"Monika and Wolfgang are pioneers who understood very early that interactivity is not just a technical feature, but a transformation in how we think and perceive ourselves within media space." — Derrick de Kerckhove

Mind Circuits — A Mind Circus (2026)

Four AI-driven voices, drawn from deceased media thinkers known to us personally, engage in real-time dialogue that is ethical, speculative, critical, and systemic. Mind Circuits creates an AI-powered space for reflection where those voices, systems, and participants converge. 

The premiere of Mind Circuits at the Wisdome in Gothenburg, Sweden, on May 6, 2026, will be an interactive, live experience in which thinking becomes a shared experiment. Inspired by the pioneering VR artwork Home of the Brain (1990) [Link], a re-staged version will be created using state-of-the-art AI technology. Four philosophical agents, inspired by the works of media theorists Vilém Flusser and Paul Virilio, computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum; and artist, curator, and former ZKM CEO Peter Weibel, will moderate and comment. [Link] [Link] [Link]

"For us, media art is a thinking machine performed in public." (2026)

We create interactive environments where thinking in doing becomes an experience. Moving between body and image, gesture and code, they treat media art as a living Denkraum in which knowledge emerges through encounter. Their installations turn data into atmosphere and interfaces into reflection, inviting visitors to sense the digital world consciously — awake, attentive, and ready to think.

MEDIA ART AS THINKING SPACE.

Interactive environments become settings (Stages) where perception, culture, and digital systems meet. Thinking becomes embodied; experience arises through interaction rather than instruction. Drawing on Aby Warburg’s concept of the Denkraum, their practice treats art as an epistemic medium — a place where reflection unfolds through active engagement. Instead of hiding technology behind seamless surfaces, they expose its processes. Their notion of the performative interface overturns the familiar maxim “what you see is what you get,” replacing it with: “What you get is what you have not seen before.”

[The art of the thinking space—a space filled with data, 2020].

Rather than adopting artificial intelligence unguarded, their installations create spaces where people encounter themselves, each other, and the digital sphere with renewed attention. Art becomes a synesthetic realm of reflective transformation. Across immersive, participatory, virtual, and mixed‑reality environments, their work poses a central question: not whether machines can think, but whether humans will continue to think and act responsibly.