Holly Grimm [US]
Born in Denver, Colorado, of Diné (Navajo) origin. She is schooled at Stanford University and is based in New Mexico. She is a Software Engineer with 20+ years of development experience. She is also a... Born in Denver, Colorado, of Diné (Navajo) origin. She is schooled at Stanford University and is based in New Mexico. She is a Software Engineer with 20+ years of development experience. She is also a formal painter, using both brushes and paints as well as Machine Learning to create works of art. Holly has written a neural net, ACAN, to augment AI-generated art with values of art composition such as texture, contrast, and color. The “Aikphrasis Project” that she will present in the Sentient Machines? exhibition unites vision and experience across a range of media and practice and ends up as a virtual art show within a real-world A.I. exhibition.

Mindaugas Gapševičius (LT) + Maria Safronova Wahlström
Mindaugas Gapševičius lives and works in Berlin, Weimar and Vilnius. His work explores the impact of non-human actors on human creativity and the impact of humans on the umwelt. He has completed MA st...

Maria Safronova Wahlström is an artist based in Gothenburg. With a deep interest in social myths, she is working with themes of collective behaviour and linguistic practices that signal our social bel...

Their project You and I, You and Me presented in Candyland explores the impact of the environment through electricity. How far could electricity help in understanding the other? Is there a possibility... Mindaugas Gapševičius lives and works in Berlin, Weimar and Vilnius. His work explores the impact of non-human actors on human creativity and the impact of humans on the umwelt. He has completed MA studies at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1999 and received a Master of Philosophy degree from the Goldsmiths University of London. He is a creative fellow at the Bauhaus University in Weimar since 2015. Gapševičius was one of the initiators and founders of Institutio Media, the first Lithuanian media art platform (1998), as well as the European Migrating Art Academies network for emerging artists (2008). Along with colleagues from the TOP association, he initiated the first TOP community biolaboratory in Berlin (2016). In 2019 he established Alt lab, a laboratory for non-disciplinary research in Vilnius. Gapševičius’s works have been shown at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz (2019, 2020), the National Gallery of Art and MO Museum in Vilnius (2019), Piksel festival in Bergen (2018), RIXC art and science festival in Riga (2016), Pixelache festival in Helsinki (2015 and 2016), Pixxelpoint festival in Nova Goritsa (2014), KUMU Museum in Tallin (2011).

Maria Safronova Wahlström is an artist based in Gothenburg. With a deep interest in social myths, she is working with themes of collective behaviour and linguistic practices that signal our social belonging. Issues of relations between collective identity and individual formation, our maintenance of social boundaries and moral and ideological branding form the main field of her practice. From a background in classical painting, she moved into the field of sculpture and installation where she seeks juxtapositions of conceptual and visual form, translated through material and space. In different projects she works between small objects, large scale sculptures, graphics and painting.

Their project You and I, You and Me presented in Candyland explores the impact of the environment through electricity. How far could electricity help in understanding the other? Is there a possibility to alter human senses by electric impulses? During the participatory event, theaudience is invited to experience the environment, including other humans, by wearing jewelry, shoes, and headwear.

Servando Barreiro [SE]
Has a background is in Electronics, Sound and Audiovisual communication. He started his artistic career early on by showing a video performance in the Reina Sofía contemporary art museum in Madrid. Fr... Has a background is in Electronics, Sound and Audiovisual communication. He started his artistic career early on by showing a video performance in the Reina Sofía contemporary art museum in Madrid. From that point on, he continued self-educating about the subjects of Art+ science+ technology. He considers himself lucky to have been around Medialab Madrid, precisely when they started teaching and organizing lectures about media / technology / electronic art. A couple of years later, he moves to Berlin where he does various Artist in residencies. He has lived in Perú, Stockholm, México and California.
www.servando.teks.no

