The lecture is inspired by Mindar, an android monk who delivers Buddhist teachings at the Kōdai-ji Temple in Kyoto, combining spiritual tradition with contemporary technology. Drawing on her own experiences and research, the author explores how artificial intelligence and robotics redefine notions of intimacy, ritual, and emotion, asking about aesthetic and affective experience in the spiritual interactions between human and technological objects. It is a reflection on the perspective of other dimensions of empathy and consciousness.

The lecture refers to themes present in the exhibition Focus on Collection at KrupaArt Foundation, where questions of ways of seeing, conflict, connection, entanglement, matrix, and bonds form a mosaic of inquiries into how technology transforms our ways of perceiving the world and building relationships.

The meeting takes the form of a poetic lecture in which fragments of films from ceremonies led by Mindar intertwine with scientific analysis and speculations on the aesthetics of intimacy in the era of sentient objects. The author reflects on what new aesthetics and sensations emerge at the intersection of intimate experience, spirituality, and technology, and whether in these contexts we can speak of new forms of exaltation.

Where: Krupa Art Foundation
When: Thursday, 12 March 2026 | 6:00 PM 
Free admission | download a free ticket