You can participate via Zoom or join us on site live in UmArts research Studio, Arts Campus, Umeå University, where the speaker will be present. Welcome!
Dr. Romy Gad el Rab will talk about her new work in collaboration with Caroline Sinders 'Granted'- a new commision for the 'AI and the Paradox of Agency' Exhibition opening this friday at Bildmuseet. Giving an overview of her creative practice, discussing how working with researchers has shaped her current work and how working with machine learning and analogue data sets invites audience participation to evolve art works in the white space.
Speaker:
Dr Romy Gad el Rab is a Psychiatrist, researcher, and artist exploring our intimate entanglements with technology. Working in the NHS’s first centre for Internet Gaming Disorders, she combines clinical insight with interactive installation and performance to question digital addiction and the power structures behind networked systems. Her work has featured in programming at Tate, Somerset House, and Delfina Foundation, where she was a UK Associate for their 2025 thematic season, science_technology_society. A published academic and curator, she creates spaces where science, technology, and art meet through conversation, research, and making.