Taking his most recent installation as a starting point, this lecture examines the role of AI in 564 Tracks (Not a Love Song Is Usually a Love Song) (2024), a spatial sound work addressing the cultural and sonic landscape preceding the Bosnian War (1992–1995). Trakilović explores political history through music and sound, combining it with a speculative use of AI to revisit Yugoslav music from the three years before the war. The work raises questions such as: How did rising political tensions resonate in music? Could the impending catastrophe already be detected sonically? It invites reflection on how cultural production might prefigure crises and offers a lens through which to examine past and present conflicts. The presentation provides an overview of Trakilović’s recent body of work, concluding with 564 Tracks as a way to question whether algorithmic processes can capture, express, or evoke the complexities of conflict.
Miloš Trakilović (*1989) is a Bosnian-Dutch artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. He holds a BFA and MFA from the University of Arts in Berlin, where he graduated from the Experimental Film and New Media Art department. His practice explores the politics of perceptibility, focusing on themes of dissolution, fragmentation, memory, and loss. Through time-based media and installation, he investigates how technological advancements and digitalization influence human perception, often in relation to contemporary warfare, its mediatization, and its lingering effects. Trakilović primarily works with digital and time-based media, with film, video, and installation as central elements of his practice.
His work has recently been presented at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2025); National Art Center, Tokyo (2024); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2023); Trafó Gallery, Budapest (2023); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2021); Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2021); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2020); and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin (2019); among others.
His works can be found in public collections such as those of the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin.
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Miloš Trakilović, 564 Tracks (Not a Love Song Is Usually a Love Song), 2024. Installation view of the exhibition Miloš Trakilović – Not a Love Song at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2025. Courtesy the artist, Photo: Frank Sperling.