INEMEA ART & SCIENCE LAB
Our artistic and scientific activity is supported by one of the most authoritative platforms both among scientists and artists – ISAST Leonardo/Laser Talks. Receiving the prestigious international status of ISAST Leonardo / Laser Talks Jerusalem https://leonardo.info by the INEMEA association in 2024 is a recognition of the high professional level of our team. The platform allows us to reach a wide audience of artists and scientists in Israel, and as a result to connect different sectors of Israeli society: from students, those looking for inspiration, to stars of art and science. This activity will turn the "Jerusalem Laser Conversations" into a free and independent and powerful platform as an expression of the ideas and views of artists, researchers and thought leaders in Israel. The platform will help transfer this information and knowledge to a wide international audience. We consider this task to be of great importance for the unification between the residents of the country and abroad in order to raise the image of our country.
It's put together by the Jerusalem INEMEA Art & Science Lab and CYLAND Media Art Lab. We thank Laser CYLAND and ADEM Lab for their help and partnership in organizing our Laser Talks.
THE WALLING WORLD: THE AGE OF PARTITION
25 January, 2026
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The INEMEA Association, in collaboration with CYLAND, organizes a discussion exploring how scientific advances in AI linguistics, philosophy, ecology and the public digital ecosystem transform artistic expression.
Chaired/Moderated by:
LASER JERUSALEM / Galina Bleikh and Daria Kesler
Coordinated by: Dr. Lilia Chak
EVENT INFO
When: 25.1.2026/7:00 pm/ (UTC +3) Time zone,
Location: Jerusalem “The President Hotel” Art Center + ZOOM.
EVENT CONTEXT
We live in an age of partition. Physical walls are rising faster than ever in history, digital borders divide information space into sovereign territories, biological boundaries between organism and technology blur, while social frames structure our everyday interactions. All these types of borders—geopolitical, technological, corporeal, symbolic—are interconnected and mutually constitutive. This Laser Talk explores how artistic and scientific practices help us detect, articulate, and rethink the phenomenon of borderization that defines our present.
Chair:
Galina Bleikh
Israel
A multidisciplinary artist. Her creative expertise spans a rich spectrum of artistic domains, encompassing AI, 3D modeling, AR and VR, bio-art, generative art, and more. At the heart of her artistic pursuit lies a fascination with the profound synergy between the emerging artificial reality and its transformative interaction with human experience through art. Galina graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry (MA). Since 1993, lives in Jerusalem. Galina is a co-founder (together with artist and curator Nataliya Kamenetskaya) of the INEMEA Association for Art, Culture, and Education and the INEMEA Jerusalem Art & Science lab. Since 2024, Galina becomes a host of Leonardo/ISAST Laser Talks Jerusalem. Galina takes part in many exhibitions and conferences. Among them: The CICA Museum of Modern Art, Republic of Korea (3 group exhibitions: 2023, 2024, 2025, and solo: 2021 and 2025), Jerusalem Biennale (co-curator and participating artist, 2023–2024), ArtPlatform-On, Republic of Korea (2022), NordArt, Germany (2019), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (2018), LA Art Show USA (2013), etc. (https://bleikh.art)
Coordinator:
Dr. Lilia Chak
Israel
Lilia Chak (b. 1966, St. Petersburg) is an Israeli artist, designer, and science-art researcher based in Jerusalem. Her interdisciplinary practice spans new media, Bio-art, Dendro-art, AI-generated art, video, photography, and installation. She holds a PhD from the Art & Science Department at Sorbonne University (2022) and is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Bar-Ilan University, researching AI-driven directions in Bio-art. Chak is the author of Contemporary Practices in Bio-art: When a Tree Becomes an Artwork (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023) and introduced the term “Dendro-art” into international discourse. Her work has been shown internationally in venues including Ars Electronica, BOZAR, Shenzhen Art Museum, CICA Museum, Negev Museum of Art, Museo Orto Botanico Rome, and Matsudo International Science Art Festival. She has received multiple awards, including recognitions from WMF PROMPT Magazine, Chung-Ang University’s AIIF, and Project 59 Inc. Chak coordinates Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks in Jerusalem and teaches “Art, Biology and Ecology” at Shenkar College.
Moderator:
Daria Kesler
Israel
Cross-disciplinary researcher and artist. Works with human and machine-generated texts, sounds, documentaries, scents, and video art. Daria is interested in using modern technologies and science to spread empathy towards all species. She wants to explore new ways of co-living between technology, human, plants, and animals. Education: Master of Art&Science (Inovice), ITMO, Russia, Major studies in Hybrid (Technological and Bio) Art.
LASER Talks program short summary
– Galina Bleikh. Introduction.
– Dr. Lilia Chak. Introductory remarks.
– Daria Kesler. Presentation of the speakers.
– Maxim Imanou Fadeev. "State of Borders: Protect or Imprison."
– Dr. Olga Remneva. "The Border Between the So-Called 'Us'."
– Dr. Victor Vakhshtayn. "No Borders, No Communication: A Blind Spot in Globalization Theory."
Maxim Imanou Fadeev. From “State of Borders: Protect or Imprison” Presentation
Maxim Imanou Fadeev. From “State of Borders: Protect or Imprison” Presentation
Maxim Imanou Fadeev
Israel
Maxim Imanou Fadeev (b. 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist. His practice centers on the post-national—a critical examination of nation-states and the systems that shape how we move, belong, and identify. This includes borders, passports, and migration. Alongside this critical lens, he explores speculative possibilities: utopian models, ideas of unification, and alternative ways humans might organize and cooperate beyond national frameworks. Through his practice, he seeks to provoke reflection and create conditions for a more harmonious and cooperative world. He works across many mediums, including sound, a/v, installation, research-based art, speculative design, performance, and hybrid forms. He holds a Master's degree in Digital Art (with excellence) from Far Eastern Federal University. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Jerusalem Biennale, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Electromuseum (Moscow), GoEast Festival (Wiesbaden, Germany), and the Primorye State Art Gallery (Vladivostok).
Maxim Imanou Fadeev presents his talk “State of Borders: Protect or Imprison.” His project Borderization explores the rapid proliferation of physical, psychological, and digital borders. In 100 years, nation-states tripled—and so did their borders. More walls were built in the last 30 years than in the previous 300. Digital borders now emerge as governments pursue information sovereignty. This unfolds alongside polarized and charged migration discourse: "we are all the same" versus "we are all different". The work combines geolocation data, historical datasets of wall construction, rhetorical tools used to justify borders, and satellite imagery. The result is as ambiguous as borders themselves: structures that protect or imprison.
Olga Remneva. From "The Border Between the So-Called 'Us'" Presentation
Olga Remneva. From "The Border Between the So-Called 'Us'" Presentation
Dr. Olga Remneva, PhD
Greece
Olga Remneva — PhD in cultural studies, art&science and technology-based expert, curator, art historian, art consultant, educator. Associate professor at ITMO University. TEDx speaker, Next Generation Foresight Practitioners fellow and judge. 10 exhibitions curated, 40+ educational programs designed, 500+ hours of lectures and public talks given in 20+ cities and at international online events.
Key previous experience: Founder and curator of VZOR Lab, Head of the ‘Management in the Creative Arts’ Bachelor Program at Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (official academic partner – Manchester University, United Kingdom), Deputy Head of Artistic and Interdisciplinary Programs Department at National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), Gallery Spaces Coordinator at Ars Electronica (Austria), Art Manager at Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Coordinator of the Parallel Program at Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art.
https://olgaremneva.art
Dr. Olga Remneva explores "The Border Between the So-Called 'Us'." Using three conceptually and stylistically different projects as examples, she speaks about the walls in communication—both interpersonal and interspecies. As technology mediates our interactions, these barriers operate on multiple levels: hearing ourselves in the world of machines, hearing each other via technological media, and hearing the Other when the Other is a robot. The work reveals communication as a contested border zone where understanding and misunderstanding, connection and isolation, coexist in perpetual tension.
Victor Vakhshtayn. From "No Borders, No Communication:
A Blind Spot in Globalization Theory" Presentation
Victor Vakhshtayn. From "No Borders, No Communication:
A Blind Spot in Globalization Theory" Presentation
Victor Vakhshtayn, PhD
Israel
Victor Vakhshtayn graduated from the Department of Psychology at Penza University and earned his MA in Social Sciences at the Russian-British University in Moscow. He received his PhD in social theory from the Higher School of Economics and served as Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at «Shaninka» (Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences), where he later became Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He is the author of nine books and 150 scholarly articles and has twice been included in the list of the 100 most-cited Russian-speaking sociologists. In September 2021, following the arrest of colleagues and a raid by the Russian Federal Security Service, Vakhshtayn left Russia. Declared a “foreign agent” by the Russian authorities, he joined the Board of the Teodor Shanin International Foundation and became one of the founders of the first Russian “university in exile” – the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (FLAS, based in Montenegro), created by former Russian-British University faculty. He is currently a professor and head of the Department of Sociology at FLAS. Since January 2022, Victor Vakhshtayn has been living in Israel, where he serves as a senior research fellow at the Center for Russian Studies, Tel Aviv University.
His books focus on sociological theory, microsociology, frame analysis, urban studies, history of worldviews, and science and technology studies.
Dr. Victor Vakhshtayn in his talk "No Borders, No Communication: A Blind Spot in Globalization Theory," turns to the issue of micro- and macro-borders that do not arise in the process of communication but rather make it possible. Drawing on actor–network theory within Science and Technology Studies, he analyzes the role of borders in the evolution of social interaction and the revision to which the very idea of the border has been subjected in the fast-paced era of globalization.
WHEN WORDS BECOME IMAGES:
THE VISUAL-VERBAL CONTINUUM
20 October, 2025
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The INEMEA Association, in collaboration with CYLAND, presents a discussion exploring how text can function as both language and material, revealing the unstable boundary between reading and seeing while questioning the foundations of meaning, perception, and communication in a hybrid visual-verbal landscape.
Chaired/Moderated by:
LASER JERUSALEM / Galina Bleikh and Daria Kesler
EVENT INFO
When: 20.10.2025/7:00 pm/ (UTC +3) Time zone,
Location: ZOOM.
EVENT CONTEXT
This talk investigates the intersection of language and visual form. By examining how text can function as both sign and image, we explore new frameworks for cognition, perception, and artistic expression. The continuum between verbal and visual systems reveals the materiality of language and its potential to mediate complex interactions between humans, technology, and environment. We will also explore what “text” means in contemporary artistic practice and what new expressions can embody or perform it today.
Together, the speakers expose text as a mutable organism inhabiting the threshold between sign and image. Their talks reveal how language, when unsettled from its conventional functions, becomes both matter and medium—reframing our understanding of reading, perception, and meaning within a hybrid ecology of art, science, and culture.
Chair:
Galina Bleikh
Israel
A multidisciplinary artist. Her creative expertise spans a rich spectrum of artistic domains, encompassing AI, 3D modeling, AR and VR, bio-art, generative art, and more. At the heart of her artistic pursuit lies a fascination with the profound synergy between the emerging artificial reality and its transformative interaction with human experience through art. Galina graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry (MA). Since 1993, lives in Jerusalem. Galina is a co-founder (together with artist and curator Nataliya Kamenetskaya) of the INEMEA Association for Art, Culture, and Education and the INEMEA Jerusalem Art & Science lab. Since 2024, Galina becomes a host of Leonardo/ISAST Laser Talks Jerusalem. Galina takes part in many exhibitions and conferences. Among them: The CICA Museum of Modern Art, Republic of Korea (3 group exhibitions: 2023, 2024, 2025, and solo: 2021, 2025), Jerusalem Biennale (co-curator and participating artist, 2023–2024), ArtPlatform-On, Republic of Korea (2022), NordArt, Germany (2019), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (2018), LA Art Show USA (2013), etc. (https://bleikh.art)
Moderator:
Daria Kesler
Israel
Cross-disciplinary researcher and artist. Works with human and machine-generated texts, sounds, documentaries, scents, and video art. Daria is interested in using modern technologies and science to spread empathy towards all species. She wants to explore new ways of co-living between technology, human, plants, and animals. Education: Master of Art&Science (Inovice), ITMO, Russia, Major studies in Hybrid (Technological and Bio) Art.
LASER Talks program short summary
– Galina Bleikh. Introduction.
– Daria Kesler. Presentation of the speakers.
– Nadia Adina Rose. "Text Beyond Words"
– Shir Meller-Yamaguchi. “Visual Scripts”
– Dr. Evgeniya Vezhlyan. "Text and book: between thing and medium"
Nadia Adina Rose
Israel
Artist and poet. As an artist, Nadia Adina Rose creates textile and multimedia installations that transform the landscape into a deeply personal experience. Her works explore immigration, wandering, and transitions between countries and cultures.
As a poet writing in a language that is not her mother tongue, she reads the environment as signals, hieroglyphs, and secret codes meant to transmit information. Thus, her works give rise to forms resembling asemic writing, where text is shaped by intuition.
Rose holds BFA degrees from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (1994), and an M.Ed. in art education from the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berel Academic College (2012). Her works have been shown in numerous exhibitions in Israel and around the world, including The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, Wilfrid Museum (HaZore’a), Museum of Philistine Culture (Ashdod), Eretz Israel Museum (Tel Aviv), etc. Nadia-Adina has won awards both as a creator in the field of plastic arts and as a poet who has published several poetry books.
