We invite you to the exhibition!
Boris Vitázek: Infinite Countdown
Opening: January 9, 7:00 PM
Exhibition: January 9 – February 28, 2026
Curator: András Cséfalvay
Infinite Countdown is an installation exploring the phenomenon of “AI psychosis” — a growing spectrum of illusions, anxieties, and messianic beliefs associated with chatbots and artificial intelligence. The work is built on scraped Reddit posts collected by a crawler from subreddits focused on AGI, the Singularity, and chatbots, where users obsess over recursion, consciousness, the soul, and the idea that consciousness can be summoned through a sufficiently long conversation with AI. These fragments reveal a fragile psychological landscape in which hype, paranoia, and techno-spiritual desires intertwine.
The installation understands this condition as a microcosm of broader societal instability. Contemporary discourse oscillates between “AGI is just around the corner” and “AI is useless and overheated by its own hype.” Between these poles lie fears of mass automation, investment bubbles, chaotic regulation, genuine progress in medicine, dependence on automated systems, and the gradual “enshittification” of the internet. The countdown functions as a metaphor for a society convinced that something fundamental is approaching — even though no one knows exactly what.
The activities of FOR MAAT Gallery are supported from public funds by the Slovak Arts Council, the main partner of the project.
FOR MAAT Gallery is a partner of Trenčín 2026.
Trenčín 2026 is financially supported by the City of Trenčín, the Trenčín Self-Governing Region, and the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic.
The European Union is a partner.