helena nikonole
Helena Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator, researcher, and educator based in Berlin. Her fields of interest include AI, hacktivism, hybrid art, and biosemiotics. One part of her practice is dedicated to utopian scenarios of a post-human future and art as innovation, while another focuses on the dystopian present and a critical approach to technology.
Session
This presentation examines artistic practices that engage with sociotechnical systems through tactical interventions. Drawing on case studies such as Antiwar AI and 868labs, the talk proposes art as a form of infrastructural critique and counter-technology. It introduces a forthcoming HackLab designed to foster collaborative development of open-source tools addressing digital authoritarianism, surveillance capitalism, propaganda infrastructures, and ideological warfare.