On November 6, we brought The New Human to Berlin, hosted by our friends at SCHOKOLADE Filmproduktion, for an evening exploring one provocative question:

Is It Art or Artificial?

A question that sounds simple, until you start thinking about it.

Can AI-generated work be art? Does the creative process matter more than the result? Where does the artist end and the machine begin? And hasn’t art always been a little artificial?

We didn’t expect everyone to agree. That was part of the fun!

What made the evening special wasn’t finding the right answer. It was seeing artists, technologists, designers, and curious minds come together, share their perspectives, challenge ideas, and discover new ways of thinking about creativity.

That’s what CODAME ART+TECH has always been about.

The art, the artists, and the conversations

Throughout the evening, we explored different approaches to art and technology, from generative and computational art to AI-assisted filmmaking and interactive experiences.

A huge thank you to all the artists who shared their work and creativity, including: Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Darius Ramazani, Florian Rederer and the other wonderful artists who contributed to the Berlin program. Among the works featured:

• ABANDON SIGHT BRUTALIST, by MOOR gianluca balocco, exploring impermanence, architecture, and perception through AI-assisted moving images.

• Magni-Fire, by Matteo and Zeo Zhang, born during our 2026 creative hackathon and continuing to evolve beyond its original creation.

• Elsewhere generative and computational works by katsukokoiso.ai, presented through ARTEX Display.

• More creative explorations from artists connected through ARTEX and the Print Club Program

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Each work brought a different perspective. Some challenged how we think about authorship. Others invited us to reconsider the relationship between the human imagination and the technologies we create.

And perhaps that’s the beauty of it.

Thank you to everyone who made Berlin possible

Events like this don’t happen on their own. They happen because people believe in bringing creativity, technology, and communities together.

A very special thank you to the entire SCHOKOLADE Filmproduktion team, for welcoming CODAME to Berlin and helping create such a wonderful space for artists and conversations.

To creAtIva, our collaborators and supporters, thank you for contributing to this international exchange of ideas and creativity.

To every artist who participated, shared their work, brought something new, or helped make the evening possible: thank you for trusting us with your creativity.

And to everyone who attended, thank you for bringing your curiosity, questions, perspectives, and energy.

Whether you came to discover new art, meet other creatives, discuss AI, or simply see what was happening, you made the evening what it was.

We are grateful to everyone working behind the scenes, helping with installations, technology, communication, and all the small details that make these gatherings possible.

CODAME has always been about the people, and Berlin reminded us once again why we started this journey.

Well, maybe we don’t need to agree on the answer just yet.

The conversations were real. The connections were real. And the creativity was very much alive.

Thank you, Berlin. Thank you to our artists, partners, supporters, volunteers, and everyone who joined us.

Keeping the art alive with ARTEX

Next stop: Shanghai! 🇨🇳

The New Human journey continues!

After Milan, San Francisco, and Berlin, we’re looking forward to bringing our ART+TECH community together again in Shanghai on December 12, 2026.

If you’re in Shanghai, we’d love to see you there.

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We can’t wait to create more together. And we’re excited to see where artists take it next.

With love and gratitude,

CODAME ART+TECH 💜

Exploration over perfection. Collaboration and community. Creativity for everyone.

On Thursday evening, Gianluca Balocco will be in a darkened room on the third floor of a building in central Milan, where an image changes so slowly you only notice if you stay. On Friday evening, one of his works will be running in a Berlin film studio, in a room full of artists discussing about whether AI makes art at all.

M.O.O.R. stands for Mind Opens Our Reality. It is the name Balocco (Verona, 1964) has worked under for more than forty years as an artist, architect and self-described techno-humanist. This week the name turns up in two cities and two very different rooms. Both ask the same question.

5 November, Milan: Abandon Sight

Abandon Sight is Balocco’s solo show at BUILDING(third floor), , via Monte di Pietà 23, 20121 Milan, curated by Serena Tabacchi. Opening Thursday, November 5, 2026, 17:00–20:30 until 5 December 2026.

The show starts from antique tapestries and carpets in the Moshe Tabibnia Collection. Balocco reads their weaves, symmetries and worn patches as a store of memory, then turns them into chromolographic prints, light devices, moving image, sculpture and works that respond to whoever is looking at them. Uncertain shapes come out of the old textiles: hollows, empty faces, figures somewhere between a relic and a thought.

The title is not about giving up on seeing. It is about letting go of seeing on autopilot.

• Abandon Sight – Impermanence Insight (2026) greets you at the door. It is an electronic canvas that changes over almost five hours, too slowly to catch at a glance.

• The4thDimension – Transland (2025), shown in this configuration for the first time in Italy, uses eye tracking to watch you while you watch it. How your gaze moves decides which of tens of thousands of possible images appears. Those images come from thousands of Balocco’s own photographs of Italian landscapes, reworked into visions of the same places five hundred years from now.

• Oracle (2026) answers each visitor with a response drawn from their own experience of the show.

