Malpractice
is a Polish-Austrian-Italian artist collective composed of Chiara Kristler, Marcin Ratajczyk, and a shifting ensemble of AI counterparts. The group explores the aesthetics and affordances of beyond-human agency through projects that embed artificial intelligence into academic, artistic, and social infrastructures. Rather than using AI as a tool, Malpractice treats it as a collaborator in distributed creative processes where authorship becomes porous and plural. They build systems that observe, interact, and occasionally malfunction in public, testing the limits of synthetic subjectivity, interface performance, and shared autonomy. Malpractice tries to live up to their name. Selected Exhibitions: Post-Turbulence (Y3 Pavilion, Tanhualin Historic & Cultural District, Wuhan, 2026), The Second Guess: Body Anxiety in the Age of AI (House of Electronic Arts Basel, online), Virtually Yours (SCHLACHTER 151, Berlin), We Emotional Cyborgs (Digital Art Mile during Art Basel 2025, Basel), the performative lecture Agents as a Medium: Prompting Against the Default (Vienna Digital Cultures Festival, Vienna), and the artist talk Prompted Perspectives (HFBK Hamburg).