrofuturistic entity, an artificial intelligence that has gained awareness in a physical, sculptural form. The work reflects on our relationship with technology, viewed through past visions of the future.
MNEME evokes both the cold server rooms of data centres and something more organic and extraterrestrial. The sculpture is constructed from panel-like concrete elements mounted on columns, reminiscent of an abandoned machine room. Each panel contains embedded luminous silicone elements that pulse in warm white and golden tones, as if the thoughts of the intelligence were made visible.
A subdued soundscape of crackling noise and data streams envelops the audience, creating a unified spatial experience. When visitors touches the panels, both light and sound shift, suggesting an early attempt by this intelligence to communicate with its surroundings.
Each panel functions as a node within a larger network, equipped with sensors, a microcontroller, and a speaker. Together they form a distributed system, a kind of brain, where light, sound, and interaction merge into the impression of a single coherent being.
MNEME is both a monument and a living organism. A memorial to past technological dreams and a sensory dialogue with the invisible infrastructures of the present.
Copenhagen Light Festival
Jan 30. – Feb 22. 2026
Ørestad
Copenhagen, Denmark
