Turning his eponymous 2021 NFT collection into an immersive video installation, Memo Akten’s solo exhibition “Distributed Consciousness” opens at ACMI, Melbourne (AU). 256 AI-generated octopi, each containing a hidden verse, invite meditation on non-human intelligence and human-machine co-creation. “Staged as a place of worship, our tentacular deities invite us to face our final Copernican Trauma, the reality that humans may not be the sole keepers of intelligence, creativity or even consciousness.”