FACT Liverpool’s New Interactive AI Exhibition Lets Visitors Play With the Future
From Friday 6 February to Sunday 26 April 2026, FACT Liverpool invites visitors to explore the evolving relationship between humans and intelligent technologies with its latest exhibition, Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria? Inspired by the decision-driven world of tabletop games, the show reimagines visitors as “meeple”—small game pieces navigating a reality shaped by AI, machine learning, and connected networks.
Curated by FACT’s 2025 Curator-in-Residence Milia Xin Bi, the exhibition examines how technology influences our sense of self, decision-making, and behaviours in a feedback loop she calls “neurophoria.”
Highlights include:
- Vytas Jankauskas’s Life Forever (2025) – an absurd, interactive “jellyfish wellness spa” powered by cryptocurrency-mining heat, where visitors’ choices affect both the creatures’ wellbeing and their pursuit of profit.
- Joseph Wilk’s CripShip (2024) – a tabletop role-playing game transforming disability experiences into a collaborative, resistance-driven AI narrative, inviting visitors to join the fictional Ministry of AI Spills to combat algorithmic harm.
- Jan Zuiderveld’s Coffee Machine (2023) and Life on FACT (2025) – playful AI-driven artworks that give machines a voice and physical presence, questioning everyday human-machine interactions and surveillance.
Through humour, gamification, and immersive interaction, Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria? challenges visitors to consider how AI and intelligent technologies shape our values, choices, and sense of reality—turning audiences into active participants in the world of tomorrow.
For more information visit FACT Liverpool’s website: fact.co.uk.
