Helena Nikonole
About the Artist
Helena Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator and educator whose field of interests embraces hybrid art, bio-semiotics and Artificial Intelligence. According to Helena Nikonole, an artistic exploration of the potential possibilities (and also potential risks) of technologies is necessary to understand the context of modern technologically and media determined world.
She presents lectures and workshops in the field of Art & Science and AI & Art at different institutions including Rodchenko Art School (Moscow), Art Laboratory (Berlin), Mutek Festival (Montreal and Tokyo), ITMO University and many others.
Her work has appeared in exhibitions and festivals such as "Out of the Box" at Ars Electronica 2019, AI music Festival (Ars Electronica), "Persisting Realities" in the frame of CTM Festival (Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany), "Open Codes" ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, "Contagious Algorithms" at Drugo More (Rijeka, Croatia), IAM at GARAGE Museum Moscow, "YouFab Creative Award 2019 Winners Exhibition", SHIBUYA QWS, Tokyo, Japan, etc.
As a curator, she focuses on critical approaches to technology. This includes the exhibition "Learning Machines" which she co-curated together with artist and curator Alexei Shulgin, as well as a project "Datasets VS Mindsets: Post-Soviet Explorations of the Digital Control Society" (co-curated together with Olga Vad) at Ars Electronica Festival 2020.
