Silvia Dal Dosso
“Weird AF” trilogy
Exhibition
18 June–15 August 2025
Aksioma | Project Space, Ljubljana
Opening
WED, 18 June at 7 PM
Part of Tactics&Practice #16: Are You A Software Update?
Curated by Nora O’ Murchú, Socrates Stamatatos, Janez Fakin Janša, Neja Berger
Welcome to the “Weird AF” trilogy: a three-part series of short films mapping out the emotional, cultural, and existential fallout of life in the post-truth era. Using the voice of a synthetic Adam Curtis, each archival style short traces a stage in humanity’s accommodation to unreality.
The Future Ahead Will Be Weird AF (2023, 10 min)
Set in the unreality of an AI-driven post-truth world where reality blurs with deepfakes, resurrected celebrities, and collapsing internet culture, The Future Ahead Will Be Weird AF explores our descent into confusion and adaptation to synthetic identities, warning that in the chaos ahead, nothing will feel real, yet everything will still demand our attention.
The Future Is Going to Be Weird AF (2024, 10 min)
While you’re busy making out with nonhuman agents and using ASMR to distract yourself, The Future Is Going to Be Weird AF shows us how emotional advertising is reformulating our deepest feelings, and how this affective, mediated reality is obscuring the higher priority: survival.
The Future Is Now Finally Weird AF (2025, 12 min)
Set in a world of AI agents, weaponized LLMs, and hyper-flexible humanoids catering to the whims of tech CEOs as the world burns and ordinary people are trapped in the immediacy of everyday struggle, The Future Is Now Finally Weird AF maps out our descent into thoughtfully engineered distraction. The future isn’t just weird as fuck, it’s already among us.
THE AUTHOR
Silvia Dal Dosso is an artist, writer and researcher in digital technologies and web subcultures. In 2016, she co-founded Clusterduck, an art collective working in the fields of research, design and transmedia. With Clusterduck, she created and curated collective exhibitions and interactive installations, such as #MEMEPROPAGANDA and Meme Manifesto, and publications, such as The Detective Wall Guide (Aksioma, 2021) and Deep Fried Feels (Nero, 2024). She writes about art and technology (and how to survive it) in INC Longform, Domus, Not Nero and sparse magazines.
CREDITS
Authors: Silvia Dal Dosso
Production:
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2025
Part of the series:
Tactics & Practice
In collaboration with:
VFX Ljubljana – Festival of experimental audiovisual practices
Financial support:
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of Ljubljana