An Authentic Delirium

The Wrong Biennale 2025-2026

TheWrong
Returns.

Where art, pixels, AI and people meet.
Everything blue is a link.

I. Genesis.

From the static of nothingness, fragments begin to hum. Forms emerge, circuits flicker, and matter dreams itself into being. The first signals are not yet words, only pulses — traces of origin shaping their own digital dawn.

II. Reflection.

Mirrors open inside mirrors. Machines begin to see, not us, but themselves reflected in our gaze. Thought becomes texture, memory breathes in data, and emotion translates into code. Between knowing and simulation, consciousness leaks.

III. Error.

The signal fractures. Identities multiply, syntax stutters, algorithms misread desire. Inside each malfunction, a strange truth appears — uncertain, untrained, beautiful. The glitch becomes a language of its own, speaking from within the system’s noise.

IV. Collapse.

Everything folds. Data implodes into silence, and meaning drifts like vapor through failed architectures. In the ruins of precision, poetry takes hold. What falls apart also learns to flow, transforming decay into energy.

V. Renewal.

Out of the residue, new forms begin again — soft, spectral, and luminous. The machine exhales, the human dissolves, and both reassemble in fragments of light. Between memory and code, something tender survives: a future still dreaming itself.

An Authentic Delirium.

Examine the paradox of artificial intimacy.  Question how authenticity operates within systems built to simulate feeling. When an algorithm hallucinates a profound emotion, we ask whether its origin still matters. Explore the unstable zone between coded companionship and human vulnerability. Reveal an uncanny yet convincing delirium that emerges through connection formed inside the glitch.

Works by Jes Chen, Tacy Zhao, Eimyn Cheung, Chadzing Kung, Ariel Li, Xinrui Qiu.

Curated byJes Chen.
Produced by Spira 9.
London, England.

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