It didn’t rain that day
Forschungsgruppe
EGC-ROBOPSY
Margarete Jahrmann
Saturday
12.09.2026
12:00–13:00
Credit: Margarete Jahrmann
Betonhalle
Betonhalle
AI role-playing game against fascism by the EGC-ROBOPSY research group (Margarete Jahrmann, Stefan Glasauer, Thomas Brandstetter, Alex Hackl, Stefan Maier)
This live, installation-based “Investigation Game” takes the Turing Test as a simulacrum of human communication and explores how our daily role-playing with large language models rewrites the past. As time travellers through “The Shit-Stained Time” with AI: the focus is on a controversial political event. Through collective prompting on site, a site-specific game emerges — starting with the Vienna Circle in 1936, then haunting Café Central, and bringing us to the here and now — caught between platform capitalism and the rising techno-fascism that distorts our democratic present.
In the Collective Memory Game Prompting workshop, we explore how memory emerges collectively, overlaps, and changes over time. Site-specific scenarios, individual perspectives, fragments, and narratives are brought together and translated into a role-playing game. AI serves as a space of resonance, taking up, shifting, and reassembling collective memories. The result is speculative narratives that oscillate between documented history and shared imagination.