Speculative Species Evolution
This interdisciplinary workshop invites participants to explore speculative species evolution through artificial intelligence. Set against the backdrop of climate change and human impact on ecosystems, the workshop combines speculative approach with AI tools to create a collaborative catalog of imagined future species. Participants will have a field trip to capture images of local species and plants to use these images in their AI-experiments. Together we’ll explore the biological diversity around them while engaging in discussions about controlled evolution (human-directed changes) and alternative evolution (imagined natural adaptations). With a focus on AI-driven artistic expression, participants will learn to apply AI tools like img2img, video2video, and image2video to their collected images, transforming them to speculate on how plants, animals, and other organisms might evolve under anthropogenic pressures. This workshop will culminate in a collective art project—a speculative catalog of new species that documents the group’s findings and ideas about the future of life on Earth in the Anthropocene.
📅 Friday, April 4 – Digital Identity
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Participation Info
Ages: 15+
Duration: 4 hours
Location: Innovathens, 1st floor
Time: 17:30
📌 The registration form is individual for each participant. If you wish to register more than one person, please fill out a separate form for each.
🔹 A valid ticket for the corresponding day of the festival is required.
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Helena Nikonole
Helena Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator, researcher and educator based in Berlin. Her field of interests embraces AI, hacktivism, hybrid art and bio-semiotics. One part of her practice is dedicated to utopian scenarios of post-human future while another is focused on dystopian present and critical approach to technology. She presents talks, lectures and workshops in the field of Art & Science and AI & Art at different institutions including transmediale festival (Berlin), Paris College of Arts, Art Laboratory Berlin, Mutek Festival (Montreal and Tokyo), Leiden University, IMAL (Brussels) and many others. Her artistic work have been presented internationally by institutions and festivals such as Ars Electronica, ZKM Museum (Karlsruhe), CTM Festival (Berlin), Athens Digital Art Festival, Kapelica Gallery (Ljubljana), Chronus Art Center (Shanghai), Drugo More (Rijeka), Digital Art Zurich Festival, “YouFab Creative Award 2019 Winners Exhibition” SHIBUYA QWS (Tokyo), Open Source Body Festival 2022 (Paris), Warsaw Biennial 2022 etc. In 2019 Nikonole received a special prize from YouFab Creative Award (Tokyo, Japan). She was awarded the 2nd prize in Web-Art category by the Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) in 2021. In 2022 Quorum Sensing: Skin Flora Signal System project was nominated to the S+T+ARTS Prize of the European Commission and won Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023 in the Art & Science category. From autumn 2023 till spring 2024 Nikonole was a part of S+T+ARTS Hungry EcoCities Residency funded by Horizon Europe.