Helena Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator, and educator based in Moscow. Interested in hybrid art, bio-semiotics and AI, she explores the potential possibilities and risks of technology to understand the modern technology- and media-determined world. Apart from artistic and curatorial work, Nikonole gives lectures and workshops in the field of Art & Science and Neural Networks in arts at different institutions in Russia and abroad.
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Bird Language, 2018-ongoing. Inspired by Noam Chomsky’s theories, this project uses AI to look for patterns within bird song and build a mathematical model of the Universal Grammar of Bird Language
Bird Language, 2018-ongoing. In the first stage of the project, a neural network was trained on the sounds of nightingales to create communication between non-human agents: birds and Artificial Intelligence
deus X mchn, 2017. This project explores the issue of online security within the Internet of Things (IoT), and the increasing capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
deus X mchn, 2017. A neural network was fed a corpus of sacred texts and generated its own “sacred” text
Faces2Voices, 2020. With Nikita Prudnikov. This online interactive installation uses facial recognition and AI-synthesised sound to create a generative music composition based on imaginary voices of online visitors
Faces2Voices, 2020. With Nikita Prudnikov. Uses of facial recognition by governments and corporations are heavily criticised. Here, users could exchange the access to their face for entertainment
Plastifique Biofarm, 2015. With Dr. Anastasiya Kanatieva and Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov. The project is a futuristic vision of a biofarm where ants can live in symbiosis with bacteria and recycle plastic
Plastifique Biofarm, 2015. The movements of ants were converted into the interactive sound installation
Plastifique Biofarm, 2015
The Other View, 2018. Having connected to IP-cameras at a mirror gallery imitating Yayoi Kusama's mirror installations, Nikonole combined images from the cameras with the images from social media that were taken there
The Other View v.2, 2020. This project demonstrates the supplementation of IP-camera surveillance by self-representation through social media
