"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]

"To us, Interactive Art is a Thinking Machine performed in public". (2026)

We create interactive environments in which the experience of thinking while doing is realized. Moving between body and image, gesture and code, we treat media art as a living Denkraum (thinking space), in which knowledge emerges through encounter. Our installations transform data into atmosphere and interfaces into reflection. They invite visitors to consciously perceive the digital realm — awake, attentive, and ready to think.

MEDIA ART AS THINKING SPACE

Interactive environments are settings in which perception, culture, and digital systems intermingle. Thinking becomes embodied, and experience arises through interaction rather than instruction. Drawing on Aby Warburg’s concept of the Denkraum, we treat art as an epistemic medium — a place where reflection unfolds through active engagement. Instead of concealing technology behind seamless surfaces, they reveal 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 embracing artificial intelligence unguarded, our installations create spaces where people encounter themselves, each other, and the digital realm with renewed attention. Art becomes a synesthetic sphere of reflective transformation. In our immersive, participatory, virtual, and mixed-reality environments, we pose a fundamental question: Will humans continue to think and act responsibly, or will machines take over?