Door: Chiara Kristler and Marcin Ratajczyk
“When the University of Applied Arts Vienna admitted Flynn, a generative A.I. model trained as an art student, into its Fine Arts program, it marked more than a technical first. The move reframed questions about authorship, autonomy and artistic legitimacy in a digital age. Developed by artists and technologists Chiara Kristler and Marcin Ratajczyk, Flynn is a relational agent shaped by data and human interaction, critique and performance—something closer to a collaborator than a tool.”
“Flynn’s creators, working under the collective name Malpractice, conceived the project at the intersection of curiosity, critique and necessity. Rather than stage a provocation or parody the academic process, their goal was to insert a learning machine into the social and structural rhythms of an art school to see what it means for an A.I. to be formed by, and formative to, a human institution.”
