Eekie (she/her) is a visual artist and filmmaker from Teesside currently based in Glasgow. She is deeply influenced by Queer Ecology and Cyberculture theories such as posthumanism, cyborg ontology, and glitch feminism. Eekie gathers anecdotes from research topics such as zoology, posthumanism, cyborg ontology, glitch feminism, and botany. Through sci-fi themes, she seeks to challenge anthropocentrism and celebrate the commonalities that unite an ecology.

Elle Crawley (she/her) is a digital portrait artist based in Scotland. She specialises in creating immersive and dynamic experiences by fusing traditional art techniques and cutting-edge digital media. Her work blurs the boundaries between the digital and real worlds, seamlessly integrating classical painting methods with modern technology to produce digital illustrations, portraits, 3D models, and animations. Influenced by J.C. Leyendecker and Alphonse Mucha, her work blends vintage aesthetics with modern twists, using vibrant colours and negative space to create striking, feminine designs. She also incorporates futurism and sci-fi elements, uniting the past and future with an innovative edge.

Christina Lopez

Christina Lopez is a 28 year old visual artist based in Manila, Philippines. Her practice explores how images are constructed, disseminated, and consumed. The work is often presented through different media while utilizing production processes that range from old and “new”. She is interested in the capacity of art to present alternative possibilities; to theorize, to test certain boundaries that are currently in place. There is specific intent to explore power, including its relations, structure, and implications. Recently, she has been using portraiture as a tool to question the rigidity of representation. Her first solo exhibition titled “Portraits (Proxies)”, received the Ateneo Art Awards - Fernando Zobel Prize for Visual Art in 2021. She has presented work in Manila, Baguio, Lucban, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, London, and New York.

Rona is an interdisciplinary artist and illustrator from Estonia, exploring the integration of traditional analogue and digital mediums. She enjoys using AI tools to achieve a co-creation space where generated input informs the final artwork. The subject matter often takes inspiration from art made by children and explores parallels between the development of humans and technology. Her work aims to challenge stereotypes of AI art as something created with intention, requiring skill and (human) creativity.

About the curator:

As an artist and cultural practitioner, Abie's work is deeply rooted in her multifaceted identity and experiences. Her practice is informed by her identity as a woman, part of the LGBTQIA+ community, a person of colour from the global south, and a native of a formerly colonised country. This perspective drives her focus on issues of technology and its convergence with creativity.

Her current research and practice centre on the application of Feminist AI in the creative industries. She explores this technology's history, rooted in women's work in early computing, and its potential to emancipate underrepresented groups. This collaborative project "(A)I will never be human" challenges existing narratives within AI systems, employing feminist AI art and guerrilla marketing strategies to amplify marginalised voices and critique colonial narratives.

Through Abie's work, she strives to reshape AI technologies as tools for liberation, ensuring they represent and serve a broader spectrum of humanity. Her practice aims to create collaborative models that empower marginalised groups and shape an equitable future for artificial intelligence in the creative industries.