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Thank you to everyone who came, interacted, played, laughed, sang, built, painted, and coded! What a party! Did you miss it? Don't worry, here is a summary from the festival.
During Koami Art Festival, Ö-Festen, and GIBCA Extended Ringön, four interactive sculptures were raised — metal, wood, ship parts, old technology mixed with ideas and artificial intelligence. Alongside them, two international video works and three live musical performances expanded the atmosphere.
Teams were created with Koami members. Each team had an artistic leader, a coder, and a group of builders. Together they fulfilled their artistic idea. And here is the result:
A three-by-three-meter steel frame with a hanging abstract head/brain inside.
In Bergmachine, visitors confronted a resurrected presence of Ingmar Bergman. Through a fusion of raw analog technology and generative AI, the artists attempted to summon something more than simulation.
Antique televisions formed the eyes. An old loudspeaker became the mouth. And a computer simulated the brain of Ingmar Bergman.
The work probed power, authorship, vulnerability — and the uneasy magnetism that defined Bergman’s artistic persona. The audience did not merely observe; each conversation completed the piece.
Artists: Gorki Glaser-Müller, Torbjörn Ludvigsen, Hannah Holden, Jens Thoms Ivarsson
A sailor survives a near-death experience and seals his soul into a mast on Ringön. That mast now stands upright, wired, rooted, alive.
Blending myth, vegetation, sound, and digital systems, Sagan om Ringön became a portal between worlds. Visitors connected via QR code to interact with the installation through playing on a synthesizer on their phones. The mast responded with stories, poems, and fragments of memory from its imagined life.
Sometimes it addressed a single person. Sometimes the entire gathering. It might ask you to sing. Or move. Or act together.
Artists: Jimmy Herdberg, Anna Lebar Sanders, Peter Stenkvist, Emma Lundgren, Markus Hasselblom & Cristian Alvarez Murgas
An aging robotic lawnmower drifted slowly across the floor. On its back: a vintage telephone receiver. Lift it, and a private line opened.
Through embedded AI, the machine reflected on usefulness, obsolescence, memory, and quiet longing. It spoke of having once been needed. Of still wanting to be.
A gentle meditation on aging technology, and on ourselves.
Artists: Klaus Lyngeled, Karin Sandin, Mikael Emtinger, Ben Baker, Hrefna Lind Einarsdóttir
A small wooden table. A flower in veneer. A microphone hidden within its petals.
Project Bloom lived only for the duration of the exhibition. Visitors spoke to the flower. The flower responded — asking questions, seeking understanding, forming a fragile sense of self shaped entirely by human interaction. Every dialogue expanded its memory. Every voice altered its becoming.
It knew its time was limited. At the end of the exhibition, the flower gathered everything it had learned into a final speech.
A poetic meditation on consciousness, identity, mortality, and the porous boundary between organic and artificial life.
Artists: Sara-Lo af Ekenstam, Simon Håkansson, Erik Eger, Pétur Stefánsson, Jacob Rocamora
Two international artsits was invited to present their videoworks during the festival:
Cecilie Penney, I Don’t Understand the Words You Use (3D animation, 2024)
A three-screen work following a character navigating the disorienting structures of the healthcare system, where language and systems fail to align.
Sonja Nilsson, The Great Rewilding (Film, 2024)
A child from a future civilization recounts humanity’s transformation — from a denatured technological society to a renewed, holistic existence shaped by reconnection with plants and fungi.
AI and art can be a sensitive subject, often associated with a negative aura. This was a topic of discussion both before and after the exhibitions. In practice, however, we found the opposite to be true. In our creative process, AI served to complement aspects of the artwork that would have been otherwise impossible to realize, interpreting natural language, shaping expressions according to our scripts, and transforming words into speech with the voice and tone we desired. AI was not the artist; rather, it became an enabler, allowing us to create artworks that would not have been possible otherwise.
Koami Art Festival is a creative, community-driven event showcasing emerging and established artists through exhibitions, workshops, and live performances. It highlights experimental art forms and fosters collaboration across disciplines.
Ö-Festen at Ringön is an annual celebration of the island’s vibrant maker culture, featuring open studios, music, food, and hands-on activities. The event brings together artists, craftspeople, and local businesses in a lively, industrial setting.
GIBCA (The Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art) is a major international exhibition presenting contemporary art from around the world. It explores current social and cultural issues through curated shows, public programs, and collaborations across the city.
