The MSU Museum invites the public to a timely and thought-provoking talk with artist Tim Guthrie on Thursday, April 16, 2026, from 5:30–7:00 p.m. Presented as part of the Museum’s Blurred Realities exhibition, this program explores how artificial intelligence, bias, and digital media are reshaping how we understand truth. Through a talk and guided tour of Guthrie’s Museum of Alternative History installation, the event invites visitors to examine how information is constructed, presented, and interpreted in an increasingly complex media landscape.
As highlighted in Blurred Realities, the conditions shaping how truth circulates today, from AI-generated media to the unseen systems that fuel polarization, make distinguishing fact from fiction more urgent than ever.
“What would an educational institution look like if facts were cherry-picked to fit a particular narrative?” said Guthrie. “This project creates a space where visitors can encounter that question firsthand and begin to recognize how easily our understanding of history, and reality, can be shaped by bias.”
Guthrie’s interdisciplinary practice spans visual art, film, and immersive media, often exploring cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, and the fragile nature of shared knowledge. His Museum of Alternative History presents a fictional yet unsettlingly plausible environment that challenges audiences to question authority, authenticity, and the systems that frame what we accept as truth.
“Programs like this extend the work of Blurred Realities beyond the gallery,” said Mark Sullivan, creative director of the MSU Museum’s CoLab Studio. “By bringing artists, scholars, and the public together, we are creating space to critically engage with the forces shaping how we understand the world and asking better questions about the information we encounter every day.”
Developed by the MSU Museum’s CoLab Studio, Blurred Realities brings together artists, researchers, and technologists to examine how truth is constructed, contested, and transformed in the digital age. The exhibition is on view at the MSU Museum through July 18, 2026.
This exhibition and this event are free and open to the public.
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