Sofia Crespo is an Argentine artist based in Lisbon, Portugal, whose practice explores the convergence of artificial intelligence and biological systems. Working as part of the artistic duo Entangled Others with Norwegian artist Feileacan Kirkbride McCormick, she investigates how organic life and artificial mechanisms simulate and evolve each other. Her work has been exhibited globally at institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and Times Square, New York City. In 2022, Entangled Others' piece Swim was acquired by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum for its permanent collection. Crespo's contributions to the field have been recognized with the AI Newcomer Award by the German Informatics Society.
Anna Ridler is an artist who works with systems of knowledge and how technologies are created in order to better understand the world. She is particularly interested in the natural world. Her process often involves working with collections of information or data, particularly data sets. Her work has been exhibited widely at cultural institutions worldwide including Times Square, the Barbican Centre, Centre Pompidou, HeK Basel, The Photographers’ Gallery, the ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She has received an honorary mention in the 2019 Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for the category AI & Life Art.
Both Ridler and Crespo were listed as some of the nine “pioneering artists” exploring AI’s creative potential by Artnet.