(b. 1991) Working at the intersection of art, research, and AI, Mariana Fernandez Mora is fascinated by technology's impact on knowledge production and is developing new approaches towards anti-colonial methodologies for algorithmic cultures.

Mariana connects, platforms, and disseminates artistic research through her work at ARIAS, where she serves as the communications manager, editor, and leads the Artificial Worlds Group. Her research is hosted and supported by the Visual Methodologies Collective at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the Algorithmic Research Group at the Sandberg Institute, where she initiated the Slow AI project as a coalition between both institutions.

Her book, Dear Machines, published in 2022, is an experimental thesis on co-writing with AI. In it, Mariana explores how AI technologies are changing and challenging the way we communicate, the way we determine intelligence, and, as a consequence, how knowledge is created. The book is part of the collections at the Stedelijk Museum Library, If I Can't Dance, Design Museum Gent, The Sandberg/Rietveld Library, and Stockholm University.

Mariana's side passions include tennis, girl theory, fashion, gossip, trash culture, memes, and running.

 

She is an alumna of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Sandberg Institute.

 

Send her memes @iamarianafernandez

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Her work has been shown at venues like: 

Melkweg

Stedelijk Museum

If I can't Dance

Festival Why Not

OT301

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