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After Us

Ivona Tau

After Us

AI
Nature
Architecture
Meditative

Aerial views of forests, residential city streets, internal cellular structures, and the tension of raw muscles — all of these images blur together in Ivona Tau’s GAN AI video, After Us (After Nondescriptives), a 50-second perfect loop.

The abstracted forms at the work’s opening morph into branches and leaves before transforming into the glass and steel storefronts of city streets. It is in this trek through the uncanny valley that Tau finds her aesthetic, drawn from analogue photography. We watch the construction of landscapes dissolve and regenerate. The morphing animation shows a constant destruction of nature and infrastructure, signalling the simultaneous destruction of the natural world