A three-day gathering of artists, technologists, policymakers, filmmakers, and cultural practitioners exploring how AI is reshaping memory, community, creativity, and human connection. Emerging from five taster sessions shaped around questions of how we remember, think, and connect in an age of machine intelligence, the Assembly brings together immersive installations, conversations, and workshops that open space for collective reflection, learning, and shared inquiry into the evolving relationship between humans and AI.

G5A, Mozilla Foundation and Berggruen Institute invite technologists and cultural practitioners to engage in the evolving relationship between humans and AI to learn, reflect, and build a space for shared inquiry for the future.

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Schedule:

12 to 7 PM

Transresistance: Lost Transmissions

an immersive installation

Through light, sound, and electronic ephemera, the G5A Black Box is transformed into a vestibule for pause, reflection, and exploration. A collision of the tactile and tangible with souvenirs of technology and automation, with friction swirling all around us.

Transresistance is an echo from the past and a gateway into the future.

2 to 3 PM

Who's Cooking? Taste, Memory, and the Algorithms Between Us

Food is one of the most fundamental sites of human intelligence. Encoded in intuition, muscle memory, grandmother’s recipes, and agricultural knowledge passed on across generations. It is also increasingly a playground for computational systems: AI-designed flavour profiles, smart agriculture platforms, algorithmically curated diets, robot kitchens, etc. We ask a deceptively simple question - what does itellignece: human or artificial - actually know about taste? What happens when these two worlds meet? We bring together researchers, chefs and food advocates whose work sits at this exact intersection. People who have experimented with AI, study food as a political and cultural system.

4 to 7 PM

Workshop | Bodies, vision, and new tangibilities by Dhruv Saxena

What does a recorded body still carry? A dancer captured on film in 1910, a protester marching through a city square, a child learning sign language: these recordings hold movements that have not yet finished meaning. This workshop is an invitation to find out what happens when we give those movements somewhere new to go. Over three days, participants (artists, technologists, curious people from either direction) work through a shared pipeline built in TouchDesigner, using tools including MediaPipe, YOLO, GPT, and Teachable Machine. No prior experience with these tools is required. Willingness and curiosity will be enough. We begin with an archive. A curated collection of open-source video footage of human movement: dance performances, protests, sign language practice sessions, folk rituals, athletic training. This archive is our common ground. Participants are encouraged to contribute to it, with the condition that additions carry open licenses that allow creative reuse. Before any code is written or any pipeline is opened, we sit with a question: what does it mean to take this footage, to process it, to make something from it, and then to call that something our own? The ethics of archival reuse, of training data, of whose bodies we are working with and why.

6 PM to 7 PM

Conversation: Film and AI: Rewriting the Frame

A conversation exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping cinematic storytelling, image-making, authorship, and the future of creative labour. Bringing together filmmakers, artists, and technologists, the session reflects on what is gained, altered, or contested as AI enters the processes of filmmaking and visual culture.

8 PM to 9 PM

Circle of Inquiry: What Shall We Become Together?

Closing the Assembly, this collective inquiry invites participants to reflect on shared responsibility, interdependence, and the futures we are building together. Moving beyond prediction toward participation, the conversation considers what it means to imagine human and technological futures collectively.

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