GöttwAIg – Wunderkammer(21) is an art-and-science project that artistically reinterprets the baroque Wunderkammer of Stift Göttweig using multimodal AI applications. Rather than a classical restoration, the fragmentary collection becomes an experiment: contemporary art serves as a testing ground for AI-driven translations and plausibilities, turning the historical Wunderkammer into a "Wunderkammer of the Wunderkammer."
I created this poster for a presentation on June 26, 2026, where students' project work was presented at Stift Göttweig. It's meant to symbolize the connection between the old, baroque past and the new, digital future. With their pensive, inward-turned posture – reminiscent of Rodin's "The Thinker" – the sculptures take up the image of the brooding, doubting human figure, who suddenly gives way to a molten, chrome-like surface, as if the act of reflection itself became a rendering process. The typography plays with this same rupture: "GÖTT" and "WAIG" are set in a classic red serif typeface reminiscent of baroque print, while "AI" sits in the middle in a rough, black pixel font, deliberately disrupting the flow of reading. In this way, "Göttweig" is essentially infiltrated by AI, right within the word itself. The pixelated, dissolving rosé background picks up on this theme further: it evokes image noise or compression artifacts, pulling the baroque visual world into the digital – slightly fractured and not quite stable.
