Kristina Tica (*1995, Belgrade) completed her BA in Painting, University of Fine Arts and MA in Digital Arts, Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade and an MA in Interface Cultures, at Kunstuniversität Linz. She was a guest student at Central Saint Martins, UAL and Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.
Her practice is focused on practical and theoretical research in machine learning and critical AI. Using machine learning algorithms to create her works, she is addressing and questioning aesthetic and ethical elements of the implementation of such tools, following the current innovations in automated image-making and image-reading processes. Her body of work explores semiotic keys and visual languages in different media, such as painting, video, installation and generative new media art with elements of interactivity.
Her works have been exhibited at festivals such as Ars Electronica (AT) (2020, 2021, 2022), Speculum Artium (SI) (2020, 2021, 2022), European Open Science Forum Trieste (IT) (2020), The Wrong (2017, 2019, 2021). She is the recipient of the art+science AI Lab Award (RS) 2020. Her work has recently been presented in The Practice of Art and AI published by Hatje Cantz. She currently lives and works in Linz.
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LEONARDO NETWORK DIRECTORY
Her practice is focused on practical and theoretical research in machine learning and critical AI. Using machine learning algorithms to create her works, she is addressing and questioning aesthetic and ethical elements of the implementation of such tools, following the current innovations in automated image-making and image-reading processes. Her body of work explores semiotic keys and visual languages in different media, such as painting, video, installation and generative new media art with elements of interactivity.
Her works have been exhibited at festivals such as Ars Electronica (AT) (2020, 2021, 2022), Speculum Artium (SI) (2020, 2021, 2022), European Open Science Forum Trieste (IT) (2020), The Wrong (2017, 2019, 2021). She is the recipient of the art+science AI Lab Award (RS) 2020. Her work has recently been presented in The Practice of Art and AI published by Hatje Cantz. She currently lives and works in Linz.
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LEONARDO NETWORK DIRECTORY
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EDUCATION
2020-23 MA Interface Cultures, Kunstuniversität Linz
2017-20 MA Digital Arts, Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum Univeristy Belgrade
2017 Summer Programme: The Expanded Field of Drawing, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
2016 Study Abroad Programme: Contemporary Fine Art Practice, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
2013-17 BFA Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts Belgrade
EMPLOYMENT
2022 Project Manager at Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
2019-22 Gallery Assistant at Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade
2016-17 Art Director at ‘Hadži atelier-bar-gallery’, Belgrade
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Digital Prayer, Remont Gallery, Belgrade
2019 Cabaret Mystique, Le Studio Theatre, Belgrade
FESTIVALS
2022 Crossing the Bridge: Interface Cultures @ Ars Electronica Festival, JKU, Linz
2022 Speculum Artium, New Media Festival / Digital Big Screen 360, DDT, Trbovlje
2022 PROSTHETIC #3: ZERO AGENCY, The Wrong, online biennial, curated by Darko Vukić / co-organised by Kristina Tica
2021 Speculum Artium, New Media Festival, DDT, Trbovlje
2021 Interface Cult: Interface Cultures @ Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
2020 Speculum Artium, New Media Festival, DDT, Trbovlje
2020 Ars Electronica Garden Belgrade, In Kepler’s Gardens, Ars Electronica Festival, online + Linz
2020 Both Ways, EuroScience Open Forum, Trieste, curated by Maja Ćirić and Dobrivoje Lale Erić
2019 The Wrong, Prosthetic Pavilion Vol. 2, online + Remont Gallery, Belgrade, curated by Darko Vukić
2019 Festival S.U.T.R.A., Museum of Science and Technology, Belgrade, curated by Ivan Stanić
2018 5th Mr Vorky International One-Minute Film Festival, Ruma
2017 The Wrong, Prosthetic Pavilion, online, curated by Darko Vukić
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Im Auge der Infodemie (In the Eyes of the Infodemic), SPLACE, Linz, curated by Simone Barlian and Fina Esslinger
2022 Remix Culture: Interface Cultures@the AI&ART pavilion for Esch 2022, Belval / Esch zur Alzette
2022 DWHX x IC : online studios | Rup†ure!, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, online program
2022 refinerymonastery: 20th Pančevo Biennial, Pančevo, curated by Maja Ćirić
2022 An[Other] Creativity in AI, Wavelab, University of Theatre and Music, Munich, curated by Christl Baur
