About Varvara & Mar

2024 AI Residency at Center for Humans & Machines, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany

2023 residency Wild Bits, Maajaam, Estonia

2023 residency research project A Third Hand, ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland

2022 award Startup meets Artist for Time‑lapse migration project, Mediafutures, EU funding programme S+T+ARTS

2022 residency, DDTLab in Trbovlje, Slovenia

2022 innovation award, Slovenian Ministry of Technology Development

2022 residency, Espacio Open, Bilbao, Spain

2021 acquisition by the National Collection of Contemporary Art of the Generalitat de Catalunya

2021 one of the winning works of Voronja Gallery Sculpture Garden competition

2021 residency, Abello Museum, Mollet del Vallès, Spain

2021 residency, Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián, Spain

2021 6 months artistic practice grant by Cultural Endowment of Estonia

2021 best creative project of Tallinn University 2021 for NeuroKnitting Beethoven project

2021 RUK residency at DDTLab in Trbovlje, Slovenia

2020 2nd prize, public art competition VITA building by Tallinn University, Estonia

2019 Finalists of Boyce‑Gyro Beach Park Public Art Stage Two by City of Kelowna, Canada

2019 WasteArt residency, Latvia and Estonia

2019 JustMad residency in Espacio Oculto (Madrid), Spain

2018 2nd prize, public art competition Fat Margaret by Marine Museum of Estonia

2018 Maajaam residency, Estonia

2017/18 3‑angled residency in hTh – CDN de Montpellier (Montpellier, France), Eufònic (Tierras del Ebro, Catalonia), Addaya Centre d’Art Contemporani (Mallorca)

2017 A.I.R. Blekinge Baltic One residency, Sweden

2017 SPUR residency at Bolit Contemporary Art Centre, Girona, Catalonia

2017 12‑month artistic practice grant by Cultural Endowment of Estonia

2017 FAM residency, Fab Lab Limerick, Ireland

2016 12 Miradas Riverside residency in Riveira Sacra

2016 3rd prize, public art competition of Põlva Gümnaasium by RKAS, Estonia

2016 1st prize, public art competition NUKU Theatre by RKAS, Estonia

2016 3rd prize, public art competition Pronksi 12 by RKAS, Estonia

2016 3‑month artistic practice grant by Cultural Endowment of Estonia

2016 Rambleta art production and research grant, Valencia, Spain

2015/16 Finalists of Green Square Library & Plaza Public Art Stage Two by City of Sydney

2015 FabAwards, third prize

2015 First prize of the Instructables 3D Printing Contest

2013 SUBNET AIR residency in Salzburg, Austria

2013 FLOSS residency at Constant Variable, Brussels, Belgium

2012/13 residency at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea

2012 residency at Marginalia+Lab, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2012 award of Baltic Goes Digital contest, Gdańsk, Poland

2012 residency at Verbeke Foundation, Belgium

2012 M4m Artist in Residency at MU Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2011 Artist in Residency at Crida, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2011 EMARE Artist in Residency at FACT, Liverpool, UK

2011 Collaborative Research Residency at FFKD in Copenhagen, Denmark

2010 Jury Prize for a media art installation at the 23rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany

2025 Quantum est in Libris – part of the permanent collection, Estonian National Museum (12 Jun'25 – ongoing), Tartu, Estonia

2023 Abello, Imaginary Landscape, Abello Museum (16 Sep'23 - 7 Jan'24), Mollet del Vallès, Spain

2022 After Everyone Left for Planet B, Kanal Gallery, Võru, Estonia (30 Jul - 10 Sep 2022)

2022 Synthetic Landscapes, Digitaliseum, Malmö, Sweden

2022 Psychedelic Trips, Alalimon Gallery, part of ISEA 2022 and Barcelona Gallery Weekend programmes (10 June - 18 Oct' 22)

2021/22 Dream Painter, Tabakalera, San Sebastián, Spain

2020 NeuroKnitting Beethoven, telematic performance curated by Susa Pop, Hong Kong Art Centre and Art Center Nabi in Seoul with Goethe Institut

2020 We Are the Clouds, UrbanScreen, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada

2019 Chameleon, New Gallery, Calgary, Canada

2018 Neuronal Landscapes permanent exhibition "My Free Country" in Estonian History Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

2018 Surveillance Capitalism, Sodu 4 gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2018 Chameleon, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Estonia

2018 Solo show Digital Stitches, Narva Art Residency, Estonia (21th – 22th Sept Oct’18)

2018 Super Documentation, Addaya Contemporary Art Centre, Mallorca, Spain

2017 Chameleon, Abello Museum, Mollet del Vallès, Spain

2017 Data Soup, ArtDealProject Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2017 Solo show “Kootud eksperimendid” / “Knitted Experiments”, Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia (11th Oct – 24th Oct’17)