Idun Isdrake
Game designer, film, stage and transmedia director, moving in the inbetweens and unknowns, hacking forced power structures. Inclusion and diversity is at the core of its productions, ranging from comp... Game designer, film, stage and transmedia director, moving in the inbetweens and unknowns, hacking forced power structures. Inclusion and diversity is at the core of its productions, ranging from computer games linked from its body, to film noir and landscape photography. Isdrake is the founder of Swedens first game and transmedia lab, The Collaboratory, as well as first game art gallery, Epic Unidragon. Their work includes many years of building a better infrastructure for digital culture in Sweden and globally, in dialogue with communities in hacker labs, makerspaces, museums, libraries, the EU Commission, academia and various industries. Currently Isdrake is doing PhD research at Concordia University Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Portfolio https://isdrake.com/

About “Innovation labs and cyborg bodies”
Through a counter tactic perspective, with planetary accountability, Isdrake's work and research prototype diverse human computer interfaces and narratives, aiming to limit bias in the development of new technologies and science (fiction). This includes working with datasets for AI systems, diverse narrative design, testing environment friendly solutions for powering and disposing of used technologies, as well as proposing inclusive interfaces. 
At the Futureless Festival Isdrake will talk about their process of building innovation labs in Sweden, how to work with diverse and accessible design, and demo a few of their art works. 
The demos will mainly focus on implanted interfaces based on Near Field Communication technology (NFC). Isdrake has a couple of experiences linked from its body, some developed with other organic or inorganic entities. Creating an endosymbiotic relationship between human flesh and other entities, an intimate dialogue only accessible through consent. Games, music and other expressions can be communicated through body modification, a human practice with ancient history, often connected to identity expression but also trauma and oppression. Embodied technologies and digital art as a voice for the silenced voices and disabled bodies, is one of the strongest motivations behind this work.
Research documentation https://imperceptible.space/

Vishnu Vardhani RAJAN (FI)
Body-Philosopher and Performance Artist based in Helsinki. A hyphenated identity, multidisciplinary practices, building connections between art, science, witchcraft, history and cultures define her. V... Body-Philosopher and Performance Artist based in Helsinki. A hyphenated identity, multidisciplinary practices, building connections between art, science, witchcraft, history and cultures define her. Vishnu explores shame, through dance, acting and stand-up comedy. Oscillating between cultures, methodologies and sexual identities, each different from the other are instrumental in her visual Language. Her everyday practice is rooted in an ongoing investigation of sensory experience.

Rut Karin Zettergren, Choteria Freer & Anna Kinbom
Rut Karin Zettergren born 1984 in Gothenburg is an artist who works with film, video installations and performance. She holds a MFA from Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and has studied art at Make...

Choterina Freer explores current technological, architectural, and collective experiences by compositing them against historical art practices, mythologies, and speculative fictions in order to consid...

Anna Kinbom works with text based performances, micro histories and alter egos. She has made commissioned performances for Stockholm Konst (2020), Marabouparken (2017) and Moderna Museet (2015) in St... Rut Karin Zettergren born 1984 in Gothenburg is an artist who works with film, video installations and performance. She holds a MFA from Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and has studied art at Makere University in Uganda and ISA in Cuba. Her work focuses on questions about the technological development from feminist and futuristic perspectives, the influence of the Internet on popular cultures and historical events that shaped contemporary culture.

Choterina Freer explores current technological, architectural, and collective experiences by compositing them against historical art practices, mythologies, and speculative fictions in order to consider ideas for possible futures. These assemblages take the form of video, animation, and performance.

Anna Kinbom works with text based performances, micro histories and alter egos. She has made commissioned performances for Stockholm Konst (2020), Marabouparken (2017) and Moderna Museet (2015) in Stockholm and exhibited with 0s+1s Collective at Casa Victor Hugo in Havana and at Göteborgs konsthall. Anna received her MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm 2013 and has studied Performative Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

They will present “ Nina, K and Connie (2019)” an audio performance with acknowledgement to Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy and (1976) and Zeros and Ones by Sadie Plant (1997).

Hara Alonso [SE]
pianist and composer based in Stockholm. Her music blends electronic and instrumental elements generating complex and imaginative sonic universes. Her creative practice questions the hegemonic narrati... pianist and composer based in Stockholm. Her music blends electronic and instrumental elements generating complex and imaginative sonic universes.

Her creative practice questions the hegemonic narratives around music and technologies by resignifing its tools and knowledge. By means of improvisation, somatics, physicality, DIY interfaces and coding, Hara composes new sonic systems and languages. For Futureless Festival, she will perform with piano + electronics, and do live coding for the Algorave.

