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Kat Suryna
Kat Suryna is an international figurative artist with a background in academic philosophy. Her work has been exhibited in Estonia, Hungary, Austria, Hong Kong, and Denmark. Her art focuses on the human body, queer identity, the life in megapolises, and architectural narratives. As a researcher, Kat Suryna investigates the relation between artistic work, science, and scholarly research, in particular, the potential of transdisciplinary practices at the intersection of art, science and technology to promote media literacy and make up for the institutional failures of science. She is also interested in the science and technology studies (STS) of scientific representations, scientific credibility construction, science and policy communication, as well as public oversight of environmentally hazardous industrial infrastructures.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

  • March 17 – March 25, 2023. (Next Comic Festival) Guardians of Budapest and Vienna, Damen & Herrenstraße DH5, Linz, Austria.
  • December 12, 2022 – January 7, 2023. (group exhibition) Lotsremark Projects, Basel, Switzerland.
  • May 10 – 11, 2022. (group exhibition) Micro POM Aalborg Edition. Transition Regimes: Cultures of Media Art. CREATE, Aalborg, Denmark.
  • July 5 – 18, 2021. (group exhibition) And the Ship Sails On: art.practice.research, JCCAC, Hong Kong.
  • April 16 – May 14, 2021 (group exhibition) Wachau: Augenweide & Lebensraum, Daliko Galerie, Krems, Austria.
  • March 10 – April 6, 2021. (group exhibition) FUTURE MEMORIES. Utopia Dystopia Nature, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong.
  • 2019. Wachauer Weinreben. Josef Strohmayer Gallerie. Stein a.d. Donau, Austria. 
  • 2019. Mzansi. Josef Strohmayer Gallerie. Stein a.d. Donau, Austria. 
  • 2019. Mzansi. Afro Chic. Krems a.d. Donau, Austria. 
  • 2018. Landscapes of Mind. The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA). Budapest, Hungary.
  • 2014. Chronotop / Déjà Rêvé. Training Center Punane Puu. Tallinn, Estonia.
  • 2014. Planetario: Observaciones Estelares Especulativas (collaboration with Rodrigo Guzman Serrano). Y Gallery. Tartu, Estonia.
  • 2014. Dorado/Lacerta (collaboration with Rodrigo Guzman Serrano). Science Centre AHHAA. Tartu, Estonia. 

RESIDENCIES, PRESENTATIONS & OTHER

  • Nov. 2018-Jan. 2019. Center for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen University. Guest researcher. Copenhagen. Denmark.
  • Nov. 2018. Agents without Agency: Artificial Intelligence as Artistic Medium (with Rodrigo Guzman Serrano). Taboo–Transgression–Transcendence in Art & Science. UNAM and Centro de Cultura Digital. Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Oct. 2018. "Science-Art beyond Education and Illustration" and "Computer Creativity and the Use of AI in Science and Art Production." Lectures to Ph.D. and M.A. students. University of Art and Design Linz, Austria.
  • Aug.-Oct. 2018. University of Art and Design Linz and the Ars Electronica Archives. Research internship. Linz, Austria.
  • Sept. 2018. Don’t Abide by Intuition but Explain It: Illusionism As a Successor to Eliminativism. Presentation. Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy SOPhiA. Salzburg, Austria.
  • May 2018. Delete ‘Persons’, Insert ‘Information-Processing Systems’: Art and the Machinistic Discourse of Computationalism (with Rodrigo Guzman Serrano). Presentation. EVA-Politics of the Machines. Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • ​April 2018. Kunst belebt Wirtschaft #13: Selbstportrait und künstliche Intelligenz in der Medienkunst. Panel participant. Oberbank Donau-Forum. Linz, Austria.
  • 2017. A Feeling of Clarification: Neurodocetism in a ‘Thoroughly Naturalistic’ Philosophy. Presentation. 10th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy. Budapest, Hungary.
  • 2016. What Does the Strongly Naturalized Phenomenology Achieve in Cognitive Sciences? Presentation. 9th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy. Budapest, Hungary.
  • 2015. Between a Felt and Constructed Self. Presentation. 8th In-house Philosophy Graduate Conference, CEU, Department of Philosophy. Budapest, Hungary.
  • June 2014. Trükimuuseum (Estonian Printing Museum). Artist in Residence. Tartu, Estonia.
  • May 2014. "Print your own nocturnal skies." Workshop on monotype printing technique at the Estonian Printing Museum. Tartu, Estonia.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Suryna, K. and R. Guzman. 2019. "Agents without Agency: Artificial Intelligence as Artistic Medium." In Proceedings of TTT Mexico City 2018, ed. Dalila Honorato, MariaAntonia Gonzalez Valerio, Marta de Menezes, and Andreas Giannakoulopoulos.
  • Suryna, K. and R. Guzman. 2018. "Delete ‘Persons’, Insert ‘Information-Processing Systems': Art and the Machinistic Discourse of Computationalism." In Proceedings of EVA Copenhagen 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVAC18.36.
  • Suryna, K. 2014. "'Subject’ and ‘Self’ in Biosemiotics: On Conditions of a Legitimate Application of ‘Subject’ in Biosemiotics and Prerequisites of a Biosemiotic Approach to the Self." In Chinese Semiotic Studies, 11(3): 509-520.​