Exhibition (1–8 December, 2025) and International Conference (3–5 December,
2025)

Bauhaus Museum Weimar
Projektraum A – Basement
Stéphane-Hessel-Platz 1, 99423 Weimar, Germany

The boundaries of the Uncanny Valley are increasingly blurred. Today, AI systems generate texts, images, and films largely autonomously. In parallel, scientific research continues to reveal the cognitive abilities of plants. Yet debates on the Anthropocene show that the feeling of the uncanny is not confined to a valley where humans, machines, and plants meet. Rather, the Earth itself emerges as an actor in its own right – less a home than a source of uncertainty and disorientation.
This transdisciplinary conference explores the redistribution of subjectivity across technology, nature, and society from multiple perspectives. Five fields of emergence (divination, imagination, repetition, transition, and substitution), all defined in relation to Freud’s study of »The Uncanny,« serve as points of departure. Providing the setting for the conference, an installation at the Bauhaus Museum – incorporating artworks, objects, and materials – introduces these fields. In addition, a curated collection of texts, images, and film clips documents the transformation of ideas and sensations associated with the new machinic reality of the early 20th century.

Exhibition
December 1–8, 2025

Historical Context
Hans Bellmer, Karel Čapek, Alexei Gastev, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, Ishirō Honda, Fritz Kahn, Kliment Redko, Pavel Tchelitchew, Lev Theremin, among others

Contemporary Artists
Jenny Brockmann, Patricia Domínguez, Mario Gooden, Michael Johansson, Grace Ndiritu, Tao Ya-Lun, Ayoung Yu and Nicholas Oh, among others