Manifesto

To explore these questions and share our thoughts, we turned to contemporary art — a way to show the changes happening around us and ask the most important questions.

We invited 11 artists to take part in a two-week art residency at Yandex, where they explored how neural networks “think,” make “mistakes,” and see the world — and turned these ideas into art. The final exhibition featured 10 works in different styles and formats, shown at the New Tretyakov Gallery.

A special part of the exhibition was the interactive sculpture data.relic, created together with the art group SPLACES.STUDIO. It’s a stone whose surface was carved by sandblasting machines based on people’s choices: the left side represented votes for humans, and the right — for neural networks. The shape of the sculpture changed in real time, showing the collective interaction between people and technology. data.relic became a true artifact of our era — a physical trace of our reflections on who creates whom: do we shape neural networks, or do they shape us?