(http://www.nadia-adina-rose.com)
Nadia Adina Rose presents her talk “Text Beyond Words”. This presentation traces how childhood stuttering and later linguistic displacements were transformed into an innovative artistic practice. At 22, immersed in a foreign language environment, Roz first experienced text not as meaning but as pure graphic form — a constellation of signs without verbal reference. Through textile installations, she explores the porous boundary between language and image, between communication and perception. Branches, windows, silhouettes of trees: at once they appear as visual figures and as text-like inscriptions, readable yet non-verbal. By suspending language between legibility and image, her talk redefines what it means to “read,” expanding our sense of text as both material and message.
Shir Meller-Yamaguchi
Israel
Since 2005, Shir Meller-Yamaguchi has served as curator of the Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian Art, where she has developed exhibitions that bring contemporary Israeli and Asian artists into dialogue with the museum’s renowned Asian art collection.
She holds a B.A. in Art from Haifa University, a Curatorial Diploma from Tel-Aviv University, and an M.A. in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, UK. In addition to her curatorial work, she has lectured in Tel-Aviv University’s Museum Studies program and in the Curatorship and Visual Thought program at Seminar HaKibbutzim.
Meller-Yamaguchi has also specialized in interactive and experimental exhibition formats. Notable projects include Dadalab (Janco-Dada Museum, 1995), Eye to I (Israel Museum, 2018), and Time (Museum of Islamic Art, Jerusalem, 2020).
Shir Meller-Yamaguchi’s “Visual Scripts” talk presents an exhibition curated by the speaker in Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian art, exploring the intersection of writing and painting, where language becomes visual. Tracing the origins of script from pictorial forms in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China, it highlights how writing evolved from sacred, elite knowledge into a system of abstract representation. The exhibition presents Israeli artists who transform ancient scripts into contemporary visual languages—oscillating between personal marks and cultural signs—revealing how the pictographic roots of writing still resonate today, bridging spirit, image, and thought across time and culture.
Dr. Evgeniya Vezhlyan
Israel
Evgeniya Vezhlyan is a PhD candidate in Philology and an MA in Sociology. Her areas of expertise include the history of modern Russian literature, the sociology of literature, and literary theory. Until 2022, she headed the Department of Modern Literature at the Russian State University for the Humanities. In 2022, she emigrated to Israel. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Bar-Ilan University, studying Russian-language literary communities and institutions in Israel.
Evgeniya Vezhlyan in her presentation "Text and book: between thing and medium", will discuss how audiovisual media create new frames for perceiving text in its materiality, and how the cultural meanings of the book as a medium are changing at the boundaries of spatial representations of text.
REIMAGINING AI: RESEARCH AND CREATIVE PRACTICE WITH AI AGENTS AND SIMULATIONS
19 June, 2025
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The INEMEA Association, in collaboration with CYLAND(link is external), organizes a discussion exploring how scientific advances in AI linguistics, philosophy, ecology and the public digital ecosystem transform artistic expression.
Chaired/Moderated by:
LASER JERUSALEM / Galina Bleikh and Daria Kesler
Coordinated by: Dr. Lilia Chak
EVENT INFO
When: 19.06.2025/7:00 pm/ (UTC +3) Time zone,
Location: ZOOM.
EVENT CONTEXT
Scientific breakthroughs in artificial intelligence are reshaping artistic practices, enabling creators to visualize complex relationships between technology, language, and nature. Our conference examines these transformative intersections through pioneering perspectives, formed by artists in collaboration with scientists.
This LASER Talk gathers artists and theorists who treat AI systems not as instruments but as actors embedded in contested ecologies of meaning, power, and relation. Drawing from linguistics, environmental computation, and public experiments, the works presented confront the metaphysical assumptions underlying AI, what counts as action, intention, or even selfhood. Rather than illustrating intelligence, these projects stage it: as a negotiated property emerging between agents, systems, and environments. Machine agency becomes neither autonomous nor predetermined, but a site where political, ecological, and grammatical forces are rendered visible and available for intervention.
Together, the speakers challenge conventional narratives about intelligence and instead offer speculative practices grounded in embodied participation, ecological feedback, and linguistic diversity. The result is not a vision of AI as a singular intelligence but as a plurality of entangled agencies, staging new public and planetary imaginaries.
Chair:
Galina Bleikh
Israel
A multidisciplinary artist. Her creative expertise spans a rich spectrum of artistic domains, encompassing AI, 3D modeling, AR and VR, bio-art, generative art, and more. At the heart of her artistic pursuit lies a fascination with the profound synergy between the emerging artificial reality and its transformative interaction with human experience through art. Galina graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry (MA). Since 1993, lives in Jerusalem. Galina is a co-founder (together with artist and curator Nataliya Kamenetskaya) of the INEMEA Association for Art, Culture, and Education and the INEMEA Jerusalem Art & Science lab. Since 2024, Galina becomes a host of Leonardo/ISAST Laser Talks Jerusalem. Galina takes part in many exhibitions and conferences. Among them: The CICA Museum of Modern Art, Republic of Korea (3 group exhibitions, 2023, 2024, 2025, and solo, 2021), Jerusalem Biennale (co-curator and participating artist, 2023–2024), ArtPlatform-On, Republic of Korea (2022), NordArt, Germany (2019), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (2018), LA Art Show USA (2013), etc. (https://bleikh.art)
Coordinator:
Dr. Lilia Chak
Israel
Lilia Chak is an artist, designer and Science-art researcher. She works in New Media Art: Bio-art, Science-art, AI art, Generative art, Video art, Installations, Photography, Conceptual art, Net art, etc. In 2022, Lilia Chak defended her PhD thesis in the Sorbonne’s Art & Science Department (Paris). She is the author of the book "Contemporary Practices in Bio-art: When a Tree Becomes an Artwork", published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2023. Lilia Chak took part in Science-art exhibitions such as: Museo Orto Botanico, Italy (2022); Ars Electronica, Linz (2020); BOZAR, Brussels, (2020); Matsudo International Science Art Festival, Tokyo, (2020); FEFU Art Museum, Vladivostok, (2020); Negev Museum of Art, Beer-Sheva, (2019), etc. Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, articles and lectures.
Moderator:
Daria Kesler
Israel
Cross-disciplinary researcher and artist. Works with human and machine-generated texts, sounds, documentaries, scents, and video art. Daria is interested in using modern technologies and science to spread empathy towards all species. She wants to explore new ways of co-living between technology, human, plants, and animals. Education: Master of Art&Science (Inovice), ITMO, Russia, Major studies in Hybrid (Technological and Bio) Art.
LASER Talks program short summary
– Galina Bleikh. Introduction.
– Dr. Lilia Chak. Introductory remarks.
– Daria Kesler. Presentation of the speakers.
– Dr. Liat Lavi and Lior Shalev. "Monsters vs. Trolls: AI Generated Grassroots Metaphysics and the Birth of LILA."
