’Faux Flora and Fauna: How AI Warps Our Perception of Nature’ is an audiovisual lecture-performance exploring how generative AI reshapes perception, memory and ecological understanding. Through hyperreal imagery, AI-generated wildlife and algorithmic image systems, it examines how nature is detached from lived experience and reassembled as synthetic signal. Situating these developments within a longer history of mediated nature, the talk asks how digital noise becomes pattern, and how attention constructs what is understood as “real nature” in an increasingly synthetic visual culture. It considers AI-generated animals and environments as active forces that reshape ecological imagination, blur fact and fabrication and reconfigure our sense of presence in relation to the natural world.

Kristin Jakubek and Leon Brandt are Berlin-based media artists whose practices span film, generative media, and spatial installation. Together, they create audiovisual works that investigate how emerging technologies reshape our relationship with the natural world.

As KUBEK, Jakubek creates generative video and hyperreal AI imagery, extending her scenographic practice through computational image-making. Brandt is a cinematographer working across narrative and experimental film, currently developing a wildlife documentary from the perspective of animal protagonists, bringing a focus on real environments, lived observation, and cinematic storytelling to their collaborative practice.