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This paper focuses on the relationship between new technologies, contemporary art and exhibition methods and questions how AI can demystify creativity and suggest alternative developments and uses. It studies a specific case study, the exhibition Another World of Christopher Kulendran Thomas, organized between October 2022 and January 2023 by the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Exploring the creative, social and political potential of new technologies, the show focused on the liberation war of Tamil Eelam, an autonomous territory in Sri Lanka (the artist’s birthplace). Blurring the boundaries between historical research and fiction, online data and personal experience, the artist created video installations and paintings to explore primordial questions regarding identity, nationality and creativity and to portray an alternative, utopian reality. Eventually, the paper highlights how today’s new technologies and the consequent aesthetic and phenomenological experience can be exploited to structure an alternative political and philosophical thought.