Onkaos and SOLO Contemporary present End of Signal by Cezar Mocan, winner of the SOLO AI ’25 AWARD, at SOLO CSV, Madrid. The exhibition follows a distributed satellite intelligence attempting to explain the disappearance of a toxic lake from satellite view during a solar eclipse.
As conflicting testimonies and incompatible datasets accumulate, the system struggles to reconcile what it sees. Through a generative simulation, Mocan examines how technological observation constructs versions of reality, asking what happens when an infrastructure designed to produce certainty encounters something it cannot explain.
About Cezar Mocan
Cezar Mocan is a Lisbon-based artist and computer programmer. Through the use of narrative generative systems, he creates simulations that reveal technological observation as a form of worldmaking, while investigating technological lifecycles from hype through adoption, infrastructuralization and obsolescence. He is interested in the built infrastructures which enable our digital lives, as well as the ways in which their presence in the natural landscape affects our perception: the moments when utility becomes nostalgia.
His real-time simulation work, Arcadia Inc. was recognized as a 2021 winner of the Lumen Prize in Art and Technology. In 2025 he was awarded the ABS Emerging Artist of the Year award and the SOLO AI AWARD.
End of Signal is the winning project of the SOLO AI ’25 AWARD, presented by SOLO Contemporary, and part of the exhibition programme of Onkaos.