Galleri KiT, NTNU / 12. APRIL – 31. MAI 2026
Åpning: 12. april, kl.18.00
Kuratorer: Alex Murray-Leslie, Annett Busch
Stochastic Dreams [2026]
Ayodele Arigbabu in collaboration with Martinus Suijkerbuijk.
Stochastic Dreams is an interactive installation that weaves the accumulated memory of individual choices into collective visions of possible futures. The installation invites the audience to participate in ‘social dreaming’ by affecting the memory of previous choices made by others while attempting to influence an unfolding future through their own choices.
Visitors engage with the installation via a LUBI (Lukasa Board Interface), a tactile console inspired by Lukasa boards – memory boards used historically by the Luba people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Participants place “keyword beads” representing utopia-centric factors on a patterned grid, with their spatial arrangement activating nodes that modulate a suspended pendulum’s swing above a radial mapping of utopian factors.
The pendulum’s path; shaped by user inputs, session history, and chaotic motion, serves as an oracle, borrowing from Yoruba cosmological notions such as the dramaturgy in Ifá divination practices, and Àṣẹ – the generative power of words. Algorithms process trajectories to spawn evolving narratives, blending ritual play with AI-mediated speculation. Each session adds to a cumulative archive of social dreaming, visualising how priorities coexist, conflict, or harmonize amid uncertainty.
Stochastic Dreams is created as a part of the artistic research project by Ayodele Arigbabu titled ‘Forward Remembrance: Exploring Latent Utopias’, and is built in collaboration with Martinus Suijkerbuijk, as part of a mutually shared artistic exploration of the tangible and intangible dynamics of generative AI and its potential and implications for society.
The work mirrors – through conceptual metaphors – oscillation between competing values, and the traversal of latent spaces in neural networks, through audio-visual, tactile, and kinetic elements of the installation. It invites collective rehearsal of futures, questioning algorithmic determinism and human imagination in an AI-shaped world. Stochastic Dreams is both game and ceremony, a space to witness value functions in motion and the unpredictable poetry of shared speculation.
Ayodele Arigbabu [NG/NO]
Ayodele Arigbabu is a writer, architect, and creative technologist. His work explores the interfaces where design, art, and evolving technologies intercept, with speculation as a recurrent strategy.
He is the publisher and editor of LAGOS_2060, an anthology of science fiction from Africa, published in 2013, and was curator of African Futures: Lagos, the Lagos edition of a festival on diverse future perspectives of the African continent, produced by Goethe Institut in three African Cities in 2015.
He is currently a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, where his Forward Remembrance project explores latent utopias through the diverse ways in which artificial intelligence mirrors human aspirations
Martinus Suijkerbuijk [NL/NO]
Martinus Suijkerbuijk is an artist and researcher focused on the cultural and social-political implications of artificial intelligence. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. He holds a PhD in artistic research and has nearly a decade of experience in a wide range of AI-focused artistic projects and presentations.
Suijkerbuijk’s work critically and creatively explores how AI technologies can serve as tools for cultural imagination and counter capitalist ideologies of technologies and their impact on society.
His international presentations at institutions such as ZKM, V2_, and Meta.Morf, and CHI 2018, alongside a robust network of interdisciplinary collaborators, reflect his ability to bridge technical and creative domains.