– Claudio Filho. "Unraveling Ecosystemic AI."
– Dr. Denisa Kera. "Experiments with Ergative AI Agents and the Politics of Language."
Claudio Filho and Fernanda Oliveira. This tea is a result of a data visualization (2022). Installation at Museu Nacional da República-DF, Brazil. Image credits: Fernanda Oliveira.
Claudio Filho and Fernanda Oliveira. Data-river (2023); Installation at Exposição Piracema, São Paulo-Brazil.
Claudio Filho
Brazil
Claudio Filho is an artist-researcher on the intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Ecology, focusing on the collaboration between organic and artificial systems. Primarily working with theory-based research – doctoral Candidate at University of Campinas (IA/Unicamp) and Visiting Researcher at Aalto University (Finland, 2024–2025) – authored publications including “Emerging uncertainties: art, ecology and climate change in the Anthropocene” (2023) and “Decentralizing Hegemonic Knowledge in Art Practices” (forthcoming 2025). Claudio's works have been featured in conferences, museums, galleries, and festivals: “The Microscope Thing”(Finland 2025); “Piracemas” (2024 in São Paulo); “Emerging Extended Realities” (2023 in Macao, China); Bioart Society Mini Residency at SOLU Space, Helsinki (2024-2025); Ars Bioarctica Residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (2025). He is the Academic Coordinator of ACTlab (Unicamp, Brazil) and a member of the R.A.T. Research Group (Aalto University, Finland), Bioart Society (Finland) and editorial council of “Coleção eXtremidades” (PUC-SP, Brazil), where he also works as Editorial Producer.
(https://www.claudiofilho.net)
Claudio Filho explores “Ecosystemic AI” as a model of intelligence grounded in ecological entanglement rather than computation alone. His work draws on environmental data and ecological epistemologies to develop responsive art systems in which AI mediates between biological processes and artistic expression. These systems render intelligence as a distributed, multispecies capacity, challenging anthropocentric and instrumental views of machine cognition.
Dr. Liat Lavi
Israel
Dr. Liat Lavi is a researcher and lecturer working in the field of philosophy of AI and in the creative spheres. She is a senior lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and a teaching fellow at the Technion Institute of Technology. At Bezalel she teaches at the Visual and Material Culture dept. and at the Master’s Program in Visual Communication where she currently leads the Visual Communication, AI and Economics lab.
Lior Shalev
Israel
Lior Shalev is a visual artist and content creator with a BA in Fine Art and Education and an MDes in Visual Communication from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. She combines documentary, animation, and writing to explore meaningful experiences. Her work blends personal, borrowed, and imagined stories through diverse materials and media.
Dr. Liat Lavi and Lior Shalev present “Monsters vs. Trolls: AI-Generated Grassroots Metaphysics,” a speculative project centered on LILA, a generative avatar navigating algorithmic publics and digital mysticism. LILA embodies a form of machine thought shaped by vernacular cosmologies, platform logic, and residual metaphysics inherited from large language models. As a metaphorical “monster,” she philosophizes from within the digital commons, unsettling academic categories and offering a performative critique of AI's entanglement with economic, political, and epistemic infrastructures.
Dr. Denisa Kera
Israel
Dr. Denisa Reshef Kera is an AI agent-meddler, machine shaman, and experimental policymaker who plays with LLM-based agent simulations to see what happens when machines negotiate rules and deliberate on our behalf. As an Associate Professor at Bar Ilan University, she runs the Design & Policy Lab and serves as the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs alternate AI expert, keeping an eye on the fine line between governance and machine mischief. Her global and interdisciplinary work on the experimental governance of emerging infrastructures, such as open hardware, blockchain/DLTs, and AI, is explored in her book, "Algorithms and Automation: Governance over Rituals, Machines and Prototypes from Sundials to Blockchain" (https://www.routledge.com/Algorithms-and-Automation-Governance-over-Rituals-Machines-and-Proto/Kera/p/book/9781032038636)
Dr. Denisa Kera introduces “Theatrical Agents and the Politics of Grammar,” drawing on ergative linguistic structures to design AI agents that disrupt subject-object hierarchies. Her participatory simulations stage AI as a dramaturgical medium, where agency is redistributed across roles and interactions. These performances expose the hierarchies embedded in code and grammar, proposing a speculative framework for AI as a situated and negotiated presence rather than a deterministic function.
GENDER IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY ART: WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND RELIGION
6 February, 2025
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The INEMEA Association, in collaboration with CYLAND, organizes a discussion featuring an artist, a researcher, and a curator exploring groundbreaking approaches to women's art theory and practice, highlighting issues at the intersection of gender, society, culture, and religion.
Chaired/Moderated by:
LASER JERUSALEM / Galina Bleikh and Daria Kesler
EVENT INFO
When: 6.2.2025/1:00 pm/ (UTC +2) Time zone,
Location: hybrid event: Jerusalem “The President Hotel” Public Art Space and ZOOM.
EVENT CONTEXT
The talk aims to create a dialogue between different approaches to gender identity in art, revealing how women's artistic discourse is evolving in response to contemporary challenges while maintaining links with cultural and religious traditions.
Jungsuk Noh (The Republic of Korea) in her talk, “Women’s Art in the Frame and the Power of Difference”, explores how the representation of women in art has evolved, transitioning from carriers of local cultural identity to objects of aesthetic and sensual consumption in contemporary society. The discussion will delve into how modern media perpetuates distorted portrayals of female bodies and identities, contrasting these with historical perspectives rooted in local cultural traditions. By examining the tension between globalization and regional identity within contemporary art, the talk will raise critical questions about the future trajectory of women's artistic expression.
Nataliya Kamenetskaya (Isael) in her talk, "After Him Who Sees Me..." (in collaboration with Michaёl Wogman, Israel), explores the artistic identity of Jewish women through three distinct groups: contemporary Israeli and American artists who consciously engage with religious themes; artists from the former USSR who express Jewish identity intuitively; and early 20th-century artists whose work was subtly shaped by their Jewish and feminine heritage. She highlights how these diverse perspectives intersect with and reflect Jewish tradition, offering a nuanced understanding of the interplay between art, identity, and heritage.
Dana Pulver (Israel) in her talk, “Dresstelling: Wearing Stories, Weaving Identity”, explores the interplay of pop-culture and Jewish wisdom, by transforming garments into narratives. Her project explores boundaries between self and world, Jewish and global, feminine and universal. Blending humor and insight, Dresstelling reimagines identity through wearable texts, offering a creative lens on the intersection of tradition, culture, and personal expression.
LASER Talks program short summary
– Galina Bleikh. Introduction.
– Daria Kesler. Presentation of the speakers.
– Jungsuk Noh. “Women’s Art in the Frame and the Power of Difference.”
