Optimal Brain Damage

Paul Feigelfeld, Optimal Brain Damage, 2025. Lecture documentation, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, as part of Vienna Digital Cultures, 2025. Courtesy: Autotelic Foundation

A lecture at Vienna Digital Cultures cuts through the soporific fog of “optimization” semantics to uncover AI-thoritarianism’s rising bid for power.



Vienna Digital Cultures is a new festival for art, performance, and discourse on the cultural impact of digital technologies. Its first edition, “Model Collapse,” was curated by Nadim Samman and jointly organized by FOTO ARSENAL WIEN and Kunsthalle Wien in May 2025.

This video was produced by Autotelic Foundation, a key partner of VDC 2025.

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