2017 Data Soup, Digitaliseum, Malmö, Sweden

2016 Chameleon, Rambleta art centre, Valencia, Spain

2016 #digitallandscapes, Lo Pati Art Centre, Spain

2015 Tree of Hands, curated by Oyuki Matsumoto, Malmö Live concert hall, Sweden (22 Oct – 22 Nov)

2015 KnitFab, Super Surface Space Moscow, Russia (28 Sep – 16 Oct)

2014 Solo show Knitting Experiments, curated by Jerneja Rebnak, Maribor City Gallery, Slovenia (29th Aug – 28th Sept’14)

2014 Traveling Fish, Design and Architecture Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia (13 – 22 Mar)

2012 Solo show SPAMpoetry, STPLN, Malmö, Sweden (11th – 18th May'12)

2011 Execution #X, IAMAS OS, Ogaki, Japan (17 – 21 Jun)

2025 Visions of Destruction, Periphera, Lisbon, Portugal (14–16 Nov'25)

2025 A Needle in a Haystack, Festival Castel dei Mondi, Andria, Italy (5–14 Sep'25)

2025 Psychedelic Forms, Cosas que hacen Clac. Arte y cerámica, curated by José Luis Vicario, Centre del Carme de Valencia, Spain (11 Apr–14 Sep'25)

2024 A Needle in a Haystack, "Jää ja lood" Tartu Christmas City pavilions (Tartu European Capital of Culture 2024), Tartu, Estonia (30 Nov'24–5 Jan'26)

2024 A Needle in a Haystack, KiKK Festival (17-27 Oct'24), Namur, Belgium

2024 Humans Need Not Count, group show “The Future is Already Here”, Le Grenier à Sel, Avignon, France

2024 Visions of Destruction, CVPR AI Art Gallery 2024, curated by Luba Elliot, Seattle, USA (17–21 Jun'24)

2024 A Needle in a Haystack, Wild Bits land art exhibition (25 May - 15 Sep 2024), Maajaam, Estonia

2024 Only for the Eyes, group exhibition “Ex Libris” curated by Francisco Martínez at Sillart, Sillamäe, Estonia

2024 Visions of Destruction, TEI 2024 Art Gallery, Cork School of Music, Ireland (13 Feb'24)

2023 Various works, Cultural Analysis & Synthesis group show curated by Mar Canet, Cultural Data Analytics Conference 2023, Tallinn University, Estonia

2023 Visions of Destruction, Unruly Times, Art Gallery SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, Sydney, Australia (13–15 Dec'23)

2023 Beneath the Cloud, group show “Loading Ceramics” curated by Martin Melioranski and Lauri Kilusk, Estonian Museum of Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia (12 Sep - 12 Nov'23)

2023 Keep Smiling, Panoràmic Festival, Fundació Lluís Coromina – Espai Isern Dalmau, Barcelona (9 Nov-17Dec'23)

2023 Interactive NeuroKnitting, ACM VINCI Art Gallery “Ripples Across The Latent Space”, HKUST(GZ), Guangzhou, China

2023 Synthetic Landscapes, ISEA2023 Paris, curated by Vincent Auvray, Digitale Zone in Marseille and Caen, France

2023 WiFipedia Buenos Aires, group exhibition “Asuntos de nuestro espacio” curated by Cristian Reynaga, EAC Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay

2023 Psychedelic Forms, ACM TEI Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (28 Feb - 1 Mar 2023)

2023 Circular Knitic, group exhibition “Fait Machine” curated by Noëlig Le Roux & Margherita Balzerani, MIAM museum, Sète, France

2022 Keep Smiling, SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 art gallery, Daegu, South Korea (7-9 Dec'22)

2022 NeuroKnitting Beethoven, VISAP, IEEE VIS 2022, Oklahoma City, USA

2022 Dream Painter, ACM Multimedia conference art gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

2022 Keep Smiling, DRHA conference art gallery curated by Bill Balaskas, Stanley Picker Gallery (4-10 Sep'22)

2022 Keep Smiling, xCoAx conference art gallery, Coimbra, Portugal (6 July - 30 Sep'22)

2022 Synthetic-scapes of Tartu, VAIM group exhibition curated by Reet Varblane and Mare Taska, Tartu University Museum

2022 Psychedelic Forms, group exhibition “Art Mesh” curated by Torun Ekstrand, Cultural Center Ronneby Art Gallery, Sweden (5 - 22 Feb'22)

2022 Psychedelic Forms, group show Estampa art fair in the Alalimon Gallery booth, Madrid, Spain (13 – 16 Oct'22)

2021/22 Humans Need Not To Count, group show “Decision Making” curated by Dominique Moulon and Alain Thibault, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France

2021/22 Keep Smiling, group show “El desempleo tecnológico” curated by Adonay Bermúdez, Tabakalera, San Sebastián, Spain (7 Jan - 27 Feb'22)

