Over the last three decades, Khoj has consistently responded to moments of social change through artistic practice—particularly at the intersections of gender, ecology, and technology. Are You Human? has emerged from Khoj’s long-standing engagement with hyper-digital lives, where the boundaries between the physical and the virtual are increasingly porous. In a moment shaped by AI, deepfakes, algorithmic governance, and immersive media, it is critical to create spaces for dialogue that move beyond technological fascination to ask deeper questions about power, bias, authorship, and agency.

A Night of Films extends the exhibition’s inquiries into technology, bodies, and the shifting conditions of being human.

The first screening was of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival On Tour, a selection compiled from submissions to the Prix Ars Electronica 2025 in the category of New Animation Art. The On Tour compilation, PANIC – Prix Ars Electronica Selection, resonates with the 2025 festival theme, PANIC: Yes/No. The one-hour program comprise of nine short films that collectively confront us with mountains of plastic, obsolete technologies, industrial detritus, environmental collapse, and societal decay. Together, they form a striking panorama in which we encounter a mounting sense of unease, perhaps even panic, as a reflection of our present moment.

The second film was The Innocence of Unknowing, a feature-length work by Ryat Yezbick and Milo Talwani. The film investigates news media coverage of mass shootings in the United States since the 1960s. This immersive essay film, created from an archive of news footage sourced by Yezbick, examines our role as spectators to violence while tracing the evolution of media, from television to smartphones to social platforms, through which we process and make sense of it. It is also one of the first projects to examine the United States’ historic relationship to eyewitness news through the lens of AI.