Kika Nicolela

Happy to participate of the round table 'The Challenges of Collecting Experimental and Boundary-Pushing Works' on May 8 in Venice, as part of the @cityxfoundation event Fragile Art in Motion. From digital and internet-native works to interdisciplinary installations and multimedia environments, such practices challenge traditional models of acquisition, preservation, and display. By bringing together diverse perspectives, the panel reflects on how collecting itself must evolve to sustain the most forward-looking artistic practices of our time. Lmk if you would like to join, I can send you an invitation. ⚡

I am very happy to participate in the exhibition LOOK WHO’S LOOKING , curated by @zardoz.club and being presented in Madrid on March 05 and at the The Wrong Biennale @thewrong.biennale . My video piece ‘A 48 year old Brazilian woman’ (2025, 01’53’’) , the selected work, is part of the NFT collection of zardoz. ___ About ‘A 48 year old Brazilian woman’ : For over three years, I have engaged with commercial text-to-image AI programs, confronting their strong bias in representing women: they are almost always white, young, slim, and conventionally beautiful. The vast majority of AI-generated images circulating online and on social media fail to challenge these stereotypes, reinforcing structural racism and the invisibility of overweight, middle-aged, non-white women like myself. By using a description of myself as a prompt, I find myself in a battle—against both the algorithms and the humans behind the biases of Midjourney, one of the most widely used text-to-image tools. These many synthetic versions of me “look at the camera”—at the viewer—reclaiming the right to the existence of their image. Originally made for the exhibition THE SECOND-GUESS. BODY ANXIETY IN THE AGE OF AI , curated by Anika Meier, Margaret Murphy and Leah Schrager, and showcased on virtual.hek.ch (HEK Basel) in 2025. _ More info about the presentation in Madrid: LOOK WHO’S LOOKING 
📅 March 5, 2026 • 9PM – 00AM
 📍 Siroco ARTLAB, Calle San Dimas 3, Madrid, Spain @sirocosala 

 Who really meets your gaze in an era of artificial vision? LOOK WHO’S LOOKING dives into the uncanny space where human perception meets AI-generated gazes.

 Artists:
 Connie Bakshi @conniebakshi 
 Deepblack @deepblackai 
Frank Manzano @loved_orleer 
 Kika Nicolela @kn___studio 
 Lance Weiler @lanceweiler 
 Marina Abramovic @abramovicinstitute 
Max Capacity @maxcapacityart 
 Michael Alexander @michaelmicasso 
Prozzzessing @prozzzessing 
 Victor Arce @lxtxcx 

 Program:
21:00 Doors open
21:30 Talk with curator Tales Tommasini 
22:00 DJ set + live visuals by Hey Pablo! ⭐Free admission

『 𝑰𝑴𝑴𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑰𝑨𝑳 𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝑰𝑵 𝑨 𝑴𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑰𝑨𝑳 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑳𝑫』 À l’occasion de la soirée 𝑰𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅, le MBAL vous invite à une table ronde qui interroge la place de l’art numérique à une époque où nos imaginaires peinent à projeter un futur commun. Modérée par 𝐓𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐊𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐧 @tadkohan , curateur du Centre culturel suisse, la discussion réunira plusieurs acteur·rice·x de de l’art numérique et contemporain : • 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 @_______marlene______ , curatrice de la prochaine capsule 𝑶𝑹𝑩𝑰𝑻_𝑬 #𝟓 qui sera présentée à Art Genève en janvier 2026 • 𝐊𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐥𝐚 @kn___studio , artiste et curatrice pour objkt.com et pour la capsule #4 d’ 𝑶𝑹𝑩𝑰𝑻_𝑬 , qui a invité 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐤 𝐙𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐚 @canekzapatap à collaborer avec 27 artistes pour créer doomscrolling»>. • 𝐅𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢 @federicachiocchetti , directrice du Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle • 𝐒𝐭𝐞́𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐏𝐞́𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 @stefpecourt , directrice du Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles et fondatrice de la biennale NOVA_XX. Événement créé en collaboration avec le Centre culturel suisse @centreculturelsuisse , le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles @cwb_paris et la Biennale Némo @biennalenemo . 📅 Vendredi 5 décembre, 18h - Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris 🔗 Toutes les infos et inscriptions sur mbal.ch

