Does artistic speculation create tomorrow? Discussion around Suzanne Treister's exhibition at Museum of Art MS1

The discussion "Does artistic speculation create tomorrow?" accompanies Suzanne Treister's exhibition at Museum of Art MS1. The conversation will be moderated by Rafał Pikuła, with contributions from Daniel Muzyczuk, Gabriela Sitek, and Justyna Stępień. The meeting aims to present Treister's work from several perspectives: curatorial, institutional, philosophical, and technological. The panelists will consider how art can examine and challenge dominant scenarios and whether artistic speculation can be a way of predicting possible future variants. **Participants:** - **Rafał Pikuła** (moderator) - journalist, publicist, new media critic, speaker and lecturer. He is a graduate of journalism and cultural studies at the University of Warsaw and postgraduate Digital Media studies at SWPS. He heads the magazine "Spider's Web+" and is an expert for Polish Radio. He speaks about technologies from a human perspective, about the consequences of artificial intelligence development and its impact on society, culture and media. He has published in, among others, "Gazeta Wyborcza" (in the business section, weekend magazine and "Duży Format"), "Newsweek", "Forbes", "Polityka", "Przegląd" and "Tygodnik Powszechny". He was twice a finalist for the Economic Journalism Award (2023, 2024) and in 2025 was nominated for the Grand Press Award in the Commentary category. - **Daniel Muzyczuk** - director of Museum of Art in Łódź. As a curator, he has realized numerous artistic and exhibition projects, including "Long Gone Susan Philipsz", "We Went to Croatoan" (with Robert Rumas), "Melancholia of Resistance" (with Agnieszka Pindera), "Gazes 2011", "Sounds of the Electric Body. Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957-1984" and "Notes from Underground. Alternative Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1968-1994" (both with David Crowley), "Museum of Rhythm" (with Natasha Ginwala), "Through the Soundproof Curtain: The Polish Radio Experimental" (with Michał Mendyk).