When Art Reimagines Tech

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Intersections I: Art, Policy, and Political Discourse

Lecture & Talk

When Art Reimagines Tech

Paula Gaetano Adi (AR)

The winner of this year’s Golden Nica in the category Artificial Life & Intelligence reveals the process behind the award-winning project Guanaquerx. By building a robot that brings together different types of knowledge—the team included engineers from Hyundai’s New Horizons Studio, local artisans, bamboo specialists, teenage coders, weavers, muleteers, and historians—and reenacting the liberatory Crossing of the Andes from 1817, Paula Gaetano Adi hints at another kind of emancipation, and the possibility of an alternative technological future.

POSTCITY, First Floor, Conference Hall
Fri 5. Sep 2025 10:15 – 10:35

  • Paula Gaetano Adi

    Paula Gaetano Adi is an artist and Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Her work, grounded in the intersections of technoscience, decoloniality, and artificial life, calls for a poetic imagination that radically engages the world-making capacities of both technology and the arts. Her projects have been widely exhibited across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and she has received awards including VIDA, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Creative Capital Award.

Presented in the context of European Digital Deal. European Digital Deal is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport.