Katerina Undo

Belgium, Greece (residence), Greece (citizenship)
research interests: Coexistence, transience and transition, artificial intelligence, artificial speech, mediation, machine, embodiment
affiliation: KU Leuven, LUCA School of Arts, University of Melbourne
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Katerina Undo is an artist and researcher exploring liminal notions of embodiment as processes of counter-transition, mediation and co-existence in complex environments. Katerina's work, primarily expressed through multimedia installations, has been exhibited internationally. Katerina studied at the Athens School of Law, Economics and Political Sciences (BA in Economics), the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (MA in Economics), the Athens School of Fine Arts, the LUCA School of Arts (Master of Arts-Transmedia) and the HISK/Higher Institute for Fine Arts (Laureate). She is a (joint) PhD candidate at KU Leuven, LUCA School of Arts and the University of Melbourne. www.katerina-undo.net


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  • When GPT Digested the Medium Hélène Smith (2024) author(s): Katerina Undo published in: HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
    Exploring synergies between the study of the medium Hélène Smith at the turn of the 20th century and contemporary notions of subjectivity, artificiality and intelligence in the age of AI, the question of locating intelligence will not be a question with a binary answer in this paper. It will be shifted to multiple sites in an assimilative assemblage, exploring how identification might work from a rather metabolic side of the conversation. Weaving a thinking continuum on the evolving human-machine complexes beyond circular debates, Hélène Smith's ambiguous Martian writings are fed into GPT; an act intended as a metaphor and method for overcoming our binary contradiction of intelligence as either “natural” or “artificial”, ultimately generating new subjectivities, fluid variables or even contradictory insights. In this context, a meditation with speculative moments is attempted through human-machine inter-written texts, enacted through inter-twined speeches that reciprocally represent and interpret their own transitive nature.
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