Expoziția „The deepest are the stars” a Lilianei Mercioiu Popa, prezentată la META Spațiu, transformă covorul tradițional oltenesc într-o hartă poetică a relației dintre om și cosmos. Artista reinterpretează motive geometrice transmise din generație în generație prin instrumente digitale precum automatele celulare, explorând convergența dintre memorie colectivă, știință și intuiție ancestrală. Țesătura devine metaforă cosmică, un spațiu unde tradiția, tehnologia și contemplarea vizuală se întâlnesc. Expoziția, susținută de Universitatea Politehnica Timișoara și Facultatea de Arte și Design – UVT, reafirmă abordarea multidisciplinară și experimentală a artistei.

Lumi is a visual essay by Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka that explores snow, light, and landscape through a speculative synthetic intelligence trained on historical photographic datasets. Blending scientific imaging with climate fiction, the work imagines an AI that travels across time, reinterpreting past and future landscapes as part of a hypothetical restoration project. In conversation with Marco Ferrari, the artists reflect on how technological mediation—from early surveying to satellite imaging—shapes our perception of terrain, revealing landscape as a dynamic interplay between natural forces, human presence, and machine vision.

Polish artist Goshka Macuga’s collaboration with Miu Miu for the Spring–Summer 2025 show turned the runway into a fictional printing press for The Truthless Times, a newspaper of provocative headlines that blurred fact and fiction. Known for exploring authorship and information systems, Macuga extended themes from her earlier “Tales and Tellers” project with Miu Miu. Her set design framed Miuccia Prada’s collection of hybrid classic–experimental silhouettes, while the collaboration as a whole questioned truth, media, and the narratives shaping contemporary perception.

Romanian filmmaker Mihai Dragolea previews his forthcoming documentary on the Romanian forest mafia—a project built on perilous field recordings that expose criminal networks and systemic corruption. Known for his advocacy for environmental and animal justice, Dragolea also recently premiered his short film Brisca (2024) at Timișoara’s Taifas Balkan Film and Culture Festival, recounting the haunting 1957 tale of Maria Beluș and the wolf believed by locals to be a werewolf.