With Babelibabibliotheca – a play on words referring to Jorge Luis Borges’s short story The Library of Babel – Aramis Navarro presents a tongue-in-cheek yet fictional collection of the proliferations of artificial intelligence. How is our thinking influenced when AI is used as an intelligent tool? How do ideas and new forms of belief emerge through technical systems? His works question how digital technologies shape our understanding of the world and of reality. The infinite library, as conceived by Borges in his thought experiment, encompasses the entirety of human knowledge – past as well as future. Yet its sources remain partly illegible, incomprehensible or open to misinterpretation. Similarly, synthetic content generated by algorithms can be interpreted and misunderstood in different ways. Deformations are inevitable.

In his artistic practice, Navarro also draws on the writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant and his notion of a “right to opacity” – the right not to have to be…