Agnieszka Kurant x Artwrld x Rhizome
Agnieszka Kurant’s conceptual practice investigates collective and nonhuman intelligences, the future of labor and creativity, and forms of exploitation embedded in digital capitalism. Her work examines how forms such as termite mounds, tools, languages, and social movements emerge through collective agency. In the complex systems she creates, molecules, bacteria, animals, AI algorithms, and human crowds interact to generate unstable, hybrid forms in constant transformation, like living organisms.
Her projects draw on automation, cybernetics, and the processes of networked value creation in the digital economy and address the global labor extraction underlying artificial intelligence. Grown or shaped at the molecular level, her works oscillate between biological and digital, natural and artificial, life and nonlife.
About Rhizome
Rhizome champions internet art and culture through commissions, exhibition, and digital preservation, online at rhizome.org and in partnership with its longtime affiliate and host, the New Museum in New York City.
Founded in 1996 by artist Mark Tribe as an intimate email list connecting some of the first artists to work on the web and now—more than twenty years later—a thriving nonprofit with robust, multi-tiered programming, Rhizome has played an integral role in the history, definition, and growth of art engaged with the internet.
About Artwrld
Artwrld is a social discovery app that makes the art world more welcoming, accessible and easier to explore. Now live in NYC and LA. More at: artwrld.com