LIGA VELINA

LAIKA RĪKI
TIME PATTERNS, 2025

Exhibition Curator and graphic designer of event identity: Mg. art. Līga Vēliņa

Exhibition Dates: November 7–28, 2025
Venue: 2nd floor,  Kronvalda boulevard 4

The exhibition brings together animations, installations, visual experiments, AI model training processes, and behind-the-scenes materials created by students of the Art Academy of Latvia between 2022 and 2025 — a period marked by a new cultural paradigm shift, in which artificial intelligence has become an everyday creative tool, a co-author in the artistic process, a promise of a better life, or an autonomous antagonist challenging human values, including those within the creative sphere. The exhibition presents not only student works where AI is applied pragmatically as a technological tool, but also critical artistic commentaries that reconsider the duality of transhumanist ideas — the belief in human progress through technological development as a dual and myth-laden process.

The exhibition participants are primarily 2nd–4th year students of the Audiovisual Media Art department, whose works were created within the framework of their studies while learning to use artificial intelligence tools under the guidance of Mag. art. Līga Vēliņa, as well as individual projects developed in other study modules that employ AI-based methods. To highlight the diversity of AI tools and themes explored at the Art Academy of Latvia, the exhibition also features an installation of a painting studio by Kristiāna Poce, a master’s student from the Department of Painting, where symbols and imagery of contemporary visual culture are transformed into paintings. In parallel, a video installation curated by artist Olga Golovko brings together her contemporaries — AI artists actively representing Instagram culture.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Students of Art Academy of Latvia ,the Department of Audiovisual Media Art, Motion. Image. Sound: Betija Jakaite, Dagnis Stikāns, Ance Dālmane, Lūcija Marta Dzenīte, Katrīna Kovaļuka, Kate Katrīne Arbidāne, Kristers Jakubovskis, Elīna Sundukova, Krista Kristiāna Mežavilka, Zane Neimane, Dajana Jefremova, and Linda Kristiāna Ijaba. Graduate of the Visual Communication: Ramona Cimziete. Department of Painting: Kristiāna Poce. Scientific doctoral student Līga Vėliņa, Professional doctoral student Laura Ozola. Curatorial Studies student: Olga Golovko — @babka_robot (Latvia) in collaboration with @0nastiia (Armenia), @__infrarouge (france), @alsoguppyme (Singapore), @doopiido (Serbia), @camaronadormida (USA)
SAMSUNG Workshop Participants: Emīlija Zvana, Ance Kapteine, Roberts Marga, Rasa Nata Beitnere, Viktorija Zubova, Paula Dejus, Artūrs Greivulis, Mārtiņš Ratniks, Olga Golovko.

Photo: Didzis Grodzs

Supported by: SAMSUNG, VPP CERS, Art Academy of Latvia, and the sub-program Motion.Image.Sound (KAS).
 
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