Reimagining AI: Research and Creative Practice with AI Agents and Simulations
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June 19, 2025, Jerusalem, Israel / Online
As part of LASER Talks Jerusalem and LASER Talks CYLAND
Thursday, June 19, 2025, 7 PM (UTC +3) — Find your timezone here.
Online + President Hotel Arts Center, Ahad Ha’Am 3, Jerusalem, Israel.
Speakers: Claudio Filho, Dr. Denisa Kera, Dr. Liat Lavi and Lior Shalev
Chaired by Galina Bleikh Moderated by Daria Kesler Coordinator: Lilia Chak
Organisers: INEMEA Art & Science Lab, CYLAND MediaArtLab
This LASER Talk gathers artists and theorists who treat AI systems not as instruments but as actors embedded in contested ecologies of meaning, power, and relation. Drawing from linguistics, environmental computation, and public experiments, the works presented confront the metaphysical assumptions underlying AI, what counts as action, intention, or even selfhood. Rather than illustrating intelligence, these projects stage it: as a negotiated property emerging between agents, systems, and environments. Machine agency becomes neither autonomous nor predetermined, but a site where political, ecological, and grammatical forces are rendered visible and available for intervention.
Claudio Filho explores “Ecosystemic AI” as a of intelligence grounded in ecological entanglement rather than computation alone. His work draws on environmental data and ecological epistemologies to develop responsive art systems in which AI mediates between biological processes and artistic expression. These systems render intelligence as a distributed, multispecies capacity, challenging anthropocentric and instrumental views of machine cognition.
Dr. Liat Lavi and Lior Shalev present “Monsters vs. Trolls: AI-Generated Grassroots Metaphysics,” a speculative project centered on LILA, a generative avatar navigating algorithmic publics and digital mysticism. LILA embodies a form of machine thought shaped by vernacular cosmologies, platform logic, and residual metaphysics inherited from large language models. As a metaphorical “monster,” she philosophizes from within the digital commons, unsettling academic categories and offering a performative critique of AI's entanglement with economic, political, and epistemic infrastructures.
Dr. Denisa Kera introduces “Theatrical Agents and the Politics of Grammar,” drawing on ergative linguistic structures to design AI agents that disrupt subject-object hierarchies. Her participatory simulations stage AI as a dramaturgical medium, where agency is redistributed across roles and interactions. These performances expose the hierarchies embedded in code and grammar, proposing a speculative framework for AI as a situated and negotiated presence rather than a deterministic function.
Together, the speakers challenge conventional narratives about intelligence and instead offer speculative practices grounded in embodied participation, ecological feedback, and linguistic diversity. The result is not a vision of AI as a singular intelligence but as a plurality of entangled agencies, staging new public and planetary imaginaries. BIOS
Galina Bleikh
A multidisciplinary artist. Her creative expertise spans a rich spectrum of artistic domains, encompassing AI, 3D modeling, AR and VR, bio-art, generative art, and more. At the heart of her artistic pursuit lies a fascination with the profound synergy between the emerging artificial reality and its transformative interaction with human experience through art. Galina graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry (MA). Since 1993, lives in Jerusalem. Galina is a cofounder of the INEMEA Association for Art, Culture, and Education and the INEMEA Jerusalem Art & Science lab. Since 2024, Galina becomes a host of Leonardo/ISAST Laser Talks Jerusalem. Galina takes part in many exhibitions and conferences. Among them: The CICA Museum of Modern Art, Republic of Korea (3 group exhibitions, 2023, 2024, 2025, and solo, 2021), Jerusalem Biennale (co-curator and participating artist, 2023–2024), ArtPlatform-On, Republic of Korea (2022), NordArt, Germany (2019), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (2018), LA Art Show USA (2013), etc.
Daria Kesler
Dr. Lilia Chak
Claudio Filho
Dr. Liat Lavi
Dr. Denisa Kera