Bohdana Korohod & Heneliis Notton [EE]
Bohdana Korohod (b. 1997) is Ukrainian independent researcher and interdisciplinary artist, currently living and working in Estonia. Her main tool is documentation which she performs-with text, photography, and video. She is one of the curators at eˉlektron, Tallinn... Bohdana Korohod (b. 1997) is Ukrainian independent researcher and interdisciplinary artist, currently living and working in Estonia. Her main tool is documentation which she performs-with text, photography, and video. She is one of the curators at eˉlektron, Tallinn. Heneliis Notton (b. 2001) is a writer, who currently works as a dramaturg in the performing arts centre Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn. She has been curating a performative bookshop Kausaal together with Bohdana since 2021. Her play “Emesis” won a prize in the playwriting competition by the Estonian Theatre Agency and other texts have been published in various cultural magazines. She’s interested in combining text and performing arts. At Futureless Festival they bring Kausaal #4, a writing experiment in collectivity and commoning. Join us on the spot in Stockholm or online at elektron.art for participation. We’d like to talk-write-with one another from where we all are.

K-Allado McDowell [US]
American writer, speaker and musician. Together with GPT-3*, they are the author of the books Pharmako-AI and Amor Cringe, and co-editors of The Atlas of Anomalous AI. Allado-McDowell also founded th... American writer, speaker and musician. Together with GPT-3*, they are the author of the books Pharmako-AI and Amor Cringe, and co-editors of The Atlas of Anomalous AI. Allado-McDowell also founded the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI. They are presenters, trainers and consultants to think tanks and institutions that seek to align their work with deeper traditions of human understanding. McDowell will be exhibiting their book Pharmaco-AI in the Sentient machines? show in Färgfabriken.

Hannoia (Hannah Stansvik) [SE]
Swedish painter who works with artificial intelligence, in a way that dissolves bodies and identities. By painting AI-generated images based on her own body, she takes apart and examines the construct... Swedish painter who works with artificial intelligence, in a way that dissolves bodies and identities. By painting AI-generated images based on her own body, she takes apart and examines the construction of a self and the (female) body. During the summer of 2021, she trained a neural network, a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), with the aim of generating images that she can use as originals for her new works. The neural network was trained using a dataset that consisted of a mix of her previous works and the photos of herself that she would normally use to paint from. This provided a new version of the body she usually depicts. “In my work with artificial intelligence, bodies and identities are dissolved. By painting AI generated images based on my own body I take apart and examine the construction of a self and the (female) body.”
www.hannoia.se/artificial-intelligence

Andrea Nordwall [SE]
is a senior lecturer in media technology with a focus on visual expression and teaches media technology, design and aesthetics at Blekinge Institute of Technology. They works as an artist in media and p... is a senior lecturer in media technology with a focus on visual expression and teaches media technology, design and aesthetics at Blekinge Institute of Technology. They works as an artist in media and participatory art and with the art group Interacting Arts, and they are the author of the manifesto “Participatory Culture”. For the Sentient Machines? exhibition they will present “Riksdagen (The Parliament).”

Ashwin Rajan [FI]
Author of Behavior Design Canvas, a design thinking framework he created to help teams apply behavioral science to their projects. He has founded a research lab and think tank called Fabric, which is ... Author of Behavior Design Canvas, a design thinking framework he created to help teams apply behavioral science to their projects. He has founded a research lab and think tank called Fabric, which is used by a wide range of clients. He believes that pattern recognition, synthesis and storytelling are at the heart of what he brings to this blend of art and technology. For the Sentient Machines? exhibition, Rajan will present an installation consisting of pairs of poems created by various human writers alongside poems generated by an artificial intelligence. It is up to the reader to figure out which are made by whom.