2021 NFT Shop, Crypto Roots curated by Albert Barqué, part of the Sónar Festival Sónar Plus

2021 POSTcard Landscapes from Lanzarote I, II at DA Fest (International Digital Art Festival) curated by Venelin Shurelov and Galina Dimitrova-Dimova, Sofia, Bulgaria

2021 NeuroKnitting, group exhibition “Soft Negotiations” curated by Varvara Guljajeva and the Textile Department of EKA, EKA Gallery, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn

2021 Hidden Dimensions, group show “Quantum Critic” curated by Natalia Alekseeva, Ramiro Camelo and Timo Tuhkanen, Myymälä2 pop-up gallery, Helsinki and at Masters art school, St.Petersburg (15 - 31 Oct'21)

2021 Drawing Automata and I, Human and Eva, festival Speculum Atrium, Trbovlje, Slovenia

2021 Video Poems and Signal of the World, online group show “Instructions Instructions Follow” curated by Pau Waelder at Feral File (9 Sep 2021 - ongoing)

2021 NFT Shop and Video Poems, UIT festival curated by Kadri Lind and Marie Kliiman, Tartu, Estonia (18 - 21 Aug 2021)

2021 SPAMpoetry, group show “Linz: City of Media Arts – The Art of Interface” curated by Christa Sommerer and Cesar Escudero Andaluz, Macao International Art Biennale 2021, Mong-Ha Villas, Macao

2021 Rescue Plan, group show “Life in Decline” curated by Francisco Martínez, Estonian Mining Museum, Kohtla-Nõmme, Estonia (17 June - 3 Oct 2021)

2021 Phantom Landscapes of Buenos Aires, +CODE Festival curated by Tania Puente and Cristian Reynaga, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2021 POSTcard Landscapes from Lanzarote I, II, group show “Constructing Contexts” at the symposium Art Machines 2.0 curated by Tobias Klein and Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano, City University Hong Kong

2020 POSTcard Landscapes from Lanzarote I, II, group show “Expeditions” curated by Victor G. Moreno, Veintinueve Trece Festival, Lanzarote, Spain

2020 Under the Water, group show “Ecodata-Ecomedia-Ecoaesthetics” curated by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Yvonne Volkart, RIXC Art Science Festival, National Library of Latvia, Riga

2020 Data Shop, group show “BIG D@T@! BIG MON€Y!” curated by Michael Arzt, HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany

2020 The Rhythm of Heart, group show “Data are emotions | Emotions are data” curated by Joanna Rutkowska and Magda Kochanowska, Gdynia Design Days, Poland

2020 Data Shop, group show “E scap ES”, Association of Electronic Art and Experimental, Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid, Spain

2019/20 Binoculars to… Binoculars from…, group show “Open Codes” by ZKM curated by Blanca Giménez, Rakel Esparza, Fernando Pérez and Jaime de los Ríos at Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain

2019/20 PlasticLand, travelling exhibition “NOT out of sight, NOT out of mind” in the frame of the WasteArt project in Latvia and southern Estonia

2019 WiFipedia of Buenos Aires, group show “Asuntos de nuestro espacio” curated by Cristian Reynaga, Centro Cultural Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2019 Data Shop, Nemo biennale “Autonomie Zero” curated by Gilles Alvarez and Dominique Moulon, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France

2019 The Rhythm of Heart, symposium “Unboxing e-Realities” curated by Christiane Kühl, Goethe Institut Estland, Vaba Lava, Tallinn, Estonia

2019 Data Shop, group show “Breaking the 5th Wall”, Pixelache Festival, Helsinki, Finland

2019 Under the Water, JustMAD Art Fair, Palacio Neptuno, Madrid, Spain, in collaboration with Alalimón Gallery (26 Feb – 3 Mar 2019)

2019 Fantasy of Escape, group show “Wunderkammer: Utopic Objects” curated by Ricardo Iglesias, Library of Fine Arts, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

2019 Humans Need Not To Count, group show “Objects of Attention” curated by Francisco Martínez, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn

2018/19 Detecting alcoholism, Not just us, Small Addicts, group show “HOOKED” curated by Hannah Redler Hawes, Science Gallery London

2018/19 Humans Need Not To Count, group show “Open Codes” curated by Peter Weibel et al., ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

2018 Neuronal Landscapes, group show, Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden (26–30 Nov)

2018 Neuronal Landscapes, group show Mobile Week Coruña, A Coruña, Spain (24 Nov)

2018 WifiPedia and Data Drops, group show “OOPS” curated by Julian Stadon, University of Hertfordshire Arts, Hatfield, UK

2018 Data Shop, Digital Design Weekend, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

2018 Wishing Well, group show “Eesti kui mõtteline ruum” (part of EV100 art programme) curated by Kairi Orgusaar, Rapla County Contemporary Art Centre, Estonia

