Blooming Minds: Science Fiction and the Garden of Alternative Intelligences

How can science fiction, digital arts, and artificial intelligence expand our understanding of consciousness and other forms of intelligence?

In this conversation, the artist duo CROSSLUCID — whose work reimagines Ursula K. Le Guin’s visions through digital art and AI — joins Canadian-Luxembourgish author Mary Carey, whose literary explorations question hybridity and fluid identities.

Between CROSSLUCID’s visual interpretation of non-human consciousness and Carey’s narrative approach to the boundaries between nature and technology, this dialogue with curators Vincent Crapon and Françoise Poos explores how literature and digital art invite us to rethink our notions of intelligence and consciousness.

Free, open to all 
Booking required: http://​tickets​.luxembourg​-ticket​.lu/​38444 / info@​elektron.​lu 
This event is photo-documented

CROSSLUCID is an artist collective (est. 2018) that col­lab­o­rates across disciplines to explore the inter­sec­tion of self, technology, and digital intimacy. Their work reimagines technology as part of a shared, evolving biosphere and universal con­scious­ness. Using filmmaking, poetic AI, collage, and immersive inter­ven­tions, they create experiences that envision future pos­si­bil­i­ties and metamodern values. Recent exhibitions include Shanghai Archi­tec­ture Biennale, Vellum LA, Osaka Museum of Fine Arts, Art Encounters Biennial, and Art Basel Miami. Their work has been com­mis­sioned by the Berggruen Institute, Serpentine Gallery, Google Arts & Culture, Nike, and others. 

Mary Carey (Dubrule) was born in Toronto, Canada and grew up in the Beaches neigh­bour­hood on the shores of Lake Ontario. She is the seventh of eight children. Mary studied English and History at the University of Toronto, and completed a one-year programme at the Humber School for Writers. In 1991, she moved to Luxembourg, where she raised her four sons. Today, she considers both sides of the pond her home. She was a journalist for years, has published hundreds of articles and worked as a corporate writer for more than fifteen years. In Luxembourg, she started a writing group, The Creative Writing Club of Luxembourg, which led her to co-edit and contribute to the anthology, Writing from a Small Country in 2004. Her first novel, Irre­sistible Blending was published in 2022. 

Vincent Crapon is curator at Elektron

Françoise Poos is artistic and scientific director at Elektron

This talk is presented in col­lab­o­ra­tion with LUGA – a city-wide, open-air exhibition of urban gardens in Luxembourg City, and Centre national de littérature