Statement

Artencoders is an artistic collective formed by Cristina de Propios, artist, researcher, and lecturer at Spanish universities (UEM / U-TAD), and David Estévez Fernández, Deep Learning Engineer at Kaleido AI (Canva), based in Vienna. Their collaborative practice explores the aesthetic, speculative, and critical possibilities of artificial intelligence and artificial life as artistic media. Their work reflects on the role we play as developers and users of intelligent systems that deeply impact ecosystems and the various forms of life that inhabit our planet. They imagine futures where not only humans are transformed by technology, but other entities —organic or synthetic— adapt their existence through it. In 2021, their artwork Artificial Roots was selected and presented at the prestigious NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design, consolidating their trajectory at the intersection of computational art and advanced AI research.

Cristina de Propios

www.depropios.com

de Propios holds a Ph. D in Fine Arts: Artificial Intelligence Art and Computational Creativity de Propios teaches AI tools for art and emerging technologies, regularly gives talks, and writes on the intersection of art and machine intelligence. Since 2020, she has been a researcher with the ARTIFICIA platform, promoting augmented creativity through AI. Her Ph.D. was the first in Spain to critically address the convergence of art and artificial intelligence.

David Estévez

www.destevez.me

David holds a Ph.D. in Robotics and AI from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and currently works on visual AI systems at Kaleido AI (Canva). His artistic research explores the boundaries of algorithmic creativity through GANs, diffusion models, and neural cellular automata, seeking to push these systems into generating visually ambiguous, non-standard outputs.

Currently collaborates with artist Cristina de Propios researching the artistic possibilities of Deep Learning-based Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life techniques applied to different artistic projects.