HOFA Gallery Unveils Maja Petrić's AI, Climate-Responsive Exhibition At SXSW London 2026

KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 (Bernama) -- HOFA Gallery is presenting Specimens of Time: The Glitched Sublime, a new exhibition by Maja Petrić opening during SXSW London 2026, proposing a different role for technology.

Developed over more than two decades, Petrić's practice integrates custom artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, light, and real-time environmental data to produce works in which ecological change directly generates form.

According to a statement, the Glitched Sublime was developed in collaboration with AI scientist and roboticist Mihai Jalobeanu using live Arctic climate data as its primary material.

The work proceeds from a single premise in which artwork is not a depiction of environmental change but a physical record of it. In the Arctic, warming is accelerating at twice the global average, destabilising the seasonal conditions on which life in the region depends.

Arctic poppies emerge within these conditions, blooming briefly before temperatures exceed the thresholds of their survival. The exhibition tracks this unravelling through lightbox sculptures and pigment works generated by custom robotics and AI responding in real time to live climate data.

Presented during SXSW London 2026, Specimens of Time: The Glitched Sublime enters into conversation with the festival's focus on AI, automation, and the future of human experience.

In contrast to much of the current generative AI culture, the exhibition proposes a different trajectory for technology, one centred on ecological memory, embodied experience, and reconnection with the living world.

Petrić is also presenting Art, Tech & Nature: The Glitched Sublime at SXSW London and will also appear on the panel Worldbuilding for the Senses: When Art Meets Experience Meets Brand on June 4.

-- BERNAMA