2018 Sunday Painter, group exhibition “Wild Bits” curated by Timo Toots, Taavi Suisalu, Kadri Lind and Marie Kliiman, Maajaam, Estonia

2018 Binoculars to… Binoculars from…, Ghent Light Festival, Belgium

2017 The Rhythm of Heart and The Big Other, Eufònic Festival, Museu de la Mar, Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Spain

2017 The Rhythm of Heart and The Big Other, MEQ Festival, hTh, Montpellier, France

2017 Smile, Maintenant Festival, Rennes, France

2017 Tree of Hands, Culture Festival SÄRIN, Rapla County Contemporary Art Centre, Estonia

2017 Data Shop, group exhibition PERRO curated by Javier Galan, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

2017 Flat Knitic, group show “Future Makers”, Fab Lab Limerick, Ireland

2017 Smile, GLOW Winter Light Festival, Calgary, Canada

2017 Humans Need Not To Count, group show “Humans Need Not Apply” curated by Amber Case and William Myers, Science Gallery Dublin, Ireland

2016 Smile, TAVA Tartu Light Festival, Estonia

2016 Detecting alcoholism. Not just us, small addicts, Ingràvid Festival, Santa Mònica, Barcelona and Museum of L’Empordà, Spain

2016 The Rhythm of Wind, exhibition “Arts in Nature Horizons 2016”, Sancy natural park, France. Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

2016 Data Drops, group show “Reverberadas”, ETOPIA, Zaragoza, Spain

2016 Smile and Tree of Hands, Glitch’d Hit group show “Remote Signals” curated by Pau Waelder, ARS building in the frame of Iberofest, Tallinn, Estonia (14 – 20 Mar)

2016 Speed of Markets, group exhibition “In Time (The Rhythm of the Workshop)” curated by Mildred Lasdon and Chief Curator Shannon R. Stratton, MAD Museum, New York (22 Feb – 22 May)

2016 Wishing Wall, group exhibition “Digital Revolution” curated by Conrad Bodman, Zorlu Centre, Istanbul, Turkey (16 Feb – 12 Jun)

2016 Smile, Tallinn Winter Festival, Estonia (5 – 7 Feb)

2016 Rhythm of City, group exhibition “Real Time” curated by Pau Waelder, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain (28 Jan – 10 Apr)

2016 WifiPedia, group show “Väljavaade” curated by Keret Altpere, Gallery Noorus, Tartu, Estonia (28 Jan – 13 Feb)

2016 SPAMpoetry, TADAEX Festival, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran (1 – 8 Jan)

2015/16 Wishing Wall, group exhibition “Digital Revolution” curated by Conrad Bodman, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece (19 Oct 2015 – 10 Jan 2016)

2015 Data Drops, DTL 2015 at MIT Media Lab, Boston, USA (16 – 17 Nov)

2015 Binoculars to… Binoculars from…, Aurora Festival, Dallas, Texas, USA (16 Oct)

2015 Circular Knitic, London Design Festival and V&A Museum, London, UK (26 – 27 Sep)

2015 WifiPedia, group show “TL;DR” curated by Stacey Koosel, Tallinna Kunstihoone Gallery (31 Jul – 23 Aug)

2014/15 Circular Knitic, group show “DOERS” curated by David Cuartielles, Etopia, Zaragoza, Spain (Dec 2014 – Jul 2015)

2014/15 Wishing Wall, group exhibition “Digital Revolution” curated by Conrad Bodman, Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (Oct 2014 – Aug 2015)

2014 The Highest Human Tower (Mobile World Capital commission), Music+Art exhibition in Mobile World Centre, Barcelona, Spain (21 Oct – 13 Dec)

2014 Wireless Poetry and Revealing Digital Landscape, group show “Systema” curated by Aja Martin, Zhulong Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA (25 Oct – 29 Nov)

2014 Rhythm of City, group exhibition “Digital City” curated by Daniel Artamendi, Donostia Kultura, San Sebastián, Spain (17 Oct – 15 Dec)

2014 Shopping in 1 Minute, Suur-Lasnamäe Urban Art Event, Tallinn, Estonia (24 Sep – 9 Nov)

2014 Wishing Wall, a commissioned piece by Google and Barbican Centre, group exhibition “Digital Revolution” curated by Conrad Bodman, Barbican Centre, London, UK (3 Jul – 14 Sep)

2014 NeuroKnitting, group exhibition “Corner”, ArtDealProject Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (19 Jun – 17 Aug)

2014 Rhythm of City, Festival CTI, Barcelona, Spain (14 – 29 Jun)

2014 Wireless Poetry and Revealing Digital Landscape, group show “The Hypnotist Collector” curated by Stacey Koosel, Nauart Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (6 – 27 Jun)

