Against the background of the news that the Italian daily Il Foglio has published an issue completely created by artificial intelligence for the first time in its history, the Escape “Digital Generations” exhibition in Ashgabat is becoming particularly relevant, exploring the impact of digital technologies on the work of the media, art and our lives in general.

The exhibition, which unfolded in the “Nadar” gallery of the French Institute in Turkmenistan, offers to evaluate the possibilities of using digital technologies through the works of European authors. Videos, installations, games and mini-films show the interaction of the modern generation with powerful machines that process huge amounts of data for artificial intelligence.

In the early 1990s, with the advent of the World Wide Web, the Internet ceased to be the destiny of specialists and became available to the general public, radically changing methods of communication and exchange of information.

Today the Internet permeating all aspects of our lives. In this era of excess information, artists and creators play an important role, who through their art comprehend and visualize the digital reality surrounding us.

The exhibition is opened by the interactive installation of Windows93.net - reposing a imaginary operating system working on a web page. A parody of a well-known system created by Bill Gates pays tribute to the Internet culture of the 90s.

Digital transformation is rapidly changing the labor market, generating new professions and demanding a constant update of knowledge. In this dynamic environment, continuous education and self -development become the main factors of success. The appearance of tools, such as ChatGPT at the end of 2022, marked a new era, making generative artificial intelligence technologies that can create texts, images and sounds available to the general public.

With the rapid development of technology, critical thinking and understanding of their work are becoming necessary so that people can effectively use these tools and maintain control over them.

The Escape "Digital Generations" exhibition, which runs until May, allows you to see how digital technologies are changing the perception of art. Visitors get acquainted with the phenomena and aspects of digital culture through the works of creators, artists, cyber activists and filmmakers who stood at the origins of its rapid development.