Eva-Maria LOPEZ / Rasa SMITE / Moderator: Anett HOLZHEID
Splintered Realities Art Science festival 2022 RIXC GALLERY Riga
https://festival2022.rixc.org/
Anett HOLZHEID. Introducing NAIA – Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art association and Naturecultures Day
Eva-Maria LOPEZ. Natural Intelligence – Nature & Culture
Rasa SMITE. Art and Naturally Artificial Intelligences
Anett Holzheid. NatureCultures – Introduction by Moderator
Anett Holzheid (DE) is a humanities and media scholar currently working as scientific consultant at ZKM | Karlsruhe. She has lectured in the fields of culture and media studies at several German universities. After completing two graduate programs and further studies in digital information analysis, she earned her PhD with a dissertation on the history of media culture. Her research interests and curatorial work include artistic environments with a focus on transdisciplinary relations between classical and emerging media art genres. She has conceptualized mediation formats at the intersections of art, science, civic participation, and collaborative engagement.
Eva-Maria LOPEZ. Natural intelligence
In our anthropocentrically and anthropocenically calibrated age, it is about time to switch and refocus our perspective and begin to learn thoroughly from the “intelligence” of nature. For decades, nature’s ability to survive through intelligent adaptive processes has either been ignored, or not yet been fully understood.
NAIA will support artistic creation and research, and encourage further creative interdisciplinary practices that strive to find and shape new contact zones between art and science, nature and technology, sustainable enterprises and social engagement in the 21st century.
In my own media art practice, processes of transformation and adjustment in relation to non-human visibility have come to play a prime role for many years. In the scope of my current project “we resist.” (2022) I analyse the extent to which plants are capable of surviving in our contemporary environments. Following Darwin’s theory of evolution, this project will address the ability of plants to develop strong resistance to “man made” herbicides in a very short period of time: tacitly growing resistance will appear on the scene – both in living gardens and on photographs.
Eva-Maria Lopez is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher working in Karlsruhe and Paris.
Her artwork is occupied with issues relating to nature, society and the
environment due to her double background in art and agriculture.
