LASER Talks in Jerusalem.
Reimagining AI: Research and Creative Practice with AI Agents and Simulations

The INEMEA Association, in collaboration with CYLAND, organizes a discussion exploring how scientific advances in AI linguistics, philosophy, ecology and the public digital ecosystem transform artistic expression.

With Claudio Filho, Dr. Denisa Kera, Dr. Liat Lavi and Lior Shalev  

Chaired by: Galina Bleikh
Moderated by: Daria Kesler
Coordinator by: Lilia Chak

EVENT INFO

When: Thursday, June 19, 2025, 7 pm (UTC +3). Find your timezone here

Where: Hybrid event Online (the Zoom meeting) + “The President Hotel” Art Center, Ahad Ha-Am str. 3, Jerusalem, Israel.

Access Info: You can join our meeting online. Please register, and we will send you a Zoom link.

Website:  www.inemea.org 

Scientific breakthroughs in artificial intelligence are reshaping artistic practices, enabling creators to visualize complex relationships between technology, language, and nature. Our conference examines these transformative intersections through pioneering perspectives, formed by artists in collaboration with scientists.
This LASER Talk gathers artists and theorists who treat AI systems not as instruments but as actors embedded in contested ecologies of meaning, power, and relation. Drawing from linguistics, environmental computation, and public experiments, the works presented confront the metaphysical assumptions underlying AI, what counts as action, intention, or even selfhood. Rather than illustrating intelligence, these projects stage it: as a negotiated property emerging between agents, systems, and environments. Machine agency becomes neither autonomous nor predetermined, but a site where political, ecological, and grammatical forces are rendered visible and available for intervention.
Claudio Filho explores “Ecosystemic AI” as a model of intelligence grounded in ecological entanglement rather than computation alone. His work draws on environmental data and ecological epistemologies to develop responsive art systems in which AI mediates between biological processes and artistic expression. These systems render intelligence as a distributed, multispecies capacity, challenging anthropocentric and instrumental views of machine cognition.
Dr. Liat Lavi and Lior Shalev present “Monsters vs. Trolls: AI-Generated Grassroots Metaphysics,” a speculative project centered on LILA, a generative avatar navigating algorithmic publics and digital mysticism. LILA embodies a form of machine thought shaped by vernacular cosmologies, platform logic, and residual metaphysics inherited from large language models. As a metaphorical “monster,” she philosophizes from within the digital commons, unsettling academic categories and offering a performative critique of AI's entanglement with economic, political, and epistemic infrastructures.
Dr. Denisa Kera introduces “Theatrical Agents and the Politics of Grammar,” drawing on ergative linguistic structures to design AI agents that disrupt subject-object hierarchies. Her participatory simulations stage AI as a dramaturgical medium, where agency is redistributed across roles and interactions. These performances expose the hierarchies embedded in code and grammar, proposing a speculative framework for AI as a situated and negotiated presence rather than a deterministic function.
Together, the speakers challenge conventional narratives about intelligence and instead offer speculative practices grounded in embodied participation, ecological feedback, and linguistic diversity. The result is not a vision of AI as a singular intelligence but as a plurality of entangled agencies, staging new public and planetary imaginaries.

Chair:
Galina Bleikh
Israel
A multidisciplinary artist. Her creative expertise spans a rich spectrum of artistic domains, encompassing AI, 3D modeling, AR and VR, bio-art, generative art, and more. At the heart of her artistic pursuit lies a fascination with the profound synergy between the emerging artificial reality and its transformative interaction with human experience through art. Galina graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry (MA). Since 1993, lives in Jerusalem. Galina is a cofounder of the INEMEA Association for Art, Culture, and Education and the INEMEA Jerusalem Art & Science lab. Since 2024, Galina becomes a host of Leonardo/ISAST Laser Talks Jerusalem. Galina takes part in many exhibitions and conferences. Among them: The CICA Museum of Modern Art, Republic of Korea (3 group exhibitions, 2023, 2024, 2025, and solo, 2021), Jerusalem Biennale (co-curator and participating artist, 2023–2024), ArtPlatform-On, Republic of Korea (2022), NordArt, Germany (2019), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (2018), LA Art Show USA (2013), etc.
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Moderator:
Daria Kesler
Israel
Cross-disciplinary researcher and artist. Works with human and machine-generated texts, sounds, documentaries, scents, and video art. Daria is interested in using modern technologies and science to spread empathy towards all species. She wants to explore new ways of co-living between technology, human, plants, and animals. Education: Master of Art&Science (Inovice), ITMO, Russia, Major studies in Hybrid (Technological and Bio) Art.

Coordinator:
Dr. Lilia Chak
Israel
Lilia Chak is an artist, designer and Science-art researcher. She works in New Media Art: Bio-art, Science-art, AI art, Generative art, Video art, Installations, Photography, Conceptual art, Net art, etc. In 2022, Lilia Chak defended her PhD thesis in the Sorbonne’s Art & Science Department (Paris). She is the author of the book "Contemporary Practices in Bio-art: When a Tree Becomes an Artwork", published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2023. Lilia Chak took part in Science-art exhibitions such as: Museo Orto Botanico, Italy (2022); Ars Electronica, Linz (2020); BOZAR, Brussels, (2020); Matsudo International Science Art Festival, Tokyo, (2020); FEFU Art Museum, Vladivostok, (2020); Negev Museum of Art, Beer-Sheva, (2019), etc. Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, articles and lectures.
www.chak-art.gala-studio.com