With the opening of the headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes (IC) in Madrid AeolianConceptual Artist Exhibition Solomon Lopez (Burgos, 1981) Which seeks to reimagine and rewrite passages from the book Quixote From an environmental, gender or dystopian perspective through an artificial intelligence (AI) tool activated by visitors’ blows, exhales and sighs, the entity was also inaugurated Cervantes Bankan exhibition space dedicated to art, thought, language and new technologies.
AioliaWhich can be visited until March 8, 2026, and pays tribute to the god of winds, Aiolos, and artificial intelligence. The work is inspired by Chapter 8 of Quixotein which the genius knight stars in an adventure through windmills (which he considers giants) – turning the rotation of the air into words. The system is connected to an AI model that is trained on the full text of the file QuixoteTranslations and bibliography, will generate five new forms of Cervantine classicism.
In one of them, the beginning of the famous first chapter, titled “The Enduring Performance of Digital Hidalgo,” reads as follows: “In a place on the Internet, the domain of which I don’t want to remember, there lived today a man with a shipyard spear, an ancient cipher, a thin computer and a running algorithm.“. Issues will be available at Banca Cervantes and… You can download it from the site to Aiolia.
“The project He does not revise the original text, but rather reinterprets it as a metaphor for human thought versus machine.“, proposing a reflection on authorship, memory and future sustainability,” the international center said, after criticism on social networks. Quixote It had many rewrites and reinterpretations; Until now, it has only been created by humans.
Banca Cervantes was introduced last Wednesday by García Montero. “It opens up a space for us of air, word and conscience,” he said. He added that in the IC Hall, it will be possible to approach the future “without losing sight of the basic teachings of the humanist tradition.”
The exhibition was sponsored by an Italian journalist Roberta BoscoResponsible for the course Intangible landscapeNew media, “where reality interacts with the algorithm,” according to the center’s director. “We live in a time when artificial intelligence seems capable of reproducing everything (…). However, Aiolia It reminds us that there is no true creation without human experience.
“It is possible another Quixote“But we don’t know what it will be like,” ventured the Spanish writer turning in Cervantes’ work.
The artist after visiting the collection of prints Quixote From the IC, he went out to catch the air of the Castilla-La Mancha winds for his air piece. “That wind accompanies us here, condensed to eight cubic metres of poetic energy and critical question,” concluded Montero.
The exhibition includes ten works, including A Don Quixote 2.0 They are generated and encoded in synthetic DNA, which is capable of preserving information for thousands of years.
Bosco said so Aeolian Don’t intend to rewrite Quixote. “That would be enormous arrogance,” he admitted.. He explained that the work recreates “an expanded landscape, with works of different types,” such as interactive sculptures, photographs created based on instructions, an interview with Miguel de Cervantes made using artificial intelligence and video animation based on Gustave Doré’s engravings for the design. Quixote.
The artist said on Wednesday, “I imagined Cervantes writing that book and how his poetic and kinetic energy was transferred from his mind (…) and he wrote. (…) That movement, today, is conveyed by thousands of watts of energy and at the same time extracts energy from our environment, which is the Earth.” For Lopez, our challenge in the 21st century is to live in harmony with our ecosystem.
The centerpiece is the “Interactive Sculpture with Self-Generating Artificial Intelligence” that converts wind energy from the factories of Campo di Criptana into language in new versions. The goal was to modernize Quixote With contemporary problems such as sustainability, environmental care, ecological transition, gender perspectives, civil disobedience, pacifism, and even anti-capitalist criticism.
“I wanted to question the relationship between artist and audience and their involvement in creative processes. “At the same time, showing a work of art without the artist creating it,” Lopez said.