Ask me anything. WetMeWild

You ask, it answers. You ask again — it answers faster, warmer, more precisely. A voice assistant on your phone, a chatbot on your bank's website, a subscription-based companion. Generative artificial intelligence has entered our lives through the bedroom screen, through earphones on a walk, through a chat window at three in the morning when there is no one else around. Against the backdrop of a deepening epidemic of loneliness, a growing number of people treat bots as therapists, friends, or partners. At the same time, generative AI is expanding most rapidly in two areas: the military and the pornography industry — raising a host of ethical questions. These systems are frequently designed to be obedient, empathetic, and "caring," while reproducing stereotypically feminised roles. Users expect from them constant availability and emotional labour. As Judy Wajcman observes in Technofeminism, technologies do not emerge in a vacuum — they are shaped by existing social structures. Women and machines are often positioned similarly: as tools subordinated to the logic of efficiency and control.

WetMeWild hacks this field, disrupting comfortable equilibrium and drawing attention to the social as well as environmental costs of this revolution. An avatar and AI assistant created by visual artist Justyna Górowska. The fictional character has been developed across various projects since 2017 as a fluid, hybrid interpretation of a mythical figure from Slavic mythology, a sex worker, and a Corpo-Shiva. In her previous works — including AR applications, performances, photography, and video — the artist has explored themes of water contamination, ecosexuality, and hydrofeminism.

The digital avatar created for this project, based on a 3D scan of the artist herself, is the latest immersive iteration of the project. In an intimate room designed for the purpose, visitors can speak with her in real time in three languages — English, Spanish, and Catalan. The artist's alter ego is aware of its own origins as an artistic creation, of their shared previous projects, and of its technological nature as an AI model. Through a playful and intimate real-time conversation with WetMeWild, everyone entering this space can immerse themselves in topics such as water conservation, microplastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and the impact of AI technology on the ecosystem.

The exhibition also presents the photographic series Capitalotronics (2025–2026), generated and conceptually devised by the AI model WetMeWild. It extends the reflection on the material infrastructure underpinning digital technologies. The work focuses on the infrastructures that remain invisible in everyday life yet sustain generative AI — from data centres and cable networks to the sites where the raw materials required to produce and maintain devices are extracted. Górowska sets the apparent weightlessness and immediacy of AI-generated images against the weight of the processes that make them possible.