Helena Nikonole

Helena Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator, and educator interested in technological progress and its implications. Embracing hybridity, new aesthetics, bio-semiotics, and Artificial Intelligence, Nikonole explores technology’s potential opportunities, risks, and dangers.

Nikonole focuses on the implications of new technologies that techno-evangelists and scientists are unable or unlikely to realise. She presents lectures and workshops in the field of Art and Science, and Machine Learning in arts 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, AI-Music Festival, Open Codes (ZKM, Karlsruhe), CTM Festival, and more.