Has AI solved desire? Does “protocol art” yet exist? Is collaboration with machines tantamount to theft? And is everything really computer? Closing Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026, writer & filmmaker Morgane Billuart, artist-researcher Christopher Dake-Outhet, and critic Dean Kissick convened to discuss the new image – in slop and in dark forests, as network and as performance – moderated by Spike editor-at-large Adina Glickstein.

Stay tuned for audio and start getting answers with a copy of Spike’s Spring 2026 issue, on sale online and in select book and magazine shops worldwide.

Sunday, 3 May 2026
Doors: 5.30pm; Start: 6pm
Julia Stoschek Foundation
Leipziger Str. 60, 10117 Berlin

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MORGANE BILLUART is a French writer and filmmaker whose work navigates the intersection of critical inquiry and narrative practice.

CHRISTOPHER DAKE-OUTHET is a Berlin-based researcher working across contemporary art, emerging technology, and infrastructural anxiety.

DEAN KISSICK is a writer and contributing editor at Spike. His work is published in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, and the Drift, and short fiction in Civilization and Heavy Traffic.

ADINA GLICKSTEIN is an editor-at-large at Spike, where she writes the monthly tech column “User Error.”