Digital Serendipity Exhibition Talk Series
Moderator: Helena Nikonole
Speakers: Anna Shustikova, Roman Solodkov
In the first event of artist talks series we invite Anna Shustikova and Roman Solodkov to talk about their projects, presented at Digital Serendipity exhibition and how these projects are incorporated in the context of their practice. We will critically examine and discuss problems specific to AI, such as "black box" problem and so-called biases - prejudices which AI can learn from collected data.
* This seminar is for free. Participation is limited to 120 people and the entrance invitations can be obtained 1 hour before the event from Akbank Sanat Info Desk. Events will be held in Turkish.
Helena Nikonole
Helena Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator and educator currently based in Istanbul. Her field of interests embraces hybrid art, bio-semiotics and Artificial Intelligence. One part of her work is dedicated to utopian scenarios of post-human future while another is focused on dystopian present and critical approach to technology.
Anna Shustikova
Anna (b.1992, Russia) began her artistic practice with documentary photography, but now she works both with material and digital objects, sculptures, installations, neural networks and generated images. She got a bachelor degree in physics and this influences her artwork: she is interested in using technologies, as well as different physical processes to transform materials. In her artwork she explores traces. They could be clearly expressed or barely perceptible, material or digital, the ones we try to ignore or those which we leave almost unknowingly. Those traces could have political effects, influence nowadays technologies and the future yet to come.
Roman Solodkov
Roman Solodkov (b. 1995) is an artist working with various digital media, game engines, visual programming, 3D-animation and phygital interactive installations. Currently studies at Rodchenko Art School.
His first education in biology with the focus on neuroscience seeps into his artistic practice, contributing to the interest in diagrams, data, algorithms, interfaces, digital corporeality, embodied cognition and biosemiotics.
He also teaches 3D-graphics and animation.