Description: "What if the act of putting an idea down on paper actually resulted in its materialization?" That's the question Jack Womack asked himself in the afterword to his 1984 novel The Neuromatous - and here we are living in a world where it's starting to become possible. The installation is a tribute to William Gibson, the father of cyberpunk and the author of terms that would make history, such as "matrix", "cyberspace" and "cybersex". He is also the one who imagined the web and the "technological singularity", read "general artificial intelligence", creators of art, fighting for emancipation from human control. The source that inspired "Prototype for Future Cities" is "Cornell Boxes", a series of collages made by an AI in Gibson's novel "Count Zero". The project can be seen as a "neofuturist Babel" or as a collection of "surrealist contemplative assemblages". At the same time, it represents an exercise in anticipating the near future – a most likely post-war era, over-digitalized, dominated by multinational consumerism. In such a vision, we will be able to command an AI, by speaking or in writing: "Build me a city from what you have at hand!" – in this case, plastic waste – and AI will not let us down. Materials Plastic waste, wood, paint Size 215 × 215 × 30 cm