Bengt Sjölén [SE]
Swedish programmer and artist living in Berlin and Stockholm. He has exhibited his work in many European countries and is part of the Critical Engineering collective. He will present his work FakeDeep... Swedish programmer and artist living in Berlin and Stockholm. He has exhibited his work in many European countries and is part of the Critical Engineering collective. He will present his work FakeDeeper – Portrait of three critical engineers.
“FakeDeeper demonstrates this in a simple and direct way by allowing a visitor’s face to control the faces of three still images, causing them to move their mouths, pose and make facial expressions like the visitor does in front of the camera in real time. The live situation also allows for strange deformations and glitches and the ability to easily break the illusion in a way that a deliberate fake video production would naturally edit out, but then it also hints at artifacts that can reveal the fake while underscoring how much can be done easily with readily available code, machine learning models, and only still images and a webcam.”
https://21.piksel.no/tag/decoding-black-magic-interventions-in-infrastructure/

Paola Torres Nuñez del Prado [SE]
Is exploring the boundaries of the senses, examining the concepts of interpretation, translation and misrepresentation to reflect on mediated sensations and experiences, while questioning the cultural... Is exploring the boundaries of the senses, examining the concepts of interpretation, translation and misrepresentation to reflect on mediated sensations and experiences, while questioning the cultural hegemony of the history of technology and art. “In the 1960s, Peruvian poet Jorge Eduardo Eielson imagined a talking doll that consisted, among other things, of a magnetic tape that stored poetic texts that would allow it to “constantly recite the most beautiful poems that man has conceived.” With the support of Google’s Artists + Machine Intelligence program, I developed what I call AIELSON (a neologism that mixes “A.I.” with “Eielson”) Spoken-Word Poetry Generation System. It is relevant to point out that this album is not a deepfake (fictional audiovisual content created with machine learning tools), as it is not presented as if it were the work of the deceased poet, but as an artificial entity that emulates the poet’s voice as he recites.”
https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/58903/paola-torres-nunez-del-prado-artificial-intelligence-album-aielson

Jaime Lobato [EE]
Multimedia artist, composer, curator and researcher. He studied at the Faculty of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has had three solo exhibitions, at the Sound Experime... Multimedia artist, composer, curator and researcher. He studied at the Faculty of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has had three solo exhibitions, at the Sound Experimentation Space of the University Museum of Contemporary Museum of Art, at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, and his retrospective exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Xalapa, Mexico. His work is included in public and private collections. As a multimedia artist, he has participated in several collective exhibitions in several cities in Asia, Europe and America.
“Memories of oblivion” is a synthesis of an overlay of natural neural networks and artificial neural networks. Several people were asked to model from memory the face of the person they loved most in their life and the process was recorded with a three-dimensional sensor. The resulting three-dimensional objects were fed into a GAN (stylegan2) trained to recognise and produce faces. These abstractions blurred the memory of this artificial intelligence, causing it to forget its learned weights, generating a latent space of affection and tactile memory.”

Maite Cajaraville & Gisle Froysland [NO]
Maite Caraville is a media and video artist and AV performer whose creations have been exhibited in festivals and events such as the Sónar Festival of Advanced Music in Barcelona, Matadero Madrid and ...

Gisle Frøysland studied computer science, information science, TV production and arts in Bergen. Since the early 80s he has been working as a musician, VJ and visual artist. He is a founding member of... Maite Caraville is a media and video artist and AV performer whose creations have been exhibited in festivals and events such as the Sónar Festival of Advanced Music in Barcelona, Matadero Madrid and Art Futura in Madrid. Also the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, MACBA, MEIAC in Extremadura or the Art and Centre Pompidou in Málaga have displayed her videos and installations. Internationally her artwork has been displayed largely world wide, along EU, South America, Russia and Cameroon.She is curating together with Gisle Frøysland, the Piksel festival in Norway since 2014. Under the Piksel umbrella in collaboration with Gisle F. she has developed other programs, Piksel Kidz, the Piksel Fest Spill, Music Pavilion events.

Gisle Frøysland studied computer science, information science, TV production and arts in Bergen. Since the early 80s he has been working as a musician, VJ and visual artist. He is a founding member of BEK - the Bergen Centre for Electronic Art and initiator/director of the Piksel festival for free technologies in artistic practice. Gisle Frøysland has been the receiver of grants and has held numerous exhibitions, many of them in Norway but also abroad.

Karin Victorin & Sofia Priftis
Karin Victorin is a creative director, producer, and multi-disciplinary artist based in Stockholm. Her experience reaches from producing and writing scripts for Swedish television and Warner Bros, to ...

