Niet Normaal INT

Niet Normaal INT (NNI) is a Dutch foundation that creates large exhibitions on the topics of Art and Technology, founded by curator and activist Ine Gevers.

Participating artists included Olafur Eliasson, Peter Fend, Fischli & Weiss, Natalie Jeremijenko, Marjetica Potrc, Tinkebell and Ai Weiwei.

Visitors could design their own pet, open a bee savings account, create new coral reefs, and taste ant eggs and grilled seagulls.

[16] Works included Annelies, Looking For Completion – a crying, human-like robot by art duo L.A. Raeven, an AI-robot in the form of a pink kitten that narrated a possible future history of the world created by Pinar Yoldas; and HellYeahWeFuckDie by artist Hito Steyerl – after the most popular words in American pop songs – with video footage of high-tech companies testing out robots that fall and stumble.

(Im)possible Bodies offered a virtual experience through augmented realities with (ro)bots, 3D artworks, panel discussions, performances, and live musical shows.

Virtual artworks include an AR dance performance by self-proclaimed cyborg Redo Ait Chitt, gut microbes inspired facial prostheses by Valerie Daude and collages of monstrous female bodies by photographer Viviane Sassen.

Musician and cyborg Neil Harbisson developed a technique that allowed visitors to hear colors, starting to sing when users composed in the virtual space.

As part of Rotterdam Art Week, Fake Me Hard was situated in the former harbor warehouse AVL Mundo, by Atelier van Lieshout.

Works of over 40 artists confronted viewers with meditations on algorithms, (dis)information, artificial intelligence, technology, deep fakes, and populism.

Curated by Ine Gevers and Kees de Groot, Fake Me Hard framed artificial intelligence and adjacent technologies as ideologically motivated and capable of manipulating every aspect of contemporary life, ranging from which products humans buy to the outcomes of elections.

[20] For the exhibition, artist Rob Voerman created an enormous illuminated tower, The Republic, on which the face of Bill Gates and other main characters from conspiracy theories grinned at visitors.

[23] The exhibition invited visitors to "learn and unlearn, to free their bodies, crack open their preconceived ideas, and unleash the power of eroticism".