Lenovo Shows AI's Interpretation of Human Identity at Hotel Warszawa Art Fair

At the fifth edition of Hotel Warszawa Art Fair, held September 5-7, 2026 in the historic former Prudential building on Powstańców Warszawy Square, Lenovo presented an art installation blending contemporary art with artificial intelligence. The project "Before You Enter" was created in collaboration with the MELT MUSEUM collective and occupied two spaces in the hotel - Room 103 and the Lenovo & Motorola Showroom.

What Visitors See

The installation opens with a question meant to prompt reflection: what makes us feel human. Visitors first share their answers anonymously, then move through an immersive space made up of projections and digital narration. At its center is a female cyborg figure who interprets the participants' previously submitted reflections.

The second part of the project, the CYBERLENS technology itself, operates in the Lenovo & Motorola Showroom. The system consists of a camera and a computer equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card, which generates dozens of artistic interpretations of the viewer's image every second. The image reacts live to the participant's presence and movement, creating dynamically shifting compositions around the theme of digital identity.

Hardware Beyond Performance

For the occasion, Lenovo built the entire exhibition on its own consumer and business hardware - the installation runs on Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 tablets, the Yoga Book 9 laptop with a dual OLED display, the Yoga Pro 27UD-10 monitor and a desktop computer from the Legion T7 series. The company wanted to showcase its devices in a context different from the typical performance demos at hardware trade shows, such as September's IFA in Berlin, where Lenovo presented new laptops and its hybrid AI strategy for businesses.

We showed artificial intelligence from a different perspective: not as a tool for automation, but as a medium for dialogue, for inspiration - Ewelina Woldan, Communication Manager, Lenovo Polska

CYBERLENS reverses the usual timescale: instead of asking the computer about performance, we ask: what can you imagine? - Kuba Matyka, co-creator of MELT IMMERSIVE and MELT MUSEUM

AI as Artistic Medium, Not Work Tool

The project fits into a broader trend in which large tech companies are seeking contexts for generative AI far removed from the office and the factory floor. Instead of showcasing process automation or coding assistants, Lenovo opted for a sensory experience and a question about identity, aimed at an art-fair audience rather than an electronics-trade-show crowd.

Kuba Matyka described the visitor's role as that of a co-creator - in his view, the image generated by the system never takes a final form, since every interaction with the camera produces a new interpretation. This approach differs from typical generative AI demonstrations, which usually present a finished, repeatable effect.

Fair Context

Hotel Warszawa Art Fair is Poland's first contemporary art fair held in a hotel space, where individual rooms are turned for the duration of the event into standalone exhibitions curated by different galleries. The fifth edition brought together more than 30 galleries from Poland, Europe and the United States, which organizers described as the largest number of exhibitors in the event's history. In previous years, the fair drew around 10,000 visitors.

Lenovo's presence at an art fair rather than a typical tech conference shows that hardware companies increasingly treat generative AI as a cultural topic, not just a product one. For audiences in Poland, it's also a rare chance to see powerful RTX 5090-class graphics cards applied in an art project rather than in gaming or model training.