The poetics of autopoiesis: visual arts, autonomy and artificial intelligence.
(2024)
author(s): bruno caldas
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
This exposition contains the manuscript and artistic components of the doctoral research project "The poetics of autopoiesis: visual arts, autonomy and artificial intelligence."
The project aimed to explore the limits of creative autonomy in face of recent developments in generative visual artificial intelligence.
Recuerditos de Cuba
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Anabel Pérez Lubián
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Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023.
BA Fine Arts.
This thesis explores the intersections of tourism, memory and visual culture through a decolonial lens, using personal photographs and lived experience as the primary site of inquiry. Centered on the context of Cuba, the work interrogates the postcard as both a material object and a colonial modern artifact, tracing how the tourist, particularly the white, gaze commodifies La Habana's histories, spaces and bodies. The project unfolds through the author’s own diasporic return to Cuba, structured around a series of photographs taken at the age of eight. These images, constituent of a family archive, anchor the narrative and serve as points of entry into the layered relationships between personal memory and colonial visual regimes. Throughout the book, the research brings forth the archival materials that inform the knowledge the author stands upon. The materials that shape memory, and memory itself as knowledge. Drawing on the flat, affective style of Annie Ernaux’s écriture plate, the thesis adopts a third person narrative voice to perform close readings of these childhood images, allowing the memory of a child to guide the inquiry. Rather than reproduce the vistas of La Habana Vieja, which Rolando Vázquez critiques as visual regimes that sustain the colonial difference, the work turns inward, toward domestic interiors and overlooked everyday scenes as potential sites of resistance. Ultimately, the thesis proposes a situated decolonial aesthetic practice grounded in embodied memory, affective inheritance and visual testimony.
You are Leaking: on vision, permeability, and the porous self through fiction and theory
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author(s): Nilsu Göçer
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Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2025
BA Fine Arts
"You are leaking" tells the story of Iris, an artist caught in a surreal, psychological descent inside a shifting, oppressive studio space. The sterile white room, described as "ravenous" and alive, becomes a character: it breathes, warps, and seeps with liquid. As time fractures and the line between self and environment dissolves, Iris is consumed by disorientation.
The story reflects my longing to shed individualism like a skin, to melt into something vast and nameless. The longing to escape the boundaries of self, the ecstasy and terror of permeability, and the cyclical failure of transformation. My work dwells in that unstable space, where “I” frays into “we,” where memories forget their owners and bodies forget their borders.
All that glitters and NO black holes
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Zoe Panagiota (aka Betty) Nigianni
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Design, 1995-96, 2023. Design, 1996-97. Photography, 2010, 2011. Essay, 2015. Collage Text, 2022.
The exposition serves as commentary and guide on the place of art, in a gradually environmentally and technologically challenged world. I designed this exposition as a 'teaser' on how architects, who work mainly conceptually, might conduct research from different art and media sources, as well as their own broader artistic work. In this art and design context, I further make a commentary on outgrown conceptions of the foreign, in terms of the so-called "exotic', and the non-foreign,within the political context of contemporary globalisation. Thus, I raise open questions on the impact of architecture and design on global politics.
The re-design proposal, inspired by De Stijl, illustrates the modernist historical view that art appears to be regressive, rather than progressive: as soon as a movement or a school becomes established, reaching its culmination, it starts declining.
Finally, I have included a graduate school architectural design project in the archaeological site of Eleusis accompanied by new commentary.
With essay about experimental film making in the British avant-garde, published in "Architecture and Culture" journal, 2015, which is about the environmental challenges of the urban environment. The reference to the TV show "Alone", a competitive prize show of sole or two-person players, is a reminder that humans can live in the natural environment developing survival tactics already applied by their ancestors. I included those references to make hints at the relationships between film, television and contemporary architecture as an artistic medium, in the old-fashioned tradition of architecture belonging to the fine arts.
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For Luke, who I haven't met; with respect and care.
Neem Plaats
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Lucia Koevoets
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Neem Plaats; een performatieve installatie door Lucia Koevoets
KuvA Research Days 2020
(last edited: 2021)
author(s): KuvA Research Days
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Taideyliopiston Kuvataideakatemian Tutkimuspäivillä 7.-9.12.2020 kokoonnutiin keskustelemaan taiteellisen tutkimuksen ajankohtaisista kysymyksistä. Tähän expositioon kootaan kolmipäiväisen tapahtuman dokumentaatiot.
At KuvA Research Days 7-9 Dec 2020 at the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki we incited discussions concerning topical issues of artistic research. In this exposition we will collect the documentations of the three-day event.
This exposition contains the manuscript and artistic components of the doctoral research project "The poetics of autopoiesis: visual arts, autonomy and artificial intelligence." The project aimed to explore the limits of creative autonomy in face of recent developments in generative visual artificial intelligence.open exposition comments (0)
Neem Plaats; een performatieve installatie door Lucia Koevoetsopen exposition comments (0)
Taideyliopiston Kuvataideakatemian Tutkimuspäivillä 7.-9.12.2020 kokoonnutiin keskustelemaan taiteellisen tutkimuksen ajankohtaisista kysymyksistä. Tähän expositioon kootaan kolmipäiväisen tapahtuman dokumentaatiot. At KuvA Research Days 7-9 Dec 2020 at the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki we incited discussions concerning topical issues of artistic research. In this exposition we will collect the documentations of the three-day event.open exposition comments (0)