Weronika Gęsicka

Editors used to place erroneous entries in encyclopaedias for copyright reasons. These far-fetched definitions enabled them to legally prove cases of plagiarism by competitors. For Encyclopædia, awarded an Honourable Mention Broncolor Light Prize by the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2023/2024, Weronika Gęsicka used artificial intelligence software to give these made-up terms a photographic dimension. She searched for these words in various publications and then submitted the descriptions to algorithms and repeated the process over and again until she obtained strange depictions. Somewhat like a cabinet of curiosities, the Encyclopædia installation connects the historical expertise in these volumes with the challenges AI poses regarding copyrights and the dissemination of knowledge.