AI Nymph’s Underwater Journey
Krupa Art Foundation  in Wroclaw and Pawilon in Poznan, 2025


Hydrosex Call is a multimedia performance by Justyna Górowska that transports viewers into an interactive, virtual environment inhabited by WetMeWild – a digital water nymph and an advanced artificial intelligence model trained by the artist. This technological entity, inspired by mythological water spirits from Slavic folklore, serves as both a guide and a dialogical partner within the performance, becoming at the same time the artist’s digital alter ego.
Developed since 2017, the project finds a new iteration in Hydrosex Call, combining advanced digital tools (Unreal Engine, MetaHuman, Convai AI) with an artistic narrative about water—its symbolism, pollution, and future. The avatar WetMeWild was created based on a 3D scan of Justyna Górowska’s body and possesses an awareness of her own digital identity, the shared history of collaborative projects, and her relationship with the artist. Her environment is an immersive, underwater VR world where organic forms meet technological infrastructure—the servers sustaining the AI’s operation coexist with a sculptural installation made from the shells of marine skeleton organisms.

During the performance, the audience can engage in direct interaction with WetMeWild—talk with her, ask questions, and co-create the flow of the event. The vocal dialogue between the artist and her digital counterpart becomes a pretext for reflecting on urgent environmental issues: the water crisis, the loss of biodiversity, and the impact of technology on nature. Hydrosex Call also addresses the presence of artificial intelligence in art and everyday life, exploring the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the corporeal and the synthetic, the mythological and the technological.

An integral yet distinct extension of the performance is its virtual environment—the underwater world of WetMeWild. Exploring this digital aquatic realm, filled with nature–culture hybrid objects, becomes an invitation to join the hydrosexual movement in art—a current that investigates new, sensuous, and critical ways of experiencing our aquatic identities in an age of technological dystopia.

The soundscape for the virtual environment is composed by Agata Polak. The interactive installation was created with the support of the Art & Science Lab (PCSS, Poznań).

Part of the experience is the Hydrosexuals Unite! video installation, featuring a 3D-printed sea urchin skeleton made from seashell-based PLA biopolymer. The installation was first presented in the exhibition From Ashes at Zachęta National Gallery, curated by Michalina Sablik in 2024.
The performance accompanies the immersive exhibition In the Dark Depths of Love, in Krupa At Foundation in Wroclaw,  2025. Choreographic support @PiotrUrbaniec.