Junior Research Fellow
Baltic Film, Media and Arts School
Tallinn University
Antonina studies cognitive modelling in art education and the usage of cultural data in online art education.
Antonina is a junior research fellow and a PhD student at Baltic Film Media and Arts school, Tallinn University. Her research interests (cognitive modeling, and the usage of cultural data in online art education) are linked with CUDAN project. She has a bachelor’s degree in Arts; after graduation from the Academy of Arts (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) in 2018, she completed a master’s degree at the University of Tartu (2020, Estonia). Trained as a set designer in Russia, she worked in theatre, monumental painting, and art education. The master’s degree in Educational Technology opened to Antonina new prospects for art education, as well as the need for research in this area. Antonina envisions cognitive science and cultural data analytics as a promising union for the creation of a new kind of art school
Sandra Alvaro is artist and theorist working at the intersection of art, philosophy and technology. She develops a theory grounded in practice for the mapping of conceptual frameworks which improve our understanding of the current sociotechnical system and its relations with the Anthropocene. Among her research main areas are the aesthetics and politics of computational technologies; the epistemology of data-driven models; collaborative design and the emergence of new communities of practice; the commons and environmental justice; new materialism and posthumanist philosophy.
Sandra Alvaro is adjunct professor at the Art Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Her dissertation, “Postdigital City. Aesthetics and Politics in the Space of Embodied Virtuality”, was awarded the mention of International Doctorate and was included in the Leonardo Labs Abstracts Service. She also holds MA’s in Contemporary Art Theory (UAB) and Philosophy of Culture (UB) and a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Escola Massana in Barcelona.
She has been researcher fellow of the program of Culture Analytics at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) in the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and invited artist/researcher at the Laboratoire Paragraphe/CITU at the University Paris 8.