Cracks of Meaning in the BPAA: Videopoetry, AI and Critical Thinking

Cracks of Meaning: Videopoetry in the Age of AI grew out of the work of the research-art collective Virtual Embodied Critical Thinking - AI (VECT-AI): Joanna Szczepanik, Aleksandra Łukaszewicz, Justyna Gorzkowicz and Jarosław Solecki. At the centre of the project was a question that is becoming increasingly urgent: how can art help us teach critical thinking in the age of artificial intelligence?

In March 2026, Blue Point Art was invited to take part in this artistic and educational experiment developed in the context of CAPHE, Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment. As a partner of the Polish Society for Aesthetics within the CAPHE project, BPA co-created the workshop Cracks of Meaning: Videopoetry in the Age of AI, held on 10 and 11 March 2026 at Apteka Designu / Design Pharmacy in Kraków, as part of the 1st International AI Art Biennale in Kraków.

The workshop explored critical thinking through videopoetry, VR and AI-based tools. Participants worked with digital error, uncertainty, fragmented meaning, damaged 3D scans, language-model hallucinations and the tension between human interpretation and machine-generated responses. Instead of treating error as something to be corrected immediately, the workshop invited participants to observe it, interpret it and use it as creative material.

The final outcome was a post-workshop videopoem installation presented from 12 to 15 March 2026 under the title Obowiązki własnej ręki wciągniętej ( ) do środka / The Duties of One’s Own Hand Drawn ( ) Inward. The project also resulted in a methodological and theoretical manual documenting the workshop model, its educational assumptions and its practical structure.

The BPAA now presents an expanded immersive documentation of this multi-layered event. The archival version brings together the videopoem installation, workshop documentation, contextual materials, the manual, reflective elements and digital exhibition practice. It also includes scans of objects created during the workshop, presented as interactive 3D materials that can be examined through movement and gizmo-based manipulation.

This archival version also marks an important step in the development of BPA’s virtual gallery. For the first time in the history of Blue Point Art, the archive introduces a VR-oriented experiment, developed with the support and encouragement of Prof. Aleksandra Łukaszewicz. The aim is not only to show works and documents, but also to test how visitors may enter the space, move through it, interact with materials and encounter traces of the participants’ process in a more embodied way.

The project will soon be presented at the international conference CAPHE Kraków 2026, Communities of Perception: Turn to Self-Observation, held at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków from 9 to 12 June 2026. In the conference programme, the workshop appears under the title How to support development of Virtually Embodied Critical Thinking in the age of AI? and will be presented jointly by the VECT-AI Collective: Aleksandra Łukaszewicz, Joanna Szczepanik, Justyna Gorzkowicz, and Jarosław Solecki within the Polish Society for Aesthetics.

In the BPA Archive, Cracks of Meaning continues as a living research and artistic environment. It asks what happens when AI imitates meaning, how artistic practice can expose the limits of automated responses, and how young participants can learn to recognise uncertainty, ambiguity and manipulation in digital environments.

We are grateful to everyone involved in this process, especially the organisers, partners and students whose openness, imagination and engagement made this experiment possible.

Explore the archival presentation in the Blue Point Art Archive: https://archive.bluepointart.uk/

CAPHE, Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment, has received funding from the Horizon Europe programme under Grant Agreement No. 101086391.