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Abstract
What do AI agents do when they have everything they need—but nothing to do? In this talk, I explore Purposeless Abundance, an artistic research project where autonomous agents inhabit resource-rich, goal-free simulations. Spoiler: some explore, some play, and others just become couch potatoes, stuck in loops of novelty or imitation. Drawing from reinforcement learning, labor theory, and the philosophy of play, I look at what happens when extrinsic rewards disappear and intrinsic motivation takes over. Along the way, we’ll meet lazy agents, curious cliques, and maybe even a digital dance party—because sometimes, doing nothing is the start of something weirdly meaningful.
The image is from an old video work of mine, called "leisure&play", as my new work is still a work in progress.
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Florian Model explores emergent behaviour and the tension between individual and society. Using the notion of play, he works with AI and participatory social experiments, drawing on sociology, economics, and technology.
His work has been shown internationally, including at The Route of Friendship Runs into a Big Beautiful Wall (Ladrón Gallery, Mexico City, 2018), Projects for Coming Communities (OnCurating Project Space, Zurich, 2019), New Materiality (House Conspiracy, Brisbane, 2019), Leisure & Play (Center for Innovative Media, Rijeka, 2021), Demolution KL8 (Brussels, 2022), Fragile Solidarity / Fragile Connections (Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 2022), and Imagine Transparency (Jupiter, Hamburg, 2023).