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Ilze Briede
Ilze Briede (artist name Kavi) is a Latvian/Canadian artist and researcher. Her process-based art practice, a hybrid of video, image and object making, challenges and plays with physical and digital materiality. Kavi is interested in the space between sensing, perceiving and knowing and the phenomena of knowledge building in new, unusual ways. Her current Ph.D. research at York University, Toronto, Canada, intersects art and science disciplines, focusing on bio-physiological sensing and live data art. Through experiencing our physical bodies as living data sculptures, Kavi hopes to shift the human-centric perspective towards a collaborative and expressive space shared with other and non-human entities such as algorithms, machines and nature. Kavi has affiliations with several research labs at York University, such as n-D::StudioLab (led by Prof. Mark-David Hosale), the Sympoietic Living Ontologies lab (SLOlab) (led by Prof. Jane Tingley), The Alice Lab for computational worldmaking (led by Prof. Graham Wakefield) and Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology (directed by Prof. Joel Ong). She has previously shown her work at Currents New Media Festival, International Festival of Digital Culture + Code, IASPM Canada Conference, FACTT Trans-disciplinary & Trans-National Festival of Art & Science, SloMoCo, Fashion Art Toronto and Toronto Nuit Blanche. Kavi also holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in digital media from Arts University Bournemouth in England.
Contact: York University, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada.