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Instituto Cervantes Opens 'Aeolia,' an AI Reimagining of Don Quixote

An interactive sculpture turns visitor breath into new Quixote passages using wind energy through a model trained on Cervantes with contemporary sources.

Overview

  • The exhibition opens this week at the Instituto Cervantes and runs through March 8 as the launch of the Paisajes Intangibles cycle curated by Roberta Bosco.
  • Visitors activate an aerogenerator by blowing on a suspended feather, converting airflow into AI-written fragments projected inside the sculpture and on a screen.
  • Public interactions over the run will compile five digital books that the audience can read online and download from the project website.
  • The program features an AI-generated interview with Miguel de Cervantes and a short film documenting the artist’s capture of La Mancha wind at Campo de Criptana.
  • An artist’s book stores a Quijote 2.0 edition encoded in synthetic DNA for long-term preservation, with the AI trained on the original novel plus a broad contemporary bibliography.