Almostland

The project is the outcome of educational and cultural cooperation among the Visegrad countries. Participating students attended Images, Culture and AI: A Critical Making Studio, a course offered by the Heritage in Motion Lab at the MOME Research Centre and led by Dr Brigitta Iványi-Bitter during the spring semester of 2026. Bringing together students from different disciplines and national backgrounds, the course combined artistic practice with critical research. The exhibition emerged from this collaborative process as a means of making the limitations and inaccuracies of AI-generated imagery more accessible and perceptible to wider audiences.

The curatorial team consists of students from Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, while the exhibition features works by Czech, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian and other international artists.

Among the exhibited works is a series of embroidered images by Zsófia Szász, based on found photographs and their AI-generated reconstructions. Panna Csombók's dysfunctional baseball cap can be encountered in the Gift Shop. Presented exclusively in the online exhibition, Jiří Phillipe Janda's AI-generated video I Had a Pretty Good Childhood constructs a fictional narrative around the immediate surroundings of the university in Ústí nad Labem. Karolina Chandler's Family Atlas explores nostalgia associated with home and the unsettling boundary between reality and fiction. Klaudie Kirvelová's works, also presented in the online exhibition, examine how artificial intelligence transforms our perceptions of traditional Czech folk costumes and cultural heritage. Meanwhile, Marcus Lister's three-legged stork offers a playful alternative to even the most ambitious national branding campaigns.

The initiative demonstrates how international collaboration in higher arts education can give rise to research-driven exhibition projects addressing contemporary questions at the intersection of technology, culture and heritage.
Natiömel Mušelm of Almostland also represents an outstanding achievement by MOME students, who contributed not only as artists but also as curators, researchers, exhibition organisers and designers. The project thus exemplifies an approach to arts education grounded in artistic research and international collaboration.

Course Instructor and Curatorial Mentor
Dr Brigitta Iványi-Bitter, PhD, MOME

Exhibiting Artists
Anežka Majdišová (SK), Hugo Rayman (SK), Jiří Phillipe Janda (CZ), Klaudie Kirvelová (CZ), Rafani (CZ), Tereza Jobová (CZ), Tereza Spálenková (CZ), Karolina Chandler (PL), Zuzanna Wudarska (PL), Arnoldas Sliuzevicius (LT) – MOME, Panna Csombók (HU) – MOME. Gergő Gethe (HU) – MOME, Zsófia Szász (HU) - MOME, Zsófia Kérdy – Evu Szabó (HU), Marcus Lister (EN) – MOME

Curatorial Team
Kateřina Benešová (CZ) – FUD UJEP, Nikol Hašková (CZ) – FUD UJEP, Olga Hochmanová (CZ) – FUD UJEP, Patrycja Ignaczak (PL), Panna Csombók (HU) – MOME, Zsófia Szász (HU)-MOME

Exhibition Production
Zsófia Szász (HU) – MOME

Credits

Special thanks to Virág Braun (MOME ANIM) for her contribution to shaping the initial concept during the course
Graphic Design: Ave Sophia (Evu Szabó, Zsófia Kérdy)
MOME PFI Project Manager: Zsófia Schmidt
Travel Project Manager: Natália Pass (Research Centre)

Further Information about the Research: https://mome.hu/en/v4-symposium-on-the-cultural-impact-of-ai

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Research questions: ivanyi-bitter@mome.hu