Film Screening: Gravity Will Take Us All.
By: Zeno Gries.
Duration: 21 minutes.
Shown in Wisdome at Curiosum Saturday–Sunday at 16:00.
Meet in Bildmuseet’s reception at 15:50.
A part of the AI and the Paradox of Agency exhibition.
Zeno Gries
Gravity Will Take Us All, 2026
Film, 21 min.
180° dome video projection with original audio recordings of Norbert Wiener and AI recreations of his voice
Music by Carl Michael von Hausswolff
In his immersive film, Gravity Will Take Us All, artist Zeno Gries conjures the voice of American mathematician and philosopher Norbert Wiener. Wiener founded the field of cybernetics, the scientific study of systems of communication and control, which laid the groundwork for autonomous systems such as AI. In the film, Wiener’s voice – a mixture of real and AI-generated audio based on Wiener’s writings – narrates drone footage of Stockholm, where he died in 1964 on a lecture trip.
The film shows us the city through the eyes of Norbert Wiener in a fictionalised account of the moments just before his death. Seeing the world from above, from a non-human perspective where patterns in all matter seem to become visible, the world appears simple and mechanical. But zoomed in, human life reveals itself to be complex and sometimes messy. The film reflects on the difference between creating a model of behaviour in the world – necessary for programming AI agents – and stepping into whatever is in the register beyond life. The agency of the individual person is seen here as both part of a larger context, but also so much more complex than just a mechanical being. Zeno Gries is based in Berlin, Germany.
Commissioned by Bildmuseet with support from the Jacob Wallenberg Foundation. With thanks to Curiosum, UmArts and TAIGA at Umeå University.
