Host: Håkan Lidbo, Museet för Artificiell Intelligens (Museum of AI), Sweeden

Visitor: Yoryos Styl, Inside Spaceman, Greece

Echokinetic emerged as a cross-disciplinary exploration of sound, image and technology, developed through the collaboration between Greek AI artist Yoryos Styl and Swedish composer and creator Håkan Lidbo. Hosted at Rumtiden, the evolving space of the AI Museum in Stockholm, the project unfolded as an audiovisual reflection on a future shaped by artificial intelligence.

The residency led to a public presentation on 29 August, where the work was shown alongside other experimental creations. The installation was received with enthusiasm for its seamless combination of technological elements and its thoughtful, dystopian commentary on AI. What was initially planned as a modest collaboration grew into a more expansive artistic experiment, supported by extensive preparation, early technical prototyping and a strong artistic rapport between the two collaborators.

This partnership built upon their earlier encounter at the 2024 Stockholm Fringe Festival, where an initial hosting arrangement laid the foundations for trust and creative alignment. Through the Creative FLIP program, this relationship developed into a fully shared artistic process that broadened their technical knowledge, sparked new ideas and opened possibilities for further international collaborations.

The experience offered several key takeaways. Early preparation proved essential, as technical testing and shared planning created the common ground needed for a fluid and productive residency. The project also showed that interdisciplinary work requires more time than expected; ideas from different fields expand rapidly, and finding a unified direction demands space to explore and refine them. Extending the on-site collaboration to nine intensive days allowed this process to unfold. Trust and openness further shaped the project, enabling honest dialogue, adaptive decision-making and a willingness to rethink directions when useful. Overall, the experience confirmed that ambitious concepts only fully materialize when supported by structure, flexibility and genuine curiosity.

One practical challenge was precisely the abundance of ideas generated by both sides. Allowing more time on site made it possible to transform this abundance into coherence, turning divergent concepts into a fully integrated work. This strengthened the understanding of what large-scale interdisciplinary pieces require and will inform how future iterations will be planned.

With the first version of Echokinetic completed, both collaborators are committed to continuing its development.