Opening Keynote by Paula Gaetano Adi
Description
Paula Gaetano Adi is an Argentine interdisciplinary artist working in robotics, video, and performance. Gaetano Adi’s robot Alexitimia was awarded the first prize in the international competition VIDA, Art & Artificial Life, and the first prize LIMBØ by the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires. Her Mestizo Robotics long-term project has been distinguished with Fundación Telefónica’s Award for Ibero-American artists, and she was awarded with the Creative Capital Award in 2023 for her project Guanaquerx. Winner of the 2025 Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the category Artificial Life & Intelligence, she is also a former fellow at Argentina’s National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance at UCLA, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s EMPAC. She currently lives between San Juan, Argentina, and Providence, RI, where she is Professor of Experimental & Foundation Studies and Computation, Technology, and Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).