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Creative Crossroads: Berlin, Hong Kong, Venice

From AI workshops to bamboo-wrapped skyscrapers — a creative field report from the front lines of culture, code, and architecture.

Marius Jopen

31 Mar 2025 — 2 min read

Dear friends,

I just arrived in Berlin and am heading out again …

Together with Tobias Rees, a forward thinking AI philosopher, Santiago Carrasquilla, Pedro Sanches and Paula Kühn we will host workshops about AI at some major fashion brands and institutes. So that will be exciting. 🚀

Also I was able to finally visit the exhibition at Kraftwerk Berlin for which I did all the AI Quantum Noise stuff. It was very impressive to see my work presented at such a top-notch setting. Very grateful that I had the opportunity to work on this.

Then, a good friend invited me to participate on his current project. He was asked to design the brand-identity for the Hong Kong pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Very happy to have the opportunity to collaborate with a good friend on such an exciting project.

Did you know that in Hong Kong, bamboo scaffolding is still used to build skyscrapers? The workers are known as *Bamboo Artists* — and they’re highly skilled and well-respected.

And then… OpenAI dropped an update on their image generation tool and the internet gets flooded with Studio Ghibli images. Probably I am already late to the party – but here is my contribution.