Interdisciplinary Conference

TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

in Art & Science

9-13 September 2025, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana

La Inteligencia Artifecal
Event Hours: 11/09/2025 (20:00)
Location: Upper Foyer - Kino Šiška
Praba Pilar

In this performance, a defiant cyborg explores “artifecal” intelligence, which drives hyperreality and our taboo, transgressive, and transcendent preconceptions of AI. Through a biohazardous body, she critiques the erotic fetishisation of a resurrected death drive and the claims of AI’s demonic destructive power, questioning whether our fear of AI means renouncing ourselves or merely serving necropolitical billionaires and their vision of death.

Praba Pilar

Praba Pilar is a queer diasporic Colombian artist creating interdisciplinary projects that disrupt the cult of the techno-logic. She is working internationally on subversive, playful, and simultaneously serious ways with AI systems to nixtamalize the technology sector, creating algorithms, code, images, and songs that challenge data extraction techno-colonialism and offer algorithms of liberation.

Her artworks have been presented in museums, galleries, universities, festivals and streets around the world – including the Museum of World Culture in Gothenberg, Sweden; MUAC in Mexico City; La Facultad de Bellas Artes, Altea, Spain; Vancouver's LIVE BIENNALE; Toronto's McLuhan Center for Culture & Technology; SIGGRAPH in South Korea; the Zero One Festival at ISEA; OCAD in Toronto; Galeria Studio Cerrillo in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico; MOCA in Los Angeles; San Francisco's MOMA; BAN 5 at Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena; Grace Performance Space in New York City; the Oakland Museum of California; and many more, with works on exhibit in perpetuity at the Kitchen in NYC and in ACM SIGGRAPH’s Future Past VS. Coloniality: Decolonial Media Art Beyond 530 Year.

She is a 2025-27 HUMAN (Humanities Understanding of the Machine Assisted Nexus) Fellow at Lake Forest College/Ragdale, Co-Director of the Bioarts Ethical Advisory Komission, and an Emeritus Board Member of Women Eco Artists Dialogue.  Pilar has a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Davis, and you can learn more about her work at prabapilar.com.


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