Dorian Batycka (Poland)

The project interrogates how proliferating images, data traces, and AI-generated content fabricate visual economies at scale, producing value, attention, and belief in an increasingly dystopian world. It mobilizes memes, short-form video, AI image generators, and bot-assisted posting strategies to expose how images circulate through algorithmic silos—feeds, closed groups, encrypted chats—where they are scraped, categorized, and redeployed as political and commercial assets. Rather than illustrating these histories didactically, the pavilion embeds its critique inside the same attention economies it examines, leaking speculative campaigns, counter-memes, and “refusal-images” into the platforms that structure everyday seeing.

Dorian Batycka (b. 1985) is a Polish-Canadian art critic, curator, and writer whose work links contemporary art, technology, and politics across Europe, the Middle East, and North America. He often positions himself at the threshold between writing and exhibition-making, using both text and display to interrogate power, mediation, and spectatorship in contemporary art.