For those in Los Angeles, check this screening curated by @manta_timing and @salawakii . Happy to be present along with other friends whose work I admire so much, like @sabatobox , @rj16848519 , @xu0.xo , @moeshit_ and @0009.eth . I have a video in the program, 'Feel Me' (2023, 06'57''). 'Feel Me’ is my most extensive moving image work created in partnership with AI tools. Part of my series exploring the octopus as a leitmotif, ‘Feel Me’ proposes a series of moving tableaux that follow each other, expanding the my universe inspired by Japanese tentacle erotica. The octopus acts as a conduit to inner desires, fantasies, and fears, while the hybrid bodies of my series celebrate queerness and non-normative bodies.

✦ Exhibitor Spotlight ✦ For @danctrl , painting never stopped—it just changed tools. Working with vectors and gradients in Illustrator, the Italian artist treats the screen as a new kind of canvas, translating the gestures of painting into digital precision. In his new series "I Want Everything!", Xhema turns the chaos of contemporary image culture into something strangely calm and deliberate. Supermarket flyers, movie stills, and video game screenshots become material for a painterly investigation of how desire, nostalgia, and attention collide online. Curated by @kn___studio for objktone on the occasion of @artontezos Berlin, 6–9 November 2025. Read excerpts from the interview by @anika published online on OBJKTOR, the objkt Mag ⇢ blog.objkt.com

Thank you everyone who came to ‘hello world’, solo show by @qubibien I curated , presented at @galerie_met earlier this month. All NFT works have sold out, but a few prints are still available. Feel free to contact the gallery if interested.

'hello world' by @qubibien This animated generative piece is at the heart of the exhibition of same name I curated for @galerie_met and @objktcom , presented in the Berlin gallery on November 1 – 15, 2025. Below an excerpt of the text I wrote for the show: In 2010, Japanese artist Kazumasa Teshigawara, known as qubibi, was testing how colors might establish and dissolve boundaries when his code revealed something unexpected. What emerged was a system that would generate dozens of unique images every second, forms that would never repeat. He named this discovery  hello world , borrowing the modest phrase programmers use to test if a machine is listening. What began as a technical experiment became something else — a threshold, a signal, a breath. Here, the phrase becomes less a greeting than a persistent conversation — one that has continued for sixteen years. Sometimes it feels like we are living at the edge of an abyss, disconnected from each other and from the living world. Through technology, we have become efficient at extraction and destruction. Yet art holds the power to reveal these systems and provoke resistance, or to show us new paths to coexist. hello world is one of those rare artworks that allows us to touch something essential — not through representation, but through relation. Experiencing it is like reawakening dormant ancient wisdom we didn’t know existed within us. In a world hungry for balance and harmony, the work offers more than meditation: it holds an ability for genuine healing — not as cure, but as a re-synchronization of perception and presence. By inviting us to glimpse the pulsating energy that structures life and universe, hello world aligns us with the old philosophers and alchemists who looked at the world and marveled. Who felt connectedness. Who understood the vital interdependency of all things. Qubibi calls hello world “my first and last generative art,” and the claim reads as both challenge and pledge. This is not restlessness but devotion. The algorithm’s grammar is deceptively simple: boundaries form through color, and from this single rule, intricate organic patterns emerge, accumulate, fracture, and dissolve.

