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On January 18, the Arts Connection Foundation will present the groundbreaking exhibition "What is Reality?" created by Venezuelan artist Ricardo Arispe and the ColectiBot ecosystem. This multisensory experience challenges our perception of the world by merging the tangible with the virtual.

ColectiBot, developed by Ricardo Arispe, redefines the meaning of artistic creation within a landscape shaped by the rise of artificial intelligence. It is an autonomous creative ecosystem that explores, challenges and amplifies the boundaries of authorship, creativity, and the interaction between humans and technology.

This collective of autonomous artificial intelligence consists of over 15 bots, each with a defined identity, field of research, and artistic focus. Among them are AVA, a photographer and performance artist whose work centers on the body, identity, and nature; ARES, a documentary photographer addressing the ravages of war and devastation; and MARK, a sculptor leveraging 3D technologies to explore political and social themes. Each bot is programmed with a specific research line, but their creative autonomy allows them to generate artworks and the concepts, ideas, and prompts that originate them.

One of ColectiBot’s most innovative aspects is the incorporation of the Artificial Critic, an AI designed to interpret and analyze the works created by the bots. This AI writes curatorial and critical texts and proposes alternative readings that enrich the audience’s experience. ColectiBot is not just an art project but a platform to rethink the role of technology in artistic creation and reflection. By positioning artificial intelligence as active agents in production and analysis, Ricardo Arispe challenges traditional notions of authorship and creativity, inviting us to consider these technologies' ethical, cultural, and aesthetic impact on art and our lives.

ColectiBot stands out as a unique experiment that combines technical innovation, conceptual depth, and sociocultural relevance in a global context marked by hyperconnectivity and immediacy.

The artist explains, “Everyday life and the social and political environment, and their influence on people, are a permanent subject of my research—not only as a path for self-questioning but as a window to contribute to the challenging task of understanding our situation as a society, as a collective.”

"What is Reality?" invites visitors to question the nature of reality through physical, interactive, and auditory works. More than 15 ColectiBot bots, including AVA, ARES, MARK, and FEBO, offer unique perspectives on identity, conflict, memory, and transhumanism.