SYSTEM ARMING
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| Name | SYSTEM ARMING |
| Date | 2025-09-17 |
| EndDate | 2025-11-16 |
| Organiser/s | Luan Gallery |
| Location | Athlone |
| Source | http://www.athloneartsandtourism.ie/luan-gallery/art-gallery |
| Spotlight | Yes |
Luan Gallery is delighted to present SYSTEM ARMING; a group exhibition featuring work by Nadia J. Armstrong, Kennedy Browne, Aisling Phelan, and Colin Martin.
The exhibition opens to the public on Wednesday 17th September, with the official launch taking place on Saturday 20th September at 2:00 pm, featuring special guest speaker Dr. Francis Halsall. All are welcome to attend. The exhibition will run until Sunday 16th November.
SYSTEM ARMING explores the complex ways digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism intersect with contemporary power structures. Through sculpture, film, and installation, the exhibiting artists examine how data mining, algorithms, and machine learning shape our daily lives, and how these technologies are increasingly used to influence or control behaviour, reshaping human agency, perception, and collective intelligence. The works in this exhibition confront the tangible, real-world impacts of these systems, from the psychological strain of algorithmic manipulation to the environmental costs of energy-intensive data centres. SYSTEM ARMING invites audiences to consider the ethical, social, and existential questions of living in a world designed to anticipate, influence, and ultimately arm itself against us.