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FACT Liverpool, the city’s leading new-media arts centre in the heart of Liverpool, is currently hosting a thought-provoking exhibition that places artificial intelligence, digital identity and human choice at the centre of the contemporary art conversation.
Can People Escape the Neurophoria? brings together immersive installations and screen-based artworks that explore how we live, feel and make decisions alongside algorithms in today’s digital landscape.
A new media exhibition exploring AI, identity and human choice
Presented across the first-floor gallery, the exhibition asks a simple but urgent question:
Can people really escape the digital systems shaping our lives?
Through interactive environments, digital characters and large-scale installations, the exhibition explores:
- Our relationship with artificial intelligence
- How technology influences behaviour and emotion
- The tension between human decision-making and automated systems
- The future of digital identity
Radical Technologies, the design of everyday Life explores this theme in greater detail.
The Design of Everyday Life
Vytas Jankauskas – Life Forever
One of the standout works in the exhibition is Life Forever by Vytas Jankauskas.
This striking screen-based narrative invites visitors into a surreal and emotional digital experience. Viewers are asked to reflect on what it might feel like to exist as something entirely different — even as a jellyfish-like digital being.
By drawing on the sensation of vulnerability and transformation, the work reminds us that:
Being stung, reacting, and feeling is what makes us human — not a machine.
The artwork becomes a quiet meditation on empathy, digital embodiment and what separates artificial intelligence from lived experience.
Vytas Jankauskas
Bassam Issa Al-Sabah – An immersive sculptural landscape
On the ground floor, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah brings the space dramatically to life with a large-scale immersive sculptural installation.
The environment is made up of:
- Rotating sculptural forms
- Shifting light and colour
- Projected and screen-based elements
The installation surrounds visitors in a constantly changing digital and physical landscape. As the sculptures rotate and the lighting evolves, the work creates a powerful sense of movement, transformation and technological atmosphere.
Walking into the installation is described by many visitors as breathtaking — a moment where digital art and physical space merge seamlessly.
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Nina Davies
Nina Davies – Meet Me in the Digital Twin
Nina Davies’ installation offers one of the most emotionally moving contributions to the exhibition.
Created in collaboration with three young people from Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Meet That in the Digital Twin explores the confusion, uncertainty and emotional complexity of going through cancer treatment.
Together, the group created three digital characters — imagined as their possible digital twins — who could exist and survive in a future world.
The installation gently examines:
- Digital identity
- Resilience and imagination
- How technology can become a tool for storytelling and emotional expression
It is a powerful reminder that digital art can be deeply personal as well as technologically innovative.
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An Anti‑Fascist Approach
Why you should visit FACT Liverpool
This exhibition is ideal for anyone interested in:
- AI and emerging technology
- immersive and interactive art
- digital storytelling
- the future of identity and creativity
By combining large-scale installations with intimate, narrative-driven works, the exhibition demonstrates why FACT remains one of the UK’s leading centres for media art.
Liverpool
Exhibition details
Exhibition: Can People Escape the Neurophoria?
Venue: FACT Liverpool – the city’s leading new-media art centre
Location: Liverpool city centre
Main exhibition runs until:
26 April 2026
Selected artist installations run until:
- Bassam Issa Al-Sabah – until 22 February 2026
- Nina Davies – until 22 February 2026
(Please check individual gallery listings at FACT for the latest schedule.)
For those interested in learning more about AI the University of Liverpool is offering MSc Artificial Intelligence, an online program.
Final thoughts
Can People Escape the Neurophoria? is more than a digital art exhibition — it is a timely and immersive exploration of how artificial intelligence, technology and human emotion are increasingly intertwined.
If you want to experience some of the most forward-thinking contemporary digital art in the UK, this exhibition at FACT Liverpool is well worth a visit.
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