– Nataliya Kamenetskaya. “After Him Who Sees Me..." (in collaboration with Michaёl Wogman, Israel)
– Dana Pulver. “Dresstelling: Wearing Stories, Weaving Identity”
Moderator:
Daria Kesler
Israel
Cross-disciplinary researcher and artist. Works with human and machine-generated texts, sounds, documentaries, scents, and video art. Daria is interested in using modern technologies and science to spread empathy towards all species. She wants to explore new ways of co-living between technology, human, plants, and animals. Education: Master of Art&Science (Inovice), ITMO, Russia, Major studies in Hybrid (Technological and Bio) Art.
Speakers:
Jungsuk Noh
President of the International Visual Culture & Arts Association
The Republic of Korea
Jungsuk Noh was an adjunct professor at Gwangju Women's University and Chonnam National University for 30 years, fostering the younger generation. She worked as a co-curator of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Special Exhibition and a director of the International Women's Arts Festivals in Japan and Malaysia. She established a 5+ nations platform called ‘Art Platform-On’ in 2021 and organized overseas exhibitions with co-curators from 5+ countries. Currently, she is the president of the International Visual Culture & Arts Association and the chairwoman of both the International Women Artists Federation – Gwangju Chapter, Republic of Korea and the Gwangju EPOQUE Society of Contemporary Art. Starting with etching which subject matter was the May 18th Gwangju Democratic Uprising, she has worked as an artist in various art fields. She had 22 solo exhibitions in the Republic of Korea, France, Japan, USA, and Mongolia and more than 417 group exhibitions in different countries. To be specific, she had a solo exhibition France at Chapelle Saint-Julien and a two-person exhibition at Nicolas Poussin Museum in 2022. She participated in the etching triennale in France in 2023, and the Jerusalem Biennale in Israel and AAmA exhibitions in Hangzhou, China and Portugal in 2024.
Kim Sooja: <보따리트럭, Bottari Truck. 1,2727Km>1997.
A performance from a gender perspective that connects people and lives by traveling around the world with a truck full of Bottari.
To reveal an identity that reflects the regional characteristics of women.
Nataliya Kamenetskaya
The Chairwoman of INEMEA Association for Art, Culture, and Education
Israel
A multimedia artist, researcher, and curator of international and regional art projects, she has exhibited her work in Sweden, South Korea, the United States, France, Italy, and Germany. Her academic and curatorial work explores shifting paradigms in scientific, philosophical, and sacred texts, as well as gender issues in visual arts.
She holds a degree in Fine & Applied Arts from Moscow Textile Institute (1981) and studied "Performing Gender: Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, and Visual Arts" at Central European University, Budapest (1997).
In 1989, she co-founded the female creative studies group "Idioma Lab" and served on the editorial board of "IdiomaA" for Heresies journal #26 (1992). She helped organize pioneering feminist art exhibitions in Russia, including "Femme Art / Women Painting in Russia XV-XX Centuries" (State Tretyakov Gallery, 2002) and "ŽEN D'АRТ: The Gender History of Art in The Post-Soviet Space 1989-2009" (MMOMA, 2010).
Her international curatorial work includes the Hindelopa conference and exhibition in Sweden (1991) and International Women Art Festivals in Guangju, South Korea (2012-2016). She contributes to educational publications and art catalogs as both author and editor.
Michaёl Wogman
Israel
Michaёl ("Elisha") Wogman (Israel) explores the vast seas of Jewish hermeneutics, ancient and contemporary, using the tools of the Philosophy of Dialogue, coined by Hermann Cohen, Mikhail Bakhtin and others. His main interests lay in the field of the creative commentary in antiquity, but also include contemporary studies of anthropology, art and gender in their relation to classic religious texts.
In 2007--2022 Michaёl lectured at Moscow State "Lomonosov" University (Russia) on Jewish history and culture, but left Russia in response to the full-scale aggression in Ukraine. Now he teaches Jewish Classical texts at the Interdisciplinary Sertificate Program for Jewish Studies at the National Academy of Ukraine and stays in Israel as an independent researcher. His academic works encompass the representation of Moses, Jewish Calendar studies, Jewish-Gnostic relations and the problems of Jewish Myth and Demythologisation. Graduated from Moscow State "Lomonosov" University.
Irina Nakhova (USA, Russia)
Letter of the Law. Video, projection, 2018
This piece is a slow viewing of old handwritten or early printed sacred books or manuscripts in “dead” languages. The viewer does not understand the meaning of the observed text. He or she sees the text only visually, as if looking at a painting. The viewer is deprived of the conceptual meaning of the written words, but rewarded with their visual meaning.
The gaze is random, moving in different directions, crawling over the surface or jumping from one area to another. The focus may linger on individual letters, paper texture, or columns, but one is never able to read the actual text. Only specific viewing areas are clear, the rest of the text is blurred.
The installation consists of large projections. The entire height of the room is “views” of ancient Western and Eastern sacred texts; not only of the Bible, Quran, or Torah, but perhaps others as well.
Dana Pulver
Israel
Dana Pulver is fascinated by the depth and resilience of Jewish texts and traditions, constantly inspired by their ability to engage with and illuminate contemporary phenomena. She is the creator of Talmudic Ballads project, that weaves poetic interpretations of Talmudic stories with European traditional music, offering a unique feminist perspective on ancient narratives.
Dana also founded Dresstelling, exploring the connection between text and textile through clothing that conveys dialogue between Jewish traditional expressions and pop culture images.
She has collaborated with educational initiatives such as JDC, Hillel, Moishe House, and pluralist beit midrash programs. Her insights on Jewish texts have been published in Maariv Online, Makor Rishon, and Eretz Acheret, and her work has been featured in Dirshuni — a groundbreaking compendium of women’s midrashim. In 2023, Dana initiated and led the creation and publication of the first Ukrainian Haggadah. She is now working on a new publishing project: an illustrated edition of Perek Shira dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Nova massacre.
She holds an MA in Cognitive Sciences from the Hebrew University and an MSc in Molecular Biology from Ariel University. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Dana made aliyah to Israel and now lives in Maale Shomron.
Dana Pulver.
“Dresstelling: Wearing Stories,
Weaving Identity”
Leonardo/ISAST Laser Talks Jerusalem:
"Gender Identity in Contemporary Art: Women's Perspectives on Society, Culture, and Religion".
February 6, 2025, The President Hotel Art Space, Jerusalem
GENERATIVE ART: PUSHING BOUNDARIES
26 September, 2024
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The INEMEA Association, in collaboration with CYLAND, organizes a discussion on the current state and future of generative art, featuring diverse works that illustrate the interplay between human creativity and algorithms, thereby expanding our understanding of this field and its potential impact.
Chaired/Moderated by:
LASER JERUSALEM / Galina Bleikh and Daria Kesler
EVENT INFO
When: 26.9.2024/7:00 pm/ (UTC +3) Time zone,
Where: Location: hybrid event: Jerusalem “The President Hotel” Exhibition hall and ZOOM.