Sofia Priftis has been educated in spacial design in Konstfack, University of Arts Crafts and Design, architecture in KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and film in Stockholm University of the Arts sh...

They will present jointly Chimera Cyborgs, which are performative actions with fantasy monsters that are being developed in an art-lab through analog, and digital crafting. Chimera Cyborgs is a psyche... Karin Victorin is a creative director, producer, and multi-disciplinary artist based in Stockholm. Her experience reaches from producing and writing scripts for Swedish television and Warner Bros, to three years of being the executive and creative producer of Sweden International Horse Show (Friends Arena), along with creating my own art projects. Between 2006-2011, she was the creative director and founder of the legendary queer burlesque show Hootchy Kootchy Club at Södra Teatern. She has continued to explore new forms of theatre and performance art in the projects Drag as Art, Arise Amazons (Orionteatern 2017), and in my upcoming -art & technology experiment- Chimera Cyborgs.

Sofia Priftis has been educated in spacial design in Konstfack, University of Arts Crafts and Design, architecture in KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and film in Stockholm University of the Arts she has a broad range of tools. Her interests lay in poetic interruptions of everyday life, with works often driven by social questions about labor, freedom, and the human conditions. Priftis is using play as a method of investigating where our boundaries and desires meet each other.

They will present jointly Chimera Cyborgs, which are performative actions with fantasy monsters that are being developed in an art-lab through analog, and digital crafting. Chimera Cyborgs is a psychedelic art project that explores FR-technology, shapeshifting the borderland Between the Private and Public SELF.

[Picnic Performance and Participatory Workshop at Blivande extending to the surrounding environment]

KASSETTLUDDE [SE]
Based in the suburbs of Stockholm. There Kassettludde has been tinkering with old electronics, mostly cassette related, since a young age. The experimenting has gone through phases of just cutting and looping cassettes...

As of today in his early twenties he is studying at the Royal Institute of Technology. Specifically, he is studying Industrial Engineering and Sustainability...

Based in the suburbs of Stockholm. There Kassettludde has been tinkering with old electronics, mostly cassette related, since a young age. The experimenting has gone through phases of just cutting and looping cassettes, to producing his own music, to eventually actually DJ (or rather CJ). The creations and the process of creating are used as performance acts and art installations. The music in itself is heavily focused on dub-y loops made into something of a house and techno fashion. Often described as a kind of dirtier early French-house.

As of today in his early twenties he is studying at the Royal Institute of Technology. Specifically, he is studying Industrial Engineering and Sustainability, with a focus on the circularity and recycling of “waste”.

Inês Nêves (PT/EE).
is an artist, designer and performer based in Estonia and Portugal. Assuming drawing as the core of her practice, Inês approaches the act of making as an autoethnographic process...

Inês has a bachelor degree in Communication Design from the faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, in Portugal, and a master degree in Textile Art and Design from the Estonian Academy of Arts...

is an artist, designer and performer based in Estonia and Portugal. Assuming drawing as the core of her practice, Inês approaches the act of making as an autoethnographic process that investigates the relationship between visible/invisible, material/immaterial and self/others. Holding a background in communication design, dance and textile crafts, she recurs to these disciplines to expand her drawing practice towards a more corporeal and human dimension.

Inês has a bachelor degree in Communication Design from the faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, in Portugal, and a master degree in Textile Art and Design from the Estonian Academy of Arts, in Estonia. Additionally, Inês practiced classical ballet and contemporary dance since she was 3 years old. Inês has also done several courses in printmaking and contemporary art markets. Thus far she has exhibited, performed and participated in artistic residences in Portugal and Estonia.
Adopting a spirit of commoning, in parallel she has been co-organizing several artist-run spaces and events approaching them as organisms that generate community and as artistic matter, such as: co-running the student-run gallery Vent Space Project (Tallinn, Estonia), the open artist residency Mart’s Garage (Tallinn, Estonia), and managing and curating the project-space Mais Uno +1 (Lisbon, Portugal). She recently co-founded an art, research and curating collective based in Lisbon that focuses on the decentralization of the arts, collective processes and situated practices.