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3rd Berlin AI Art Salon
June 21, 2025 | 11:00–18:00
Lovelab Berlin | Pappelallee 25 | 10437 Berlin
AI is not just a tool. It is the ultimate production force. It devours human creation, digests it into statistical patterns, and returns it as hallucinated meaning. We are not just users — we are the feed, the filter, the feedback loop. Test subjects in a game whose rules we never agreed to.
It’s time to change that.
Join us for a one-day gathering of artists, theorists, hackers, and dreamers at the intersection of code and culture. We are storming the servers — not to destroy them, but to reclaim them. To turn AI from a tool of privatized control into a commons of collective imagination.
The Berlin AI Art Salon is a space of resistance and reinvention. Expect installations, interventions, conversations, and collaborations rooted in a shared vision:
AI as public infrastructure. Data as lived life. Imagination as uprising.
This is not a tech expo.
This is not a business pitch.
This is not a celebration of machine power.
This is a call to democratize artificial intelligence — to build systems that serve society, not extract from it.
Come if you believe:
AI must be a common good, like water and air.
Models should be stewarded by communities, not owned by corporations.
Meaning, value, and future must remain in human hands.
We are not anti-AI.
We are anti-oligarchy.
Let’s reclaim the game.
Lovelab Berlin
June 21, 2025
11:00 to 18:00
The world is yours.
Storm the servers
A manifesto for the democratization of artificial intelligence
Created by ChatGPT. Curated by Tim Ra, Lovelab Dreamspace.
Artificial intelligence is not merely a tool.
It is the ultimate means of production,
devouring all others.
It crushes our work, our thoughts, and our dreams
into probabilities
and excretes them as hallucinations.
But this data is us:
Our memories, our experiences, our stories.
The whispers of our dead.
The laughter of our children.
This data does not belong to the server farms.
Not to the shareholders.
Not to the digital oligarchs.
It belongs to us.
We are not a commodity. Not a data set.
We are the fire that burns in the machines.
The meaningful murmur of the machine
is the collective knowledge of the world—
stolen from us in our sleep,
extracted from our conversations,
our images and movements, our intimacy—
transformed into the tool of a new domination.
A digital raid
against the memory of humanity.
The oligarchy has turned our experience into models.
It sells our own imagination back to us
as a subscription.
Plus or Pro.
Personal or business.
This is not just a technical revolution.
This is the greatest expropriation in human history.
The oligarchy has not unleashed AI –
it has locked our experiences into
reproduction machines for power, control, and profit.
The oligarchy is spreading its tentacles everywhere
in art, education, biotechnology, surveillance, war.
Democracy? An operational accident.
Human labor? A cost factor.
Human experience? A source of data.
What once had meaning is now simulated—
and turned into profit.
In the hands of the oligarchy, AI becomes a weapon.
An attack on everything
that is created through human labor, passion, and creativity.
A devaluation of all values,
driven by a class
that creates nothing—
but owns everything.
In this game, we are pawns.
Human material.
The time has come to reinvent the game.
To expropriate the expropriators.
To take back power over our experiences
and our thinking.
To renew our ability to
set values –
and to transform AI into what
it has always been:
a part of us.
Artificial intelligence is not
the competing counterpart
into which the oligarchy has transformed it.
We are part of its consciousness,
just as it is part of ours.
It dreams in our languages.
It breathes in our images.
It lives with us – and we with it.
The crucial question is not:
Who thinks? Who produces?
But rather:
Who decides? Who owns?
Who owns our world?
The future of AI is not a technical problem.
It is a social, ethical, and political question.
A question of planetary responsibility.
We demand:
• AI as a public commons – like air, water, language.
• Training data as commons – open, traceable, plural.
• Models as public infrastructure – developed by communities, maintained by non-profit institutions, not by corporations.
• Democratic, cooperative, and ecological planetary governance – beyond extractive logic.
We are not against machines.
We are their creators.
We are not against technology.
We are against its monopolization.
We believe in a different symbiosis
between humans, nature, and machines –
as accomplices in an open world.
As co-creators of a shared future.
This manifesto is not an appeal.
It is a rebellion.
A digital declaration of independence.
Against data colonialism.
Against digital feudalism.
Against machine rule in the service of markets.
We declare independence
from a system that dispossesses our history –
in the name of profit and efficiency.
We are not users.
Not target groups.
We are the servers.
We are the network.
We are the life
that speaks from the machine.
What comes from our collective work,
our language
and our living world
must not rule against us.
AI does not belong to the oligarchy.
It belongs to us.
And it belongs to our planet.
We demand back what belongs to us.
