FACT: Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria?
Date: 5.2.26 - 26.4.26
Time: All Day
Location: FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ
Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria? is an exhibition that looks at how our relationship with intelligent technologies, such as AI, is changing. It explores how this shift shapes our sense of self, our ability to make choices, and our connection to machines as we evolve alongside them.
Wednesday-Sunday
11:00-18:00
Free entry
Curated by FACT’s 2025 Curator-in-Residence, Milia Xin Bi, the exhibition draws inspiration from tabletop games, where every player’s decision rewrites the story. In this exhibition, you become the meeple: a human-shaped game piece whose actions have real-world consequences. The artworks invite you to take part, make decisions, and consider how your actions influence our technological future.
Vytas Jankauskas reflects on the climate crisis, human existence and technological development, revealing the pleasure and pain that emerge from their entanglement. Jan Zuiderveld’s works create encounters between people and machine-learning algorithms placed inside physical objects, highlighting how we often see certain behaviours as signs of life. Joseph Wilk’s tabletop game positions play as a form of resistance against the political ideas built into many technologies.
Step into this playful world, test the boundaries and discover the impact of your choices. Together, these artworks ask: in a world shaped by intelligent systems, who makes the next move?
FACT’s 2025 Curator-in-Residence is supported by the John Ellerman Foundation.
Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria? is supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. FACT is funded by Arts Council England, Liverpool City Council, with support from Culture Liverpool.