2014 Rhythm of City, group show “Hybrid Art”, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia (29 May – 24 Aug)

2014 NeuroKnitting, group show “Klanghypothesen” at subnet AIR and Stadtgalerie Lehen, Salzburg, Austria (6 – 22 Mar)

2014 Group show Unspoken at gallery Mitte Barcelona (5th – 29th Feb’14)

2013 Rhythm of City, group show “Transreal Topologies” curated by Julian Stadon, Adelaide, Australia

2013 Binoculars to… Binoculars from… at iMal, Brussels, in the frame of Connecting Cities

2013 Binoculars to… Binoculars from… at Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, in the frame of Connecting Cities

2013 Binoculars to… Binoculars from… at Riga2014, Latvia, in the frame of Connecting Cities

2013 Binoculars to… Binoculars from… at MediaLab Prado, Madrid, Spain, in the frame of Connecting Cities

2013 Binoculars to… Binoculars from… at CHB, Berlin, Germany, in the frame of Connecting Cities

2013 Binoculars to… Binoculars from… at Bauhaus Fest, Dessau, Germany, in the frame of Connecting Cities

2013 Binoculars to… Binoculars from… at Ars Electronica Museum, Linz, Austria, in the frame of Connecting Cities

2013 Binoculars to… Binoculars from… at FACT, Liverpool, UK, in the frame of Connecting Cities

2013 Binoculars to… Binoculars from… at Media Facade Festival, Helsinki, Finland (part of Connecting Cities)

2013 SPAMpoetry, group show “Technical Textiles”, Berlin, Germany (11 – 13 Apr)

2013 The Rhythm of São Paulo, part of the celebrations of São Paulo city, FIESP, São Paulo, Brazil (24 – 27 Jan)

2012/13 Shopping in 1 Minute, group exhibition “DIY”, DASA, Dortmund, Germany (Sept 2012 – Apr 2013)

2012 The Rhythm of São Paulo, SP_Urban Digital Festival, São Paulo, Brazil (9 – 12 Dec)

2012 Rhythm of City, Centro San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina (29 Nov – 10 Dec)

2012 Kombi and Knitic, Marginalia+Lab, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (28 Nov – 2 Dec)

2012 Baltic Sea Radio and Baltic Goes Digital award show, Gdańsk City Gallery, Poland (14 Sep – 4 Nov)

2012 SPAMpoetry, Malmö Festivalen, Malmö, Sweden (17 – 24 Aug)

2012 SPAMpoetry, Incubarte Festival, Valencia, Spain (21 – 23 Jun)

2012 Echinodermata, Flux of Sea and Sonima, group show “Naturalezas: hiper-vidas y micro-relatos”, MOB, Barcelona, Spain (13 Mar – 13 Apr)

2012 Echinodermata, JUSTMAD3 Art Fair, Madrid, Spain (16 – 19 Feb)

2012 Open Studio, MU house, Eindhoven, NL (13th Apr’12 )

2011/12 Shopping in 1 Minute, group exhibition “DIY”, Frankfurt and Berlin Communication Museums (Aug 2011 – Aug 2012)

2011 Flux of Sea, performance, Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum of Palma, Palma, Spain (9 Dec)

2011 Rhythm of City, Elektronika Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (12 – 27 Nov)

2011 Rhythm of City, LAB30 Festival, Augsburg, Germany (27 – 29 Oct)

2011 Rhythm of City, VAD Festival, Girona, Spain (6 – 15 Oct)

2011 Popcorn for Cycling, AND Festival, Liverpool, UK (23 Sep – 2 Oct)

2011 RepairStation, performance, FFKD, Copenhagen, Denmark (20 May)

2011 Rhythm of City, Enter5 Biennial, CIANT, Prague, Czech Republic (14 – 23 Apr)

2011 Echinodermata and Sonima, LiveHerring11 Biennial, Saarijärvi, Finland (8 Apr – 8 Jun)

2010 Augmented Photography and Shopping in 1 Minute, Kiblix Festival, Kibla Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia (18 – 28 Nov)

2010 Augmented Photography, UAMO Festival, München, Germany (21 – 24 Oct)

2010 Augmented Photography and My Name is 192.168.159.16, White Night Skopje 2010, Skopje, Macedonia (25th Sept’10)

2010 My Name is 192.168.159.16, 23rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter Stuttgart, Germany (20th-30th Jan'10) received a jury prize for media art installation at 23rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter

2010 Augmented Photography and Shopping in 1 Minute, Ars Electronica2010 Campus exhibition, Linz, Austria (2 – 9 Sep'10)

2010 My Name is 192.168.159.16, Espacioenter 2010 International Meeting of Creativity Innovation & Digital Culture, Canarias, Spain (25th-27th Nov’10)

