Paola Torres Núñez del Prado

Honorary Mention @Prix Ars Electronica, 2021 - Google Artists + Machine Intelligence Residence Grant recipient, 2019 - Vivo Arte.mov Mobile Media Award, Brasil, 2013.

Her performances and her artworks, which are also part of the collections of Malmo Art Museum and the Public Art Agency of Sweden, have been presented in diverse countries of the Americas, Central Europe, and Scandinavia, where she is currently based.

Paola is an artist & researcher whose work navigates the intersections of art, craft, science, and technology. Her practice puts forward non-Western genealogies of computation, drawing on Andean textile knowledge systems, ecological entanglements, and even machine learning. She has been recipient of the Google Arts & Culture Artists + Machine Intelligence Grant and an Ars Electronica award in the AI category, and she curated Sweden’s first AI art exhibition. Her projects include interactive textiles woven with lichens, decentralized sound systems driven by khipu-inspired code, and experimental interfaces that rethink the relationship between nature, culture and technology. Through coding, sound, and material experimentation that involves textile and traditional mediums such as painting, her work asks how we might imagine other technological futures—ones grounded in relational ontologies, ecological entanglements, and cultural pluralism.