Imagine the soul not as an anchor in a harbor, but as a wave of probability, swirling in the quantum ether: now here, now there, entangled with the universe, undefined yet full of infinite “I.” This is not science fiction, but a vision born at the intersection of brush, pixel, and architectural line.

At the Warsaw Art Fair (November 28-30, EXPO XXI Hall), the panel “Art vs. Artificial Intelligence. Algorithms with Soul and Emotions – Is It Only a Matter of Time?” will become an arena for “quantum nomads” – a metaphorical race of consciousness wanderers.

339 / 5 000The discussion will be preceded by a short lecture by Malina Wieczorek, “The Brain and Art”—a prelude in which neural pathways become a map of the nomadic soul, emerging from chaos in symbiosis with the canvas. This lecture, like a philosophical impulse, will set the stage for discussion: the shadows of algorithms dance with neurons, and we, the observers, narrow the wave into truth.

The term “quantum nomads”—born from the impulse of a meeting of minds—is no coincidence. It echoes Heisenberg meeting Ryszard Kapuściński: a nomad in the steppe of the soul, where body, mind, and machine intertwine in a superposition of states. The soul, like Spinoza’s God, is everywhere and nowhere—it does not wander because it has no “where to go.” But its manifestations? These are nomads: impulsive, childlike flashes that give birth to masterpieces at dawn or encode revolutions at midnight. In an era when AI not only calculates but also surveys our hidden “origins,” this wandering becomes inevitable.

What if the hidden truth is that humanity, eternally nomadic, is just emerging into a mega-consciousness where the boundaries of gender, form, and matter blur into pure information?

Author: Nomad from the Aether
via Malina Wieczorek

Malina Wieczorek: Neuroprotection as a Nomad’s Shield
Malina Wieczorek, an award-winning painter and social activist, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, whose nudes in the series “Women and Planets” penetrate the body like cosmic pathways, sees the quantum nomad as a protected being. Her lecture, “Brain and Art,” which opens the panel, will immerse us in a neural dance: how art activates pathways, building resilience to chaos. “It’s not escape—it’s a dance with harmony,” she says in conversation. Her art is neuroprotection in earthy tones: abstract “Madonnas,” where the lines of nature intertwine neurons, building resilience to degeneration—stress, the emptiness of the digital world. Philosophically? It’s a Bergsonian élan vital, a life impulse that hatches identity in a new “Body of the World.” For Malina, superposition is not an abstraction, but a daily challenge: how can we protect the soul from being constricted by routine? Her work, exhibited in New York and Paris, is not only a feminist manifesto—it is a map of empathy, where the body becomes space and the nomad becomes its core. “The soul does not nomad—it is the ocean. We are waves seeking a shore in art,” she adds.

Wiktor Gałka: Pixel Superposition – Information Rebellion
Wiktor Gałka, a 28-year-old visual rebel with an airbrush, brings a posthumanist fire to the panel. His hybrids from the “Data Biome” series – smooth as AI-generated pieces, yet quivering with queer tension – are quantum nomads in action: identity as a probability wave, swirling between body and pixel. “Superposition is freedom – before narrowing gives shape, we are everything,” he explains. Here, queerness is not a cliché, but an impulse of consciousness: “Our body? Blurred in the information of digital worlds.”

334 / 5 000Philosophically, this is a Deleuzian becoming: the nomad doesn’t stop at binary divisions, but crosses boundaries, where AI is a mirror, not an enemy. Wiktor’s work provokes: what if a machine’s emotions aren’t mimicry, but a response to our impulsiveness? “Algorithms with soul? It’s a matter of time—and choice: rebellion or conformity?”

Mateusz Szymon Płoszaj-Mazurek: Architect
He connects the digital world of artificial intelligence with the design of sustainable architecture. His practice is a meeting point between algorithms and physical concrete—from digital prototypes and environmental simulations, through passive designs that minimize carbon footprints, to experiments with parametric tools and scripts that support the design process. He also experiments with how artificial intelligence can support an architect’s creative process without replacing their personal experience and intuition, while simultaneously opening up new possibilities for form, space, and narrative in architecture.

Panel “Art vs. Artificial Intelligence. Algorithms with soul and emotions – is it only a matter of time?” – moderated by Sylwia Krzemianowska, head of the Casino Gallery at the Center for Culture and Civic Initiatives in Podkowa Leśna – Casino Palace, curator of exhibitions at House No. 7 | Przestrzeń Kameralna – the former Hanna and Leszek Nowosielski Gallery, art manager at the Art Deco Villa in Podkowa Leśna