Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst’s Starmirror (2025), a new immersive sound installation created with sub architects, transforms Berlin’s KW Institute for Contemporary Art into a training ground for a public choral dataset. During recording sessions, choirs sing from an AI-generated songbook based on a morality play by medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen. “We see analogies between her celestial hierarchy and the stack of influential protocols that determine our culture,” the duo notes.

Framed as a full-on spiritual encounter, Seoul Mediacity Biennale’s 13th edition explores mystical traditions. The flagship exhibition “Séance: Technology of the Spirit” at Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) features artists past and present who ”bridge material and immaterial worlds” including Joseph Beuys, Johanna Hedva, Haroon Mirza, and Angela Su. Conceived as a séance, the show moves beyond the ”neoliberal conception of biennial exhibitions,” according to the artistic directors (all from e-flux).”