6 November, Berlin: The New Human

The next evening, CODAME brings The New Human to Berlin. Friday, November 6, 2026, doors 18:00 at SCHOKOLADE, as part of The New Human @ Berlin

The question of the night is direct: is AI art, or is it artificial? Artists, technologists and designers will talk, show work and look at the question together, with art on the walls and running live on ARTEX Display.

M.O.O.R. is part of the line-up with two works:

• ABANDON SIGHT BRUTALIST, a multimedia experience from M.O.O.R.’s long research into Impermanence, in which brutalist architecture dissolves and rebuilds itself into an unstable field of perception. Photography, image processing, sound and, in part, AI come together in it.

• DIGITAL THINK, on the unstable line between a human gesture and a machine that watches, reads and anticipates it.

The thread between them

The same experience is in both cities. In Milan, Abandon Sight – Brutalist sits inside the installation, with RobinG’s sound, among antique textiles and slow light. In Berlin it unfolds in a room built for debate. One work is lived two ways, one night apart.

That is the link this week. Milan asks you to stop seeing on autopilot. Berlin asks what art becomes when the tools change. Balocco answers both rooms with forty years of practice. He calls it “hybrid thinking”: photography, drawing, observation of the real, digital processing, algorithmic layering and, more recently, AI all serve one line of research, and none of them is the goal of the work. The photograph, the carpet, the landscape and the person looking come first. Every tool, old or new, is there to change how they are seen.

Milan in the afternoon, Berlin the next evening: it is a short flight, and it is worth taking.

Plan your week

Abandon Sight · M.O.O.R. — Gianluca Balocco BUILDING TERZO PIANO, Via Monte di Pietà 23, 20121 Milan Opening: Thursday 5 November 2026, 17:00–20:30 On view to 5 December 2026, Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00–19:00 RSVP for the opening:

Join us in Milan

The New Human @ Berlin SCHOKOLADE Filmproduktion, Rosenthaler Straße 34–35, 10178 Berlin Friday 6 November 2026, doors at 18:00 Conversation “Is AI Art or Artificial?”, 19:00–20:00 Details and registration:

Join us in Berlin

With thanks

This week works because two houses opened their doors to the same artist and let the work travel between them.

Thank you to BUILDING, and to Moshe Tabibnia, whose collection is where Abandon Sight begins, for giving M.O.O.R. the third floor and the time a slow work needs. Thank you to Serena Tabacchi for curating it.

Thank you to SCHOKOLADE for bringing and hosting The New Human to Berlin and making room for M.O.O.R. in the conversation.

And thank you to MOOR gianluca balocco, who has spent four decades showing that a photograph can be a place you walk into.

Milan, then Berlin. See you there.

Original article published on: https://codame.com/art/m-o-o-r-in-milan-and-berlin-the-same-week

Since we opened The New Human on March 6, we haven’t stood still: events, hackathons and meetups in Milan, San Francisco and beyond, with artists, technologists and designers finding new ways to think, feel and create together.

And now you can join us in Berlin 💜

Join Us

CODAME has explored every kind of art since 2010, and technology-generated art has been part of the story from day one. Now AI is changing how art is made, seen and understood. What is changing? What are the threats? Which horizons are opening? And how much art is there in artificial intelligence? One evening, in one room, to look and talk it through.

Who is in the room

A chat with Andreas Nicolas Fischer , Darius Ramazani and CODAME co-founder Bruno Fonzi, moderated by Florian Rederer from SCHOKOLADE. Their work will be experience throuthou the event live on ARTEX Display, alongside with Magni-Fire Mapping by Matteo and Zeo Zhang, and Katsukokoiso.ai work Elsewhere art work born in collaboration at the hackathon of the ART+TECH Festival 2026, along with MOOR Gianluca Balocco ABANDON SIGHT BRUTALIST architecture dissolving and regenerating.

Before you arrive

Look up at Stuttgarter Platz in Charlottenburg, Berlin. There’s a billboard for the evening up there, printed by Darius Ramazani.

The billboard belongs to whoever walks past. Your photographs are how it keeps changing, and that is the idea behind The New Human.

Take a photo in front of it, alone, with friends, or just the billboard itself, and send it our way. Tag @CODAME on Instagram. We’ll share the best shots 📸

What we raise a glass to

ARTEX providing organizations the foundation to run art programs of any kind, and artists the tools to publish their practice, get surfaced to collectors and venues, and keep what they earn.

Print Club, CODAME’s collectible art program: a way for living art to find a place in the world and stay with us.

Experience the art and hear the Artists thoughts with a drink in hand🥂

Welcome to SCHOKOLADE. Art. Life. Live.

Mentioned in this article

MOOR gianluca balocco, Bruno Fonzi, Matteo, Zeo Zhang, Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Katsukokoiso.ai

WORKS

Magni-fire mapping, ABANDON SIGHT BRUTALIST, Elsewhere

Originally published on By CODAME.ORG on https://codame.org/art/is-ai-art-of-artifical