Artificial Intuition explores the space between human intuition and algorithmic prediction.
The 30th Videomedeja examines how our sense of the world is formed in an environment in which technology does not merely mediate reality, but actively shapes the way we think, feel, and respond. The theme maps tensions between humans and machines, artistic expression and systemic logic, under conditions of contemporary digital orchestration and global instability.
After three decades of new media development, artistic practices can no longer be separated from technological systems that shape perception, attention, and meaning. Intuition today no longer appears as an isolated inner impulse, but as a process formed through ongoing relations with data, platforms, and algorithmic patterns that organize visibility and experience.
The theme Artificial Intuition raises a question that is simultaneously artistic, philosophical, and social: what happens to human judgment and intuition in a world where algorithmic systems predict behavior, rank information, and model emotional responses? Although shaped within digital infrastructures, intuition cannot be reduced to statistical prediction nor replaced by machine logic. It emerges within a tense in-between space, between experience and calculation, spontaneity and optimization.
In contemporary digital environments, perception is rarely immediate. Technical decisions, often invisible, decisively influence what becomes accessible, relevant, or suppressed. Algorithms do not merely organize information; they generate rhythms of attention, hierarchies of meaning, and emotional registers. Under such conditions, intuition does not disappear, but is transformed, developing through constant dialogue with systems that actively participate in shaping experience.
New media art has explored these shifts for decades, moving away from stable representations and closed art objects toward process-based, relational, and interactive forms. Contemporary artworks increasingly function as systems that respond in real time, incorporate data, and involve audiences in the production of meaning. Within this framework, the artwork becomes a site of encounter between human experience and technological infrastructure.
The broader social context further intensifies these questions. Global crises, information overload, and digital surveillance affect the formation of collective worldviews and the sense of reality itself. Intuition thus becomes a matter of trust and autonomy: how can personal insight be distinguished from systemically generated suggestions, and whom do we rely on when making decisions within algorithmically structured environments?
Videomedeja brings together artistic practices that, through video, interactive installations, and extended and hybrid media, explore these tensions and transitions. The focus is on works that critically examine contemporary regimes of perception, collective narratives, and the ways in which technology reshapes experience, responsibility, and autonomy. Artificial Intuition does not offer ready-made answers, but opens a space for artistic inquiry that renders visible the hidden mechanisms of contemporary technological systems and proposes alternative modes of perception and response.
The 30th Videomedeja is both a reflection and a projection: a look back at decades of experimentation and innovation, and an open question addressed to the future. How do we think, feel, and create in a world where intuition is no longer exclusively human, yet not fully artificial?