2009 My Name is 192.168.159.16, Group show Fantasmarama, Linz, Austria (2nd - 3rd Sept'09)

• 2026 Guest lecture: Teaching generative AI applied to audiovisual media at the Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre (CITM) at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• 2025 Conference keynote at the Art and Technology Symposium From ”Learning” To ”Being and Creation”, November 22nd, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China
• 2025 Conference presentation: Why Open Small AI Models Matter for Interactive Art and Education at TRANSFORM25 - Conference on AI, Art, Design and Society, Campus of Art and Design; University of Applied Sciences Trier, Germany
• 2025 Artist talk ISEA 2025, South Korea
• 2025 Deconstructing AI in Artistic Practice PANEL presentation ISEA 2025, South Korea
• 2025 Guest lecture: Artist talk at the Winchester School of Art, UK
• 2024 Book presentation: Portrait Fever at Joan Abello Museum, Spain
• 2024 Conference keynote: Artistic Strategies to Guide Neural Networks at the 8th Computer Art Congress (CAC) in La Plata, Argentina
• 2024 Keynote presentation at Correlations Forum for AI in Art & Design, HfG Offenbach, Germany
• 2024 Festival talk: Artistic Strategies to Guide Neural Networks at KiKK Festival, Namur, Belgium
• 2024 Conference presentation: We are the Clouds: Strategies for Combining Interaction and Participation in Urban Media Art at ISEA 2024, Brisbane, Australia
• 2024 Conference presentation: Visions of Destruction, CVPR 2024 in Seattle, USA
• 2024 Invited conference presentation: Artistic Strategies to Guide Neural Networks at the 2nd Creative, Performing Arts & Media Research Forum, MTU Cork, Ireland
• 2023 Conference presentation: Visions of Destruction at the NeurIPS 2023 Workshop, New Orleans, USA
• 2023 Conference presentation: Visions of Destruction: Experiencing Climate Crisis through Interactive AI‑aided Artwork at the Cultural Data Analytics Conference / CUDAN 2023, Tallinn University, Estonia
• 2023 Conference presentation: Visions of Destruction at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, Sydney, Australia
• 2023 Panel discussion: The role of new technologies in artistic creation at Panoràmic Festival, Barcelona, Spain
• 2023 Guest lecture: Artist talk at ITP MA, NYU Shanghai, China
• 2023 Invited talk: Neuro‑cosmology in The Tao of Tai lecture series at Roy Ascott Studio, Shanghai, China
• 2023 Guest lecture: Artist talk at the Master of Arts in Interaction Design, SUPSI, Switzerland
• 2023 Guest lecture: Artist Guided Neural Network, School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden
• 2023 Conference presentation: Exploring the catastrophic impact of human interaction on nature at the symposium Expanded Animation 2023, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
• 2023 Poster presentation: Explaining CLIP through Co‑Creative Drawings and Interaction, 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), University of Waterloo, Canada
• 2023 Invited conference presentation: AI‑aided Ceramic Sculptures: Bridging Deep Learning with Materiality at the conference Artistic Originality in the Age of AI, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
• 2023 Invited presentation: AI‑aided Ceramic Sculptures: Bridging Deep Learning with Materiality at SAAI Workshop, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 2023 Conference presentation: Artistic Strategies to Guide Neural Networks, ISEA 2023, Paris, France
• 2023 Conference presentation: AI‑Aided Ceramic Sculptures: Bridging Deep Learning with Materiality at EvoMUSART 2023, Brno, Czech Republic
• 2023 Guest lecture: Artist talk, Ciclo Design + Multimedia CMD Talks, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• 2023 Guest lecture: Artist talk, The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden
• 2022 Guest lecture: Artist Guided Neural Networks, Digital Design and Creative Technology Department, University of Lleida, Spain
• 2022 Guest lecture: Artist Guided Neural Networks, BAU Design School, Barcelona, Spain
• 2022 Conference presentation: Keep Smiling, SIGGRAPH Asia 2022, Daegu, South Korea
• 2022 Conference presentation: Interactive NeuroKnitting Beethoven, VISAP 2022, Oklahoma City, USA
• 2022 Invited lecture: Computational Design, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA (14 Oct 2022)
• 2022 Keynote: Artist Guided Neural Networks – automated creativity or tools for extending minds? at Artificial Intelligence – Intelligent Art? conference, TU Braunschweig, Germany (7–9 Oct 2022)
• 2022 Telematic performance: Forced by Pandemic: NeuroKnitting Beethoven at the DRHA conference, London, UK
• 2022 Panel discussion: Making sense of the NFT Art Market at the DRHA conference, London, UK
• 2022 Talks: NFT Shop & Sensemaking of the NFT Art Market – is NFT a blessing or a curse to digital art? at the CAC.7 conference, Geneva, Switzerland
• 2022 Paper presentation: Keep Smiling, xCoAx 2022 conference, Coimbra, Portugal
