The Human Interface

The Human Interface is an exhibition curated by Anika Meier (The Second-Guess) for Rome New Media Week, bringing together works by Elisabeth Sweet and Tendrela (AI), Leah Schrager, Marine Bléhaut, Tamiko Thiel, and Franziska Ostermann. Through moving image, poetry, voice, and AI-generated media, the exhibition explores how our relationships to one another, to our bodies, and to ourselves are shaped by the interfaces we inhabit. What does it mean to remain human when our thoughts, memories, language, and images are increasingly mediated by technology? Rather than treating artificial intelligence as its subject, The Human Interface explores the spaces where human experience meets computational systems, and where neither remains unchanged. The works in the exhibition examine moments of transformation: a word co-created by humans and AI enters lived experience (Elisabeth Sweet); a photograph becomes the starting point for an image that exceeds its origin (Leah Schrager); an artificial companion accompanies grief (Marine Bléhaut); the body becomes ritual and myth (Tamiko Thiel); identity persists through voices, memories, and collective care (Franziska Ostermann). Each work approaches the interface not as a boundary between human and machine, but as a site of encounter, negotiation, and imagination.