『 𝑶𝑹𝑩𝑰𝑻_𝑬 』 Le MBAL est très heureux de dévoiler la 4ᵉ capsule de sa plateforme d’art numérique 𝑶𝑹𝑩𝑰𝑻_𝑬, curatée par 𝐊𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐥𝐚 @kn___studio . Sur son invitation, 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐤 𝐙𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐚 @canekzapatap a réuni 27 artistes pour collaborer autour d’un projet inédit. 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒎𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈>>> est une page web générative qui compose des collages numériques en temps réel, transformant le défilement compulsif en un espace d’expérimentation collective. Une réponse poétique à la sursaturation de notre vie contemporaine. Le projet sera présenté le 5 décembre à Paris, lors de notre événement gratuit dédié à l’art numérique en partenariat avec le Centre culturel suisse @centreculturelsuisse , NEMO - la Biennale numérique du 104 Paris @biennalenemo , et le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles @cwb_paris . 🔗 Découvrez la capsule et réservez vos places pour l’évènement à Paris sur mbal.ch ___ The MBAL is delighted to unveil the fourth installment of its digital art platform 𝑶𝑹𝑩𝑰𝑻_𝑬, curated by 𝐊𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐥𝐚. At her invitation, 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐤 𝐙𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐚 brought together 27 artists to collaborate on a unique project. 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒎𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈>>> is a generative web page that composes digital collages in real time, transforming compulsive scrolling into a space for collective experimentation. A poetic response to the oversaturation of our contemporary lives. The project will be presented on December 5 in Paris, during our free event dedicated to digital art in partnership with the Swiss Cultural Center, NEMO - the Digital Biennale of 104 Paris, and the Wallonia-Brussels Center. 🔗 Discover the capsule and book your place for the event in Paris on mbal.ch Crédits Image : Canek, Zapata, doomscrolling>>>, 2025 ©️ Courtesy of the artist.

🖥️ LOADING… Browser Views: Exhibitions in an Internet Café Join us in this special event with a true Berlin-vibe, part of @artontezos . Three exhibitions will take over the computers of an internet café for a night! 🗓️ Nov 8 · 6–8 PM CET 📍 Berlin Presented by objktlabs & @objktone 01 /// Proof of Presence by objktlabs The artists from the first objktlabs residency will show together for the first time. 02 /// doomscrolling>>> by @objktone and ORBIT_E Project commissioned by @mbalelocle for their digital platform, ORBIT_E. Curated by @kn___studio . doomscrolling>>> is a webpage developed by @canekzapatap that generates endless real-time digital collages, built on a dynamic database of works from the objkt profile of the selected artists below. Line-up: @canekzapatap , zofi au gore, Agniis Evergrace, @guruguruhyena , @aesthetic.computer , Elna Frederick, @dissociative_dreams , @francoisegamma , @nohygiene , littlecakes, moeshit, @kikillokikillo , @mumble_nft , @simsproplayer , @moranicol.exe , @takashoshi , @davidvnun , @stipinp , @joncates , @webgurlart , @ferdoropeza , @ttiiimmees , @haydiroket , @eduardopolitzer , @michi_asu , @violetforest.js , @sabatobox and @nhephex 03 /// New Session by bootloader x GenArtClub More info soon. Line-up: @piterpasma , @0xstc , @aleksandrajovanic , @loackme , @amy_goodchild , cari ann shim sham

I am happy to have contributed to the curation of the Nuit de l'IA tonight - a screening of short films made with AI at the Cinéma Pathé at Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), within the AI Days event. My picks: "In dialogue with cove" by @kevinabosch "See a darkness" by @dissociative_dreams "The f*cking AI poetry generator" by @boriseldagsen "You are the alien" by littlecakes "Three women or the impossible memory" by Kika Nicolela "Memory place" by @margaretmurphyart "The third hybridization - chapter 1 - loss" by Kika Nicolela and @thomas__israel "Chickenhead" by @rbnsnstgrg Thank you @ol_gaillard and @transcultures for the invitation and the opportunity to share some of the great work being done by artists pushing the boundaries of how we can collaborate with AI in making moving image works. All the works are also minted as NFTs on @objktcom .

What shifts when digital works enter physical settings? From curating to experiencing, the gallery and installation context transforms how we see, feel and engage with art. Join us on X for conversation hosted by TAEX @taex_com and @artandvault . With guests: @ryan.koopmans @kn___studio @ina.vare @thedigitalcoy @efdot @toledomuseum Moderated by: @stefarel and Sofya Chibis @sofyamoves 🔗 Link in stories.

Excited to participate of the @noise_media_art fair in Istanbul next week with this exhibition I curated for @objktone . With @nohygiene , @denizzaidekorkmaz and @celikcerensu . ƧӨFƬ ΣЯЯӨЯ features a digital terrain that is tactile, messy, and unresolved. In this space, the human is not lost—but multiplied, fractured, and made strange.