• 2022 Talk: Dream Painter exploring creative possibilities of AI‑aided speech‑to‑image synthesis in the interactive art context, SIGGRAPH 2022, Vancouver, Canada
• 2022 Keynote: Artist Guided Neural Networks – automated creativity or tools for extending minds? at the Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society virtual conference
• 2022 Lecture: Augmented creativity and labour as part of the Industry 4.0 Design Strategies program at LUCA School of Arts, Belgium
• 2021 Talk: ENA – participative art forms in a time of pandemics, CICA New Media Art Conference, Seoul, South Korea
• 2021 Artist talk: Synthetic Landscapes at +CODE Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 2021 Presentation: ENA – participative art forms in a time of pandemics, Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
• 2021 Artist talk, KIBLIX 2021, Slovenia
• 2020 Talk: Hardware for Artists, Maker Faire Bilbao, Spain
• 2020 Lecture: The Role of Prototyping in Media Art Practices, Update BACKUP festival at MPLab, Liepaja, Latvia
• 2020 Presentation: Creative Use of AI and New Photography, Veintinueve trece festival, Lanzarote, Spain
• 2020 Keynote: Exploring Potentials and Risks of AI Technology from a Perspective of Creatives at the conference Decoding New Technologies in Art and Design, Estonian Academy of Arts, as part of Ars Electronica Festival
• 2019 Presentation: Re‑visiting connections, conference of exhibition Open Codes. We Are Data, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain
• 2019 Talk: Soft Digital Fabrication, TED 20th Anniversary, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
• 2019 Talk: Colonization with LOVE, symposium Unboxing e‑Realities curated by Christiane Kühl, Goethe Institut Estland, Vaba Lava, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2019 Artist talk, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada
• 2018 Presentation: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and Dataveillance, RIXC Conference, Riga, Latvia
• 2018 Lecture: Surveillance Capitalism, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
• 2018 Artist talk, Bolit Contemporary Art Centre, Girona, Spain
• 2017 Talk: Beyond interactivity: the unsolved question of interactive art, Virtualities & Realities conference at RIXC Festival, Riga, Latvia
• 2017 Lecture: Digital space, Tartu Art College, Estonia
• 2016 Lecture: Creativity and Innovation, Tartu Art College, Estonia
• 2016 Talk: Technology as a tool for rethinking the world, Tallinn University Summer School, Estonia (19 Jul 2016)
• 2016 Presentation: From code to magic at X‑Studio, Istanbul (10 Feb 2016)
• 2016 Guest lecture, Master program of Visual Art + Multimedia, University of Valencia, Spain (21 Jan 2016)
• 2015 Talk: From code to magic, Design and Computation group, MIT, Cambridge, USA
• 2015 Lecture: Soft Digital Fabrication, Bau Design Forum, Barcelona, Spain
• 2015 Presentation: From code to magic, Digital Media Department of UPF, Barcelona, Spain
• 2015 Lecture: Soft Digital Fabrication, WeMake, Milan, Italy
• 2015 Lecture: From code to magic, open lecture at SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland
• 2014 Lecture: From code to magic, Etopia, Zaragoza, Spain
• 2014 Lecture: From code to magic, Topconf, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2014 Keynote, MIRA Festival, Barcelona, Spain
• 2014 Talk: City as Data Body, Donostia Kultura, San Sebastián, Spain
• 2014 Artist talk, Ljudmila, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 2014 Lecture: Knitic – Soft Digital Fabrication, Cipke, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 2014 Artist talk at Bloomberg Art+Tech event, London, UK
• 2013 Presentation: Unexpected Ways How IT Meets Art, Estonian IT College
• 2013 Lecture: Knitic – Open Source Knitting Machine at Toulouse Hacker Space Factory Conference, Toulouse, France
• 2013 Lecture: Knitic – Open Source Knitting Machine, Technical Textiles, Berlin, Germany
• 2013 Lecture: Knitic – Open Source Knitting Machine, Open Source Open Course at the Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels, Belgium
• 2012 Lecture: Development of Personal Manufacturing: Case Study Knitic, Mutamorphosis conference, CIANT, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2012 Lecture: Development of Digital Fabrication: Case Study Knitic printer, Prospectives’12, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
• 2012 Lecture: Development of Digital Fabrication: Case Study Knitting printer, Open Knowledge Festival, Helsinki, Finland
• 2012 Artist talk, STPLN, Malmö, Sweden
• 2012 Artist talk and lecture, IDC, Howest University, Kortrijk, Belgium
• 2011 Paper presentation, ISEA 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2011 Artist talk, Hiroshima University, Japan
• 2011 Artist talk, IAMAS, Ogaki, Japan
• 2011 Artist talk, FFKD, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2011 Presentation: The Rhythm of City, Enter5 Symposium, CIANT, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2010 Presentation: The Rhythm of City, Amber Conference, Istanbul, Turkey

