SAAI Factory is an art project initiated by the Hamburg-based artist Christoph Faulhaber. The performer, filmmaker, and author is known for his surprising, bold, and mind-boggling projects that address socially relevant issues and institutional critique.In 2021, SAAI Factory conducted a symposium, a workshop program and an international interdisciplinary hackathon. The presentation of SAAI Factory is a comprehensive collaborative approach presenting the whole ecosystem: the award winners, selected projects from the competition, accompanied by works from associated members, partners and collaborators. The exhibition is showcasing artworks along the intersection of Art and AI enabling to view the interactive human-machine-process. While questioning “art” as a merely human product SAAI is offering an act of rethinking, rewriting, reorienting.

This event is a vehicle for the celebration of Gozo’s identity in a two-pronged, interlinked manner: through the organisation of a contemporary art collective under the theme of Alternative Perspectives, and an art-historical conference entitled The Artistic Legacy of Gozo, thus linking Gozo’s artistic legacy with present artistic production. The event is under the artistic direction of Dr Mark Sagona, visual artist and resident academic in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Malta. Both events will take place during the month of May 2022 at the newly-refurbished complex of the Teatru Astra in Victoria, Gozo.