From 8 September till 30 September 2025, CETE-P hosted Ellen Pearlman, a renowned media artist, curator and writer, known over many decades for numerous art projects and collaborations with other artists on projects that merged art and creativity with cutting-edge technology, especially AI. Her stay in Prague was funded by the Fullbright Program.

For two weekends, 13-14 and 20-21 September 2025, she gave an interdisciplinary Art-A-Hack Rapid Prototyping Workshop called AI Ecologies: Ecological-Technological Entanglements in Academic Conference Center, Husova 4a, Prague 1.

It invited students, academics, technologists, activists and artists to join in designing art projects that explored the entanglement of technology and ecology today.

On the spot, Ellen helped form two teams. Each of them was working on their own collective projects. The working titles of the two projects were Data Sweat and Prompt It Up, respectively. Data Sweat aims to dramatize the idea of how much electricity and water is used by large data centers, by showing a spectator how much she or he will use by making an AI GPT query. This project is at the stage of a working proof of concept that is nearly ready. It can work as a web-based piece, and if an opportunity turns up, it can be exhibited on site at a suitable venue.
Prompt It Up has a basic proof of concept that works, but needs more refinement. It is supposed to show how much water is used for an AI query. The designers of the project plan to demonstrate this by using a real water pump, with the sound of water integrated into the installation as it spits out one word at a time from an AI query using the actual pump. The two teams have successfully built, with the assistance from Ellen Pearlman, two rapid prototype projects about the use of data sources to power ChatGPT and focused on the effects of water and elektricity resources in Prague and the surrounding area. 

See more about Ellen Pearlman in her profile here.

Photos: Anna Šolcová