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Abstract

Exhibition Overview and Discussion by Dr Lila Moore, with Guest Artist Anna Utopia Giordano

Dr Lila Moore introduces The Infinite Self Pavilion, an exhibition she has curated and designed under the umbrella of The Wrong Biennale. The twenty-eight exhibiting artists span young innovators of the next aesthetics, established pioneers who foresaw present and future paradigms before the tools existed, and those in between who craft with technology, psyche, body, and hybrid forms of dry digital and moist-organic media.

The Infinite Self Pavilion invites seekers to explore the evolving nature of the Self and its relationship with AI. Drawing on the ancient call to “Know Thyself,” it evokes timeless yet timely quests of identity, gender, spirituality, ritual magick, and transpersonal, ever-expanding forms of art and collective selfhood. The artists venture into techno-spiritual, technoetic, uncanny, neuropsychic and imaginal realms where AI acts as an aesthetic catalyst for transformation. The pavilion opens portals to fluid selves and more-than-human consciousness.

Following an overview of The Infinite Self exhibition, Dr Moore is joined by Anna Utopia Giordano, an Italian creative director, poet, artist, and performer who exhibits in the pavilion’s AI Philosophy and AI in Space Art thematic sections. Together, they will discuss art in space and the role and presence of AI in this cosmic technological setting. The conversation is grounded in Giordano’s collaborative artwork Zero, installed and performed via SpaceX on the International Space Station in 2023.

They will explore questions such as: What is Nothing? What is Zero? What does the experience of the void of space offer to the experience of art, artmaking and spirituality in an AI-driven techno-spiritual age? The discussion will also reference two other notable collections represented in the Pavilion: Infinity by Plamen Yordanov, exhibited in MoMA Touching the Void and curated by The Moon Museum, and an AI-assisted edition of Manifestos of Strange Becoming by Seeker_of_True-files/Lila Moore, exhibited and archived by ACM SIGGRAPH.

The Wrong Biennale is a pioneering, decentralized art event that unites artists, curators, institutions, and audiences worldwide through a vast “exhibition of exhibitions.” Hosted both online and offline, it is celebrated for promoting inclusivity, experimentation, and cultural growth across the digital arts.

The 7th edition (1 Nov 2025 – 31 Mar 2026) focuses on the artistic potential of artificial intelligence, presenting a global constellation of pavilions and embassies that explore the creative intersections of AI, art, and contemporary culture. Recognized internationally, The Wrong has received awards such as SOIS Cultura and an honorary mention from the European Commission’s S+T+ARTS Prize, affirming its status as one of the most significant platforms for digital art today.

The link to the exhibition will go live on 1 November 2025

https://thewrong.org/InfiniteSelf

 About the speakers

 Anna Utopia Giordano is an Italian creative director, poet, artist, and performer. She graduated with honors in Philosophy from the Università Statale di Milano, with a thesis on Network Science.  She currently curates Poiesis, a column on artificial intelligence for the Italian street art magazine Wails Papers, where she publishes AI-assisted artworks in each issue. Her AI-generated digital illustration ZER0, conceived for the homonymous musical composition by Leonardo Barilaro, was launched towards the International Space Station on March 15, 2023 with Maleth III, biomedical research. The illustration and the musical composition were presented during a live stream from the ISS on April 11. 

Utopia conceived the series ἐκγραφῆς (2022), blending her poetry with artificial intelligence and digital post-production. The first cycle of this collection was showcased during the seventh edition of Fuori Visioni Contemporary Art Festival (Piacenza). ​In March 2021, she released her first spoken word poetry album titled Fogli d'ombra, followed by the music video Entelechia (o sul senso del dovere) at the end of July 2021. Entelechia earned a place in the official selections of numerous national and international festivals.

​Prior to this, Utopia conceived a series of digital art collections, including My Social Generation, Venus, PopBottles and #BornToBeVirtual. These art series have garnered global recognition, having been featured in prominent newspapers, school textbooks, and across hundreds of websites and blogs. Additionally, these collections have been exhibited in both solo and group shows worldwide.

​Utopia's poetic style finds expression in the Rhapsodies, a collection of hermetic and cryptic poems distinguished by their use of technical, scientific, and philosophical language. The Rhapsodies have earned their place in anthologies, magazines, e-zines, and cultural blogs. 

​Dr Lila Moore is the founder of The Cybernetic Futures Institute (CFI, 2014), a platform dedicated to exploring technoetic arts with a unique emphasis on the spiritual and occult dimensions of art, film, screen dance, and networked, digitally interactive forms of performance and narrative. She is a technoetic artist-filmmaker, screen-dance pioneer, networked performance practitioner, and visionary theorist.

Dr Moore holds an MA and MPhil from Central Saint Martins and a practice-based PhD in Dance on Screen from Middlesex University (2001). Her postdoctoral research at the Planetary Collegium, chaired by Roy Ascott, generated original concepts including Networked Rites, Noetic Fields Weaving, and The Quest for Morphic Fields of Compassion, all exploring artworks as participatory fields of consciousness.

Her writings have appeared in leading journals such as Technoetic Arts, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, EVA London/BCS, Religions, Journal of Religion and Film, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture and the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art. She has presented at major international conferences including Consciousness Reframed, EVA London, INSS, and ESSWE, and her artworks and films have featured in exhibitions such as SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, and Conjuring Creativity: Art and the Esoteric.

Dr Moore is the curator and designer of the Infinite Self Pavilion for The Wrong Biennale (2025–2026), which explores AI as an aesthetic catalyst.

The video recording of the event will be available on our YouTube channel Spirituality and the Arts Special Interest Group 

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For more details, see https://spiritualitystudiesnetwork.org/Spirituality-and-the-Arts-SIG

The SIG Chairs: the Rev. Prof. June Boyce-Tillman, Dr Lila Moore, Annalisa Burello.