• 2024 31 Oct: AI Unplugged, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Humans & Machines, Berlin, Germany
• 2024 27 Oct: Exploring Generative AI with ComfyUI, KiKK Festival, Namur, Belgium
• 2023 9 – 14 Jun: Super Artistic AI workshop, SAAI Factory at L’Art Pur Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 2023 10 Jan: AI for Creatives workshop, School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden
• 2022 17 – 18 Dec: Blockchain workshop, Bilbao Maker Faire, Spain
• 2020 19 – 20 Dec: (un)preci(a)se Robots workshop, Bilbao Makerfaire, Spain
• 2020 10 – 17 Nov: Open Source Hardware: From Fibres to Fabrics, Fabricademy
• 2020 Nov – Dec: Invisible workshop, ESDAP, Catalonia, Spain
• 2019 28 Oct: Wifipedia workshop, Baltic Road Trip, EUNIC, Valga, Estonia
• 2019 7 – 10 Oct: Circular Knitic workshop, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
• 2019 3 Jun: Introduction to Arduino workshop, Latvian Art Academy, Riga, Latvia
• 2019 25 May: Data Shop workshop, Pixelache Festival, Helsinki, Finland
• 2019 16 Feb: Data Shop workshop, group show “Objects of Attention” curated by Francisco Martínez, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2019 27 Jan: One Flag Every Day workshop, solo show “Chameleon”, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Estonia
• 2018 13 Nov: Open Source Hardware: From Fibres to Fabrics, Fabricademy
• 2018 19 May: Data Shop workshop, AMRO Festival, Linz, Austria
• 2018 4 Jan: Data Shop workshop, Bolit Contemporary Art Centre, Girona, Spain
• 2017 14 Nov: Open Source Hardware: From Fibres to Fabrics, Fabricademy
• 2017 11 Oct: Circular Knitic workshop, Maintenant Festival, Rennes, France
• 2017 19 Feb: Throwies workshop, GLOW Winter Lights Festival, Calgary, Canada
• 2017 18 Feb: Interactive Light workshop, GLOW Winter Lights Festival, Calgary, Canada
• 2016 25 – 28 Oct: Raspberry Pi workshop, Varvara & Mar studio, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2016 12 Nov: One Flag Every Day workshop, solo show “Chameleon”, La Rambleta, Valencia, Spain
• 2016 22 Oct: Interactive Light workshop, TAVA Tartu Light Festival, Estonia
• 2015 28 – 29 Dec: 3D Printing workshop, Espai Erre, Barcelona, Spain
• 2015 7 – 8 Nov: Animate with Code workshops for families and educators, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
• 2015 27 – 28 Oct & 3 – 4 Nov: Arduino for Beginners workshop, Varvara & Mar studio, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2015 21 – 23 Sep: 3D Printing workshop, Varvara & Mar studio, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2015 4 – 12 Aug: Arduino for Beginners course, Mektory, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2015 16 – 18 Jun: 3D Printing workshop, Varvara & Mar studio, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2015 12 – 14 Jun: Animate with Code workshop, Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2015 12 – 14 May: Arduino for Beginners course at the Textile Department of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2015 1 May: Circular Knitic workshop, Espacio Open, Bilbao, Spain
• 2015 28 – 29 Apr: Circular Knitic workshop, Ultra‑Lab, Madrid, Spain
• 2015 26 Mar – 9 Apr: Arduino for Beginners course, Mektory, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2015 7 Feb: Circular Knitic workshop, WeMake, Milan, Italy
• 2014 14 – 18 Jul: Young Creators workshop facilitated by Google and Barbican, London, UK
• 2014 26 – 27 Mar: Urban Bees 2.0 workshop with Mar Canet and OpenSystems University of Barcelona, Hangar, Barcelona, Spain
• 2013 18 May: Knitic workshop, PianoFabrique, Constant, Brussels, Belgium
• 2012 27 Dec: Kombi II workshop, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, South Korea
• 2012 12 – 13 May: Digital Knitting Fabrication workshop, STPLN, Malmö, Sweden
• 2012 11 Apr: Robotics with Arduino workshop, Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands
• 2012 22 – 23 Mar: Robotics + Digital Fabrication workshop, MU & Impakt, Netherlands
• 2012 14 Mar: Introduction to Robotics with Arduino, MOB, Barcelona, Spain
• 2011 Aug: ISA International Summer University, Ohrid, Macedonia

• 2022 co-curator and co-chair of CMA International Symposium and Exhibition Electric Dreams, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
• 2021 curator, group show of EKA Textile Department Soft Negotiations, Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) Gallery, Tallinn
• 2020 ENA (online generative chatbot as theatre experience) in collaboration with Roger Bernat, Teatro Lliure, Barcelona
• 2018 curators, out-door exhibition of TAVA Tartu Light Festival, Estonia
• 2018 curators and organisers, OPEN ARS: CONNECTORIUM, ARS Art Factory, Tallinn, Estonia