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2026 - 2027
AIxDESIGN is teaming up with the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands, on an exhibition and program about AI, books & language, open to the public.
Long before neural nets, libraries were the machines we built to organize human knowledge. Broncode puts books made wholly or partly with AI next to artworks that question the technology, and looks behind the magic at the training data, human labor, raw materials and energy AI runs on. What is AI made of, what is it making, and how is it changing the way we write, read, learn, and relate?
It kicks off with a festive opening night on 29 October 2026, followed by three months of talks, workshops and screenings. The exhibition is free and on view at KB in The Hague until 30 January 2027.
URL: Project page on the AIxDESIGN website
TIME: Opening night 29 October 2026 - Exhibition + public program until 30 January 2027
TEAM: Nadia Piet (Creative Lead + Experience Design), Ana Marques (Identity + Graphic Design), Margarita Ryzhakova (Design Support), Tulika Ahuja (Narrative Support), Elena Zaghis (Socials)
PARTNER: KB, National Library of the Netherlands: Rianne Koning (Exhibition Coordination), Steven Claeyssens (Concept + Text), Madeleine van den Berg + Imke Neels (Collection Preparation), Matthijs van der Meulen + Tugba Bahceci (Production), Krijna Kuijt (Marketing), Kris Petrasova (Programming)
OPENING NIGHT HOST: Dymphie Braun
OPENING NIGHT MAKERS: Agustín Martínez Caram, Compiler (Tanya Boyarkina + Oscar Cass-Darweish), Ana Roman, NDA/ (Niki Scheijen + Den Ree)
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Jacob Adler, Cyan Bae, Clarote, Compiler, Computational Mama, Luke Conroy & Anne Fehres, DAIR, Bruce Eesly, Catherine Griffiths, Identity 2.0, Geoffrey Lillemon, Swarna Manjari, Agustín Martínez Caram, Jazmin Morris, Max Park, Nadia Piet, Zeina Saleem, SUPERRR, Tabitha Swanson, Richard Vijgen, Alan Warburton, AIxDESIGN & other makers
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Broncode is open until 30 January 2027. Docs, photos and outputs land here as we go.
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On 29 October 2026 we opened Broncode at the KB with a festival night, 18:00 to 22:00. People built a next-word model out of old Dutch newspapers with Agustín Martínez Caram, made dreamlike collages with Compiler (Tanya Boyarkina + Oscar Cass-Darweish), and danced under two VJ sets: Ana Roman's, built from picture books, old ads and other ephemera from the KB collection, and Machine Music by NDA/ (Niki Scheijen + Den Ree), live-coded techno and visuals on how chips are made. Plus our LLM Tailor, r00ts and Slopsaurus booths and a projection of the Archival Images of AI community gallery, all hosted by programme maker and moderator Dymphie Braun. We might have started a mini rave in the library along the way.
→ The programme as the KB announced it
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Artist talk + workshop
In a short talk, Agustín shared his practice and where he stands on AI, drawing on his doctoral research at Hanze University of Applied Sciences into how participatory art can make AI and data systems perceptible, open to question and open to negotiation.
In the workshop, you build a language model by hand, out of paper. You read Dutch newspapers printed before 1880, from the KB's Delpher collection, through a narrow slot, copy what you see, cut it into word pairs and sort them on a board. Then the machine writes: you draw pairs blind, one after another, and a sentence appears word by word. It is the same task today's language models are built for: predicting the next word. Everything the machine leaves out ends up on two lines across the Atelier window, where it stays for the rest of the exhibition.
No screens, no AI knowledge and no Dutch needed.
About Agustín Martínez Caram is an Argentinian artist, researcher and educator based in Amsterdam. Working with sound, light and computation, he creates immersive audiovisual performances and participatory environments. His projects range from planetary atmospheres translated into light and spatial sound to language models built collectively from paper. His work has been presented at Placemaking Europe, P+ARTS, Media Arts Friesland (LUNA), Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). He is a Professional Doctorate candidate at Hanze University of Applied Sciences and a researcher within Art & Society, where he explores how artistic experience can help people perceive, question and influence the technologies they live with.