Category: Art Signals


  • Play as Constructive Utopia

    The text is one of four speeches by Bartosz Frąckowiak introducing the subsequent discussion blocks during Signal Forum in Prague in 2024. Play can put us in a state of flow – that condition in which we allow ourselves to become completely immersed in an activity, lose track of time, and effortlessly discover next steps,…

  • Into the Universe: Space as a Field of Radical Speculation

    The text is one of four speeches by Bartosz Frąckowiak introducing the subsequent discussion blocks during Signal Forum in Prague in 2024. The cosmos has always been a mirror of human imagination. But today, more than ever, it has become an arena where two fundamentally different visions of the future collide. Gravitational Waves and Fluid…

  • Machinery Missionaries: A Journey Beyond the Valley

    The text is one of four speeches by Bartosz Frąckowiak introducing the subsequent discussion blocks during Signal Forum in Prague in 2024. Let us begin with a provocative hypothesis: while AI appears to be a breakthrough in modern technology and promises to stimulate transformations in many domains, it paradoxically reinforces existing power structures rather than…

  • Deep Travelers: Journeys into Earth, Matter, and Time

    The text is one of four speeches by Bartosz Frąckowiak introducing the subsequent discussion blocks during Signal Forum in Prague in 2024. Travel has often been a narrative of conquest: of land, space, oceans, and now, increasingly, of time and data. Discovery in order to exploit and extract. When we think of travel, we often…