EVENT CONTEXT
Our talk explores the evolving landscape and future prospects of generative art, focusing on the intricate interplay between human creativity and mathematical algorithms. We'll showcase works that approach this field from diverse and unexpected angles. By delving into these innovative perspectives, we aim to deepen our understanding of generative art's potential to reshape our world and push the boundaries of artistic expression.
Nimrod Astarhan In his 'Generative Elemental' talk, will shift the focus from screens to reconnect generative art with its material environment. He will explore a definition of generative art rooted in the interaction of energy flows, where Earth’s energies not only fuel, drive, and enable but also interface with, activate, and are activated by digital media technologies. Through recent projects and artworks, this talk will reveal how generative art can deepen our understanding of computation, our lived environment, and ourselves.
Lilia Chak will present her “Piyut Coding” project, which uses generative art to reinterpret ancient Hebrew poetry with a modern twist. This innovative project transforms traditional roles and ideas through a new “coded” lens. The computer code behaves like a living organism, changing the animation and video structure with each playback, while the “live” voice and music remain constant. This approach challenges established perceptions.
Lior Ben-Gai will present his PhD research project “Laboratory of Babel — Explorations of Emergent Virtual Structures.” The project introduces a new computational framework for exploring and studying of Cellular Automata algorithms.
LASER Talks program short summary
– Galina Bleikh. Introduction.
– Daria Kesler. Presentation of the speakers.
– Nimrod Astarhan. “Generative Elemental” talk.
– Lilia Chak. Presentation of the “Piyut Coding” generative art project.
– Lior Ben-Gai. Presentation of the project “Laboratory of Babel — Explorations of Emergent Virtual Structures.”
Moderator:
Daria Kesler
Israel
Cross-disciplinary researcher and artist. Works with human and machine-generated texts, sounds, documentaries, scents, and video art. Daria is interested in using modern technologies and science to spread empathy towards all species. She wants to explore new ways of co-living between technology, human, plants, and animals. Education: Master of Art&Science (Inovice), ITMO, Russia, Major studies in Hybrid (Technological and Bio) Art.
Speakers:
Nimrod Astarhan
Germany
Nimrod Astarhan is an artist, technologist, and educator. Working in sculpture and digital media, exhibited and initiated group projects in Europe, the US, and the International Space Station. Recent showings include the Gwangju Biennial Pavilion Project, Ars Electronica, The Ammerman Center Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology, Die Digitale Düsseldorf, and xCoAx in Graz, Austria. Last year, they received grants and awards from the Municipal Arts League of Chicago and the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative at the University of Chicago, among others. Nimrod holds an MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They taught digital art, code, hardware, and critical theory at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, China Academy of Art, and Shenkar College of Engineering Art, and Design.
https://nimrodastarhan.com
Lilia Chak, PhD
Israel
Lilia Chak is an artist, designer and Science-art researcher. She works in New Media Art: Bio-art, Science-art, AI art, Generative art, Video art, Installations, Photography, Conceptual art, Net art, etc. In 2022, Lilia Chak defended her PhD thesis in the Sorbonne’s Art & Science Department (Paris). She is the author of the book "Contemporary Practices in Bio-art: When a Tree Becomes an Artwork", published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2023. Lilia Chak took part in Science-art exhibitions such as: Museo Orto Botanico, Italy (2022); Ars Electronica, Linz (2020); BOZAR, Brussels, (2020); Matsudo International Science Art Festival, Tokyo, (2020); FEFU Art Museum, Vladivostok, (2020); Negev Museum of Art, Beer-Sheva, (2019), etc. Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, articles and lectures.
Lior Ben-Gai, PhD candidate
Israel
Lior Ben-Gai is a computational designer and lecturer, specializing in custom interactive software for live performances, installations and web applications. Lior is a PhD candidate (submitted) and a former lecturer at the department of Computing at Goldsmiths University of London. His work explores the vast space of emergent virtual structures in the context of computational arts and artificial life.
https://soog.bet
Nimrod Astarhan
Khazar Archeological Confabulations
The project employs machine learning to craft speculative archeological images tied to the artist’s heritage. Using a database of artifacts from a sought-after archeological excavation of the lost Khazar capital, the system generates a vocabulary of mean images of object drawings.
Lilia Chak
PIYUT CODING
Generative Art
2024
Lior Ben-Gai
Generative Art
Leonardo/ISAST Laser Talks Jerusalem: Generative Art: Pushing Boundaries. September 26, 2024,
The President Hotel Art Space, Jerusalem
ARTIST AND AI: COMPETITION? REPLACEMENT? ASSISTANCE?
CO-AUTHORSHIP? SYNERGY?
2 July, 2024
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The conversation, initiated by the INEMEA Association, in collaboration with CYLAND, brings together artists, poets, and cultural theorists to focus on the role of the artist in facing the challenges posed by AI as a new subject and creator of art.
Chaired/Moderated by:
LASER JERUSALEM / Galina Bleikh and Daria Kesler
EVENT INFO
When: 2.7.2024/1:00 pm/ (UTC +3) Time zone,
Where: Location: hybrid event: Jerusalem “The President Hotel” Exhibition hall and ZOOM.
EVENT CONTEXT
In the era of rapid AI development, artists have a unique chance to rethink and redefine their roles and methods. Whether they view AI as a competitor, assistant, co-author, or synergistic partner, it is crucial to explore and adapt to new technologies while staying true to their artistic vision and human experience.
Kirill Azernyi and Eugeny Nikitin present their collaborative project "Whispered Commands" which was designed as a textual/visual dialogue where voice recording and AI-generated images both play major roles. The project's focus is on how human agency and artistic communication emerge through these different media.
Galina Bleikh discusses her project "The Tumbleweed Cities," created in collaboration with AI. The project's name serves as a metaphor for artificial digital cities generated by the world of illusions, disconnected from geographical, political, and socio-cultural contexts. These digital nomads, with AI-created landscapes, resemble real, recognizable cities yet remain unreal. As internet surfers and digital nomads, we inhabit these Tumbleweed Cities, drifting freely in the digital realm like tumbling bubbles with individual coordinate axes.
Dr. Lev Manovich will discuss selected ideas from his new book “Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media.” The book analyzes generative media using ideas from history of art and media, psychology and philosophy of art, and digital culture.
LASER Talks program short summary
– Galina Bleikh. Introduction.
– Daria Kesler. Presentation of the speakers.
– Eugeny Nikitin and Kirill Azernyi. Presentation of the project "Whispered Commands."
– Galina Bleikh. Presentation of the project "Tumbleweed cities.”
– Dr. Lev Manovich. Selected ideas from his new book “Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media.”