2022 Poetics of Obsolescence, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, curated by Indiara Di Benedetto and Gebhard Sengmüller
2022 New ULUS Members Exhibition, Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavillion, Belgrade
2021 Things To Come, KC Dorcol, Belgrade, curated by Brajan Vojinović
2021 Entanglements, U10 Art Space, Belgrade
2021 Trijenale male platike i crteža, ULUS, Umetnički paviljon Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade, curated by Kristina Sedlarević
2020 Sankt Interface, Interface Cultures, Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz
2020 Art+Science Lab, Magacin u Kraljevića Marka, Belgrade, curated by Maja Ćirić and Dobrivoje Lale Erić
2019 Phenomenon of Participation in Art, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, curated by Kristina Sedlarević
2014-19 Interventions 3 - 15, Magacin u Kraljevića Marka 4, Belgrade
2018 Bye, photography!, ARTGET Gallery, Belgrade Cultural Centre
2018 Department of Digital Arts Exhibition, Kvaka 22 [Catch 22], Belgrade
2018 [DE]Construction, Kvaka 22 [Catch 22] Gallery, Belgrade
2017 Lithography workshop’s 10th anniversary, Gallery of The Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade
2017 Drawings Exhibition, Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Belgrade
2017 The Expanded Field of Drawing Course Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2017 3rd International Print Triennial, Instytut Sztuki, Cieszyn
2015-17 Student’s Drawing and Sculpture Exhibition, Belgrade Youth Centre, Belgrade
2014 FESTUM, University of Arts Student Festival, Drawing Exhibition, SKC, Belgrade
2014 Awarded Students Exhibition, Gallery of The Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade
AWARDS
2020 art+science AI Lab National Selection Award, Center for the Promotion of Science, Belgrade
2018 Best Student’s Project for MA Digital Arts, Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade
2018 Best Serbian Film, 5th Mr Vorky International One-Minute Film Festival, Ruma
2014 Best Student’s Drawing of The Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade
PUBLISHED TEXTS
2024 “Computational Aesth-ethics”, Expanded Visualities: Photography and Emerging Technologies, Journal of Philosophy
and Photography, special issue (spring 2024), ed. Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert Kleanthis Neocleous and Andrew
Fisher / upcoming
2023 Computational Aesth-ethics: Understanding visual computation processes between the image and its context
2021 The Practice of Art and AI, Ars Electronica, Hatje Cantz (p.113)
2020 Fantazija o kiborgu?, Tag Net Magazine [srb] / Cyborg Fantasy?, Tag Net Magazine [eng]
CONFERENCES / PANELS
2023 xCoAx 2023, 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Weimar | presenter / upcoming
2022 06 International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT), Expanded Visualities: Photography and Emerging Technologies, Nicosia | presenter
2022 Social Marginalisation and Machine Learning: Defying the Labels of the Machinic Gaze, Autograph ABP Gallery, London + online | presenter
2022 Digital Day 2022 Conference: The end of the world as we know it, Belgrade | panel moderator
2022 Artificial Creativity, Wavelab: University of Music and Theater Munich, | guest presenter
2022 ART IN STEAM Conference 2022, Johannes Kepler Universität + online, Linz | presenter
2021 Follow the Current, panel discussion, Ars Electronica, Belgrade Garden | moderator, organiser
LECTURES / TALKS / INTERVIEWS / VIDEO
2022 DORFTV, Crossing the Brigde: Interface Cultures @Ars Electronica Festival
2022 ARA: Bistro, Luxembourg | exhibition introduction, 28/06/2022
2022 Kulturni Centar, RTS2 11/05/2022 [10’ 15” rs]
2021 FUTUREFALSEPOSITIVE, short interview, Interface Cultures @ Ars Electronica Festival
2020 Inside Festival: Serbia, Helsingør: From AI Lab to Collective Memories and Garden of Digital Prayers
2020 Artist Talk - Ars Electronica / In Kepler’s Gardens / Youtube
2020 Kulturni Dnevnik RTS 01/09/2020 [rs]
2020 Radio Beograd 2 emisija Digitalne Ikone 25/08/2020 [40’ rs]
2020 radio elementi: RadioAparat 28/06/2020 [rs]
2020 online razgovor o izložbi Digital Prayer u galeriji Remont 03/07/2020 [rs]
WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACE
2017 Mural Chess game, Market Road Gallery, London
WORKSHOPS AND OTHER PROJECTS
2014-19 Interventions 3 - 15, Magacin u Kraljevića Marka 4, Belgrade
2017 Creative Workshop assistance, Royal Docs Learning and Activity Centre, London
WORKS APPEARED IN SCENOGRAPHY
2019 Prom Queen, dir. Gvozden Ilić, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade
2017 Short Lives [28’ 30’’], dir. Jovan Dimoski, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade
2013 Pain [04’ 03’’], dir. Matija Milutinovic, Academy of Fine Arts Belgrade