Varvara Guljajeva’s New Book and Art Exhibition at ISEA 2022
Assistant Professor Varvara Guljajeva’s New Book Published: The Meaning of Creativity in the Age of AI
We are pleased to announce that The Meaning
of Creativity in the Age of AI — a new book co-edited by our own Varvara
Guljajeva is out now. Published by the Estonian Academy of Arts, the book is
the result of a symposium Decoding New Technologies in Art and Design, which
took place on the 10th September 2020 at the Estonian Academy of Arts in situ
and also virtually as part of the Ars Electronica Gardens online program.
The main idea of the symposium and this publication is to develop an understanding and map the points of critical interest with regards to artificial intelligence (AI) and novel technological developments in general. The publication aims to decode the changes, new ideas, trends, and methodologies that this technology introduces into art and design. In addition, this publication presents new concepts, ideas, and dangers brought about by this developing technology, both now and in the future.
What can AI offer for creative communities? Is AI an aid for boosting creativity and innovation or is it replacing human creativity with automation? And what kind of impact may these computationally costly processes have on our environment?
Press Release: https://www.artun.ee/the-meaning-of-creativity-in-the-age-of-ai/
Editors: Raivo Kelomees, Varvara Guljajeva, Oliver Laas
Contributors: Varvara Guljajeva, Pau Waelder, Chris Hales, Mar Canet Solà, Jon Karvinen, Luba Elliot, Oliver Laas, Raivo Kelomees, Mauri Kaipainen, Pia Tikka, Sabine Himmelsbach
Assistant Professor Varvara Guljajeva’s Art Exhibition — ‘Psychedelic Trips’ Featured at ISEA 2022
Alalimón Galeria, Barcelona, presents the solo exhibition by the new media artist duo Varvara & Mar, now featured in the extended program of the 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Barcelona (ISEA).
This show is a meditation on the creative processes in the field of deep learning. The artworks exhibited manifest the search for aesthetics or psychedelic trips in the neural darkness of algorithmic processes and calculations, while pushing the limits of neural net as well as artists’ own imagination and the language of expression. Thus, the works presented at the exhibition can be seen as the results of psychedelic trips to latent space that artists have conducted.
The project demonstrates the translation of semiotic spaces, in this case from text to 3D mesh, that contributes to the augmentation of creativity. In other words, the irregular mutations can lead to new creations that would not have happened otherwise. Apart from the mutations within a system, an additional layer of transformation is introduced by the 3D printing process and material itself.
Project Link: https://isea2022.isea-international.org/event/alalimon-psychedelic-trips/
Varvara & Mar is a media art duo consisting of CMA’s Assistant Professor Varvara Guljajeva and CUDAN research fellow Mar Canet. Fascinated by artificial intelligence, kinetics, audience participation, and digital fabrication, the duo’s work confronts social changes and the impact of the technological era.
About Assistant Professor Varvara GULJAJEVA
Varvara GULJAJEVA
Assistant Professor
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PhD degree in Philosophy at the Estonian Academy of Arts
Email Address: varvarag@ust.hk
Personal Website: http://var-mar.info/
Research Interests:
Dataveillance
Experimental interfaces
Human-computer interaction
Robotics
System Interaction and Post-participation
AI
Digital fabrication
Physical computing
VR and AR
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Biography:
Dr Varvara Guljajeva has a PhD in Philosophy from the Estonian Academy of Arts, a master’s degree in digital media from ISNM, the University of Lübeck in Germany, and a bachelor’s degree in IT from Estonian IT College. Varvara Guljajeva is an artist and researcher. Currently, she holds the positions of researcher and guest Associate Professor in Textile at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Varvara has been invited as a visiting researcher to XRL, Hong Kong City University, IAMAS (Ogaki, Japan), LJMU (Liverpool, UK), Interface Cultures in the Linz University of Art and Design, Blekinge Institute of Technology (Karlshamn, Sweden).
As an artist, she works together with Mar Canet forming an artist duo Varvara & Mar. Often duo’s work is inspired by the information age. In their practice, they confront social changes and the impact of the technological era. The duo has been exhibiting in international shows since 2009. Their works have been shown at MAD in New York, FACT in Liverpool, Santa Monica in Barcelona, Barbican in London, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Ars Electronica museum in Linz, ZKM in Karlsruhe, and more.
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