Moderator:
Daria Kesler
Israel
Cross-disciplinary researcher and artist. Works with human and machine-generated texts, sounds, documentaries, scents, and video art. Daria is interested in using modern technologies and science to spread empathy towards all species. She wants to explore new ways of co-living between technology, human, plants, and animals. Education: Master of Art&Science (Inovice), ITMO, Russia, Major studies in Hybrid (Technological and Bio) Art.
Speakers:
Kirill Azerniy
Israel
Kirill Azernyi (born 1990) – writer, poet, translator, publisher. Works published in Russian-language literary media (Ural, Novyi Mir, Flagi, Artikulatsia, etc.) and in English-language literary media (Flatbush Review, The Minute Review, Gone Lawn, etc.). Hosts a digital arts site: https://illitera.com Two books of prose published in Russia Editor of samizdat magazine Zdes (2015-2020). Member of the Metajournal editorial board Participant of International Writing Program (USA, University of Iowa, 2015). Participant of Electronic Literature Organization conferences (online, 2020, 2021). Participant of the IX St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum (Russia, 2021). Participant of SlovoNova Free Culture Forum (Tel Aviv, 2023). Examples of digital works: Font. A Novel for Formatting (Cirk “OLIMP” TV, 2020): https://www.cirkolimp-tv.ru/articles/901/shrift-roman-dlya-verstki-v-powerpoint Amateur. A “bubblegum” novel (Vispo, 2024), in collaboration with Jim Andrews: https://vispo.com/guests/kirill/amateur/index.html
Eugeny Nikitin
Israel
Eugeny Nikitin (born 1981) – poet, writer, AI-artist. Poetry books include “The Invisible Lens” (M., 2009), “Stand-up Lyrics” (M., 2015), “Brackets” (M., 2022). Stories collections include “The Eastern Seventeen” (M., 2011, in collaboration with Alena Churbanova), “About Dad” (M., 2019).
A coordinator of the poetry project "Making Words" at the 53d Venice Biennial (2009). Founder of "Metajournal" – an online medium of contemporary poetry. Exhibitions: “AI Has a Soul”, SlovoNovo Forum, Tel Aviv, 2023 “Eugeny Nikitin, Konstantin Eremenko”, SlovoNovo Forum, Lustica Bay, 2023 “Vladimir Sorokin. Blue Lard – Cancel Russian Culture”, Berlin, 2023, Paris, New York, 2024 (not credited).
Galina Bleikh
Israel
A multidisciplinary artist. Her creative expertise spans a rich spectrum of artistic domains, encompassing AI, 3D modeling, AR and VR, bio-art, generative art, and more. At the heart of her artistic pursuit lies a fascination with the profound synergy between the emerging artificial reality and its transformative interaction with human experience through art. Galina's creative endeavors extend to collaborative projects, notably in partnership with Elena Serebryakova since 2011. Together, these two artists have created the visionary concept of their unique creative approach “The Hybrid Neural Network Art” (http://hnn-art.com). Galina graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry (MA). Since 1993, lives in Jerusalem. Galina is a cofounder of the INEMEA Association for Art, Culture, and Education and the INEMEA Jerusalem Art & Science lab. Since 2024, Galina becomes a host of Leonardo ISAST Laser Talks Jerusalem. Galina takes part in many exhibitions and conferences. Among them: Jerusalem Biennale (curator and participating artist, 2023–2024), ArtPlatform-On, South Korea (2022), The CICA Museum of Modern Art, South Korea (group and solo, 2021), NordArt, Germany (2019), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (2018), LA Art Show USA (2013), Artco France Gallery, Paris (solo, 2012), Art Asia Miami (2011), etc. (https://bleikh.art)
Dr. Lev Manovich
USA
Lev Manovich is an artist, writer, and one of the most influential theorists of digital culture worldwide. He is currently a Presidential Professor of Computer Science at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and the Director of the Cultural Analytics Lab. After studying painting, architecture, and filmmaking, Manovich began using computers to create digital art in 1984. He has played a key role in creating four new research fields: new media studies (1991-), software studies (2001-), cultural analytics (2007-) and AI aesthetics (2017-). Since 1991, he has published 190 articles that have been translated into 35 different languages and reprinted over 800 times. He authored and edited 16 books, including Artificial Aesthetics, Cultural Analytics, Instagram and Contemporary Image, Software Takes Command, and The Language of New Media, which has been called "the most provocative and comprehensive media history since Marshall McLuhan." His projects have been exhibited in 14 solo and 122 international group exhibitions at many prestigious institutions, such as the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Centre Pompidou, The Shanghai Biennale, and The ZKM | Center for Art and Media. (http://manovich.net)
SEE US ON ISAST LEONARDO PLATFORM >
The conversation, initiated by the INEMEA Association, in collaboration with CYLAND, brings together artists, poets, and cultural theorists to focus on the role of the artist in facing the challenges posed by AI as a new subject and creator of art.
Chaired/Moderated by:
LASER JERUSALEM / Galina Bleikh and Daria Kesler
EVENT INFO
When: 2.7.2024/1:00 pm/ (UTC +3) Time zone,
Where: Location: hybrid event: Jerusalem “The President Hotel” Exhibition hall and ZOOM.
EVENT CONTEXT
In the era of rapid AI development, artists have a unique chance to rethink and redefine their roles and methods. Whether they view AI as a competitor, assistant, co-author, or synergistic partner, it is crucial to explore and adapt to new technologies while staying true to their artistic vision and human experience.
Kirill Azernyi and Eugeny Nikitin present their collaborative project "Whispered Commands" which was designed as a textual/visual dialogue where voice recording and AI-generated images both play major roles. The project's focus is on how human agency and artistic communication emerge through these different media.
Galina Bleikh discusses her project "The Tumbleweed Cities," created in collaboration with AI. The project's name serves as a metaphor for artificial digital cities generated by the world of illusions, disconnected from geographical, political, and socio-cultural contexts. These digital nomads, with AI-created landscapes, resemble real, recognizable cities yet remain unreal. As internet surfers and digital nomads, we inhabit these Tumbleweed Cities, drifting freely in the digital realm like tumbling bubbles with individual coordinate axes.
Dr. Lev Manovich will discuss selected ideas from his new book “Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media.” The book analyzes generative media using ideas from history of art and media, psychology and philosophy of art, and digital culture.
LASER Talks program short summary
– Galina Bleikh. Introduction.
– Daria Kesler. Presentation of the speakers.
– Eugeny Nikitin and Kirill Azernyi. Presentation of the project "Whispered Commands."
– Galina Bleikh. Presentation of the project "Tumbleweed cities.”
– Dr. Lev Manovich. Selected ideas from his new book “Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media.”
Moderator:
Daria Kesler
Israel
Cross-disciplinary researcher and artist. Works with human and machine-generated texts, sounds, documentaries, scents, and video art. Daria is interested in using modern technologies and science to spread empathy towards all species. She wants to explore new ways of co-living between technology, human, plants, and animals. Education: Master of Art&Science (Inovice), ITMO, Russia, Major studies in Hybrid (Technological and Bio) Art.
Speakers:
Kirill Azerniy
Israel
Kirill Azernyi (born 1990) – writer, poet, translator, publisher. Works published in Russian-language literary media (Ural, Novyi Mir, Flagi, Artikulatsia, etc.) and in English-language literary media (Flatbush Review, The Minute Review, Gone Lawn, etc.). Hosts a digital arts site: https://illitera.com Two books of prose published in Russia Editor of samizdat magazine Zdes (2015-2020). Member of the Metajournal editorial board Participant of International Writing Program (USA, University of Iowa, 2015). Participant of Electronic Literature Organization conferences (online, 2020, 2021). Participant of the IX St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum (Russia, 2021). Participant of SlovoNova Free Culture Forum (Tel Aviv, 2023). Examples of digital works: Font. A Novel for Formatting (Cirk “OLIMP” TV, 2020): https://www.cirkolimp-tv.ru/articles/901/shrift-roman-dlya-verstki-v-powerpoint Amateur. A “bubblegum” novel (Vispo, 2024), in collaboration with Jim Andrews: https://vispo.com/guests/kirill/amateur/index.html
Eugeny Nikitin
Israel
Eugeny Nikitin (born 1981) – poet, writer, AI-artist. Poetry books include “The Invisible Lens” (M., 2009), “Stand-up Lyrics” (M., 2015), “Brackets” (M., 2022). Stories collections include “The Eastern Seventeen” (M., 2011, in collaboration with Alena Churbanova), “About Dad” (M., 2019).
A coordinator of the poetry project "Making Words" at the 53d Venice Biennial (2009). Founder of "Metajournal" – an online medium of contemporary poetry. Exhibitions: “AI Has a Soul”, SlovoNovo Forum, Tel Aviv, 2023 “Eugeny Nikitin, Konstantin Eremenko”, SlovoNovo Forum, Lustica Bay, 2023 “Vladimir Sorokin. Blue Lard – Cancel Russian Culture”, Berlin, 2023, Paris, New York, 2024 (not credited).
Galina Bleikh
Israel
A multidisciplinary artist. Her creative expertise spans a rich spectrum of artistic domains, encompassing AI, 3D modeling, AR and VR, bio-art, generative art, and more. At the heart of her artistic pursuit lies a fascination with the profound synergy between the emerging artificial reality and its transformative interaction with human experience through art. Galina's creative endeavors extend to collaborative projects, notably in partnership with Elena Serebryakova since 2011. Together, these two artists have created the visionary concept of their unique creative approach “The Hybrid Neural Network Art” (http://hnn-art.com). Galina graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry (MA). Since 1993, lives in Jerusalem. Galina is a cofounder of the INEMEA Association for Art, Culture, and Education and the INEMEA Jerusalem Art & Science lab. Since 2024, Galina becomes a host of Leonardo ISAST Laser Talks Jerusalem. Galina takes part in many exhibitions and conferences. Among them: Jerusalem Biennale (curator and participating artist, 2023–2024), ArtPlatform-On, South Korea (2022), The CICA Museum of Modern Art, South Korea (group and solo, 2021), NordArt, Germany (2019), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (2018), LA Art Show USA (2013), Artco France Gallery, Paris (solo, 2012), Art Asia Miami (2011), etc. (https://bleikh.art)
Dr. Lev Manovich
USA
Lev Manovich is an artist, writer, and one of the most influential theorists of digital culture worldwide. He is currently a Presidential Professor of Computer Science at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and the Director of the Cultural Analytics Lab. After studying painting, architecture, and filmmaking, Manovich began using computers to create digital art in 1984. He has played a key role in creating four new research fields: new media studies (1991-), software studies (2001-), cultural analytics (2007-) and AI aesthetics (2017-). Since 1991, he has published 190 articles that have been translated into 35 different languages and reprinted over 800 times. He authored and edited 16 books, including Artificial Aesthetics, Cultural Analytics, Instagram and Contemporary Image, Software Takes Command, and The Language of New Media, which has been called "the most provocative and comprehensive media history since Marshall McLuhan." His projects have been exhibited in 14 solo and 122 international group exhibitions at many prestigious institutions, such as the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Centre Pompidou, The Shanghai Biennale, and The ZKM | Center for Art and Media. (http://manovich.net)
INTERNATIONAL ART AND SCIENCE LAB EXCHANGE,
SHARING EXPERIENCES
14 April, 2024
Chaired/Moderated by:
LASER JERUSALEM / Galina Bleikh and Daria Kesler
LASER Talks CYLAND / Anna Frants and Natalia Kolodzei
EVENT INFO
When: 14.4.2024/5:00 pm/ (UTC +3) Time zone,
Where: Location: hybrid event: Jerusalem “The President Hotel” Exhibition hall in the frame of the 6th Jerusalem Biennale and the Zoom meeting with speakers from Canada, Mexico, and Armenia.
EVENT CONTEXT
The "International Art and Science Lab Exchange: Sharing Experiences" Laser Talks event in Jerusalem is being organized by the Jerusalem INEMEA Art & Science Lab in collaboration with CYLAND Media Art Lab, founded in 2007 by independent artists and curators.
The INEMEA Art & Science Lab is a newly established institution dedicated to fostering collaboration among artists, scientists, and technologists. The lab invites international communities to share experiences and ideas, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration to address contemporary challenges and drive societal progress.
The INEMEA Lab focuses on bioart, Art&Ai, and humanitarian sciences, such as gender issues and border sciences, utilizing the expertise of our creative teams to develop and execute projects in these areas.
INEMEA has extended invitations to participate in the Laser Talks discussion to Professor Nina Czegledy from Toronto, who is an artist, independent curator, researcher, and educator; Jaime Alonso Lobato from Mexico City, who is a transmedial artist, composer, curator, and researcher; as well as Bella Harutyunyan from Yerevan, who is GTC manager, Enterprise Incubator Foundation.
The Laser Talks event in Jerusalem is an international conversation affiliated with the 6th Jerusalem Spring Biennale. Jerusalem venues will host 30 exhibitions featuring the participation of over 200 renowned artists and curators worldwide. The Biennale is organizing a diverse events program to be held in all gallery spaces throughout the seven weeks of the event.
INEMEA ART & SCIENCE LAB PRESENTED THE NEXT PROJECTS:
GALINA BLEIKH
The Bible Bot-AI-ny
My Friend Olive Tree App
DARIA KESLER
Reddish Soil
LILIA CHAK, Ph. D.
Lullaby for Corals
NATALIYA KAMENETSKAYA
MAZE
The CIRCUITS series: דֶרֶך Intersections. 2023
Sages on the Way series: Gematria
Evidence