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First edition : Pablo Corral Vega and his fantastic bestiary

January 9th - 18th 2025
Pablo Corral Vega’s creatures evolve in silence, carrying an ineffable mystery—the mystery of a birth generated by Artificial Intelligence. Their creator has designed their universe in the finest detail. A long list of words defined the roles, settings, postures, shadows, lights, and colors of a sophisticated staging. And he infused them with emotions. A trained lawyer, words are not foreign to him. Nor is the image: for fifteen years, Pablo Corral Vega was a photographer for the prestigious American magazine National Geographic. It was his way of rebelling against the logical and rational world of law, which has now led him to analyze Artificial Intelligence in order to better tame it. Fascinated by the connections between foundational myths, creativity, culture, and technology, Pablo Corral Vega spent a year as an artist-in-residence at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying neuroscience and the human-computer relationship within the highly selective Media Lab. The synthesis that emerged, along with the seismic impact of Artificial Intelligence on our societies, has shaped the series presented at the first edition of Phenomen(IA)l.