UMM is pleased to announce that it is hosting a Pavilion, Electric Campfire, at the seventh edition of The Wrong Biennale. The exhibition is open from November 1st, 2025 through March 31st, 2026.
Electric Campfire comes in the context of AI taking over a part of our headspace, with headlines ranging from existential doom and concerns about the labor and environmental implications, to the challenges of regulation. As artists, entering this arena is fraught and contentious. Electric Campfire happens in the margins, creating a threshold where repetition threatens annihilation yet also harbors the possibility of mutation. It is the refuse of a recursive model’s collapse: a lens through which to consider what happens when systems (technological, cultural, or ecological) feed endlessly on their own outputs. Just as AI risks losing nuance when it trains on synthetic echoes of itself, so too do societies risk collapse when feedback loops of representation, history, and power fail to admit new voices. The works gathered here intervene in this recursive narrowing, insisting on multiplicity, interruption, and critical renewal. They ask what forms of knowledge are lost when circulation turns inward, and imagine what futures become possible when collapse is seen as a call for new worlds?
About The Wrong
[From The Wrong Biennale website:]
The Wrong Biennale is an independent, non-profit, multicultural, decentralized, and collaborative art biennial created to showcase digital art to a global audience, and now grown into a massive international community and a reference in the digital art scene. The Wrong brings together established, emerging, and underrepresented artists and curators to explore creativity and contemporary digital art in a positive and constructive environment, presenting a diverse range of styles and mediums to a global audience, promoting inclusivity and encouraging cultural growth and experimentation.
Held every two years, The Wrong Biennale connects curators, artists, institutions and the public, to build an exhibition of exhibitions, earning widespread recognition and accolades from the global press, art community, and public. Notably, it has received awards such as SOIS Cultura and an honorific mention from the European Commission’s S+T+ARTS prize. The Wrong is an institutional member of the IBA – International Biennial Association. The Wrong Biennale is a global art event that generates and showcases art across virtual, physical, and hybrid platforms on a historic scale. Since its inception in 2013, it has presented the work of over 10,000 artists through more than 800 curated digital and physical exhibitions worldwide.
“Counting its viewership in the millions, The Wrong just might be the world’s largest art biennale – the digital world’s answer to Venice.”
– The New York Times