The annual members’ exhibition is guest-curated by the Vienna-based curator and writer Attilia Fattori Franchini, who has developed a thematic group exhibition selected through an open call, under the title HER.

Ǫuestioning the role of technology in shaping and defining our sense of self as well as our relationship to others, Salzburger Kunstverein’s annual members’ exhibition HERdrafts the human as an imperfect, imaginary, sensory-led, embodied being. An agent and an accomplice of power and its structures.

Spike Jonze’s tech drama Her(2013) depicted a romance between a man and his operating system. Set in the near future, Hercaptures Obama-era techno-optimism better than any other movie. It’s a time capsule, preserving dreams of progress that can now be defined almost as naive. Positioned in a utopian Los Angeles of the near future, an urban landscape untouched by wildfires, harsh immigration policies, or economic crisis, the film is one of the first to represent AI as an intimate,…