Video Art | 00:07:20 | 2025

“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” – AI Ballet examines algorithmic mind control by inverting Goya’s warning: if the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleepless vigilance of artificial intelligence create? The installation explores how AI’s constant surveillance breeds new psychological manipulations through behavioral prediction and the commodification of consciousness. Using AI-generated choreography and imagery, the work stages a meta-commentary on technological control—empty halls, silent pianos, and the textual mutation from “AI” to “GOD” expose algorithms’ quasi-religious authority. Addressing questions from neuroscience and ethics, it asks: who governs our mental states, and how do brain–computer interfaces reshape free will? In AI Ballet, algorithmic control becomes an inescapable choreography, confronting viewers with their complicity in systems that choreograph autonomy itself.

Galina Bleikh is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, technology, and science. Her practice explores human perception, artificial intelligence, and visual representation, aiming to create a language through which people can interact with technological reality in a synergistic way. Spanning AI art, generative art, bio-art, VR/AR, digital and installation art, her work bridges science and aesthetics. Since 2011, together with Elena Serebryakova, she has developed the concept of the Simulacro-centric World and Hybrid Neural Network Art (HNN Art). A graduate of the Stieglitz Academy of Art in St Petersburg, she lives in Jerusalem and hosts LEONARDO / LASER Talks Jerusalem, fostering dialogue between artists and scientists. Her works have been presented internationally, including at the CICA Museum of Modern Art (South Korea), the Jerusalem Biennale, NordArt (Germany), and Haifa Museum of Art (Israel).