PKW KIdoskop
Film, min, Car, kaleidoscope, screen
2025
An immersive art installation between memory, AI and kaleidoscopic trance
The PKW KIdoskop (PKW is german for passenger car) is a multisensory art installation housed in a silver Peugeot with tinted windows. The car no longer serves as a means of transportation, but becomes a stationary portal to another reality. Two visitors at a time can enter the interior of the vehicle – and immerse themselves in a kaleidoscopic landscape of thoughts.
Inside, the view through the windscreen is of an oversized kaleidoscope: a combination of painted glass, coloured light effects and fragmented shapes that are constantly changing. In the middle is a small screen showing an AI-generated video – a surreal journey through the ruins of my former studio, which has since been demolished. In this cinematic collage, a white rabbit floats through tunnels of reality, metaphors for change and dissolution. At the end of the journey, the rabbit transforms – half magical, half grotesque – into a hybrid figure: half human, half bunny girl. A symbol of transformation, memory and the ambivalent role of artificial intelligence in the creative process.
To complement the visual experience, the car radio plays an AI-generated blues rock album composed by valo_valentino especially for this project. The music pays homage to the former container city at Stuttgart’s Nordbahnhof – a place of art, resistance and transience. Visitors can purchase the album on site for a small fee if they wish.
The PKW KIdoskop is an installation, music room, shrine to memory and vision of the future all at once. It invites visitors to explore the fault lines between the analogue past and digital imagination – and to embark on a journey in which the interior space and inner world merge.
About valo_valentino
Valo’s artistic practice bridges the fields of visual art, music, cultural history, cybernetics, environmental phenomena and poetry.
His current works range between analogue and digital media, between marble and code, between drawing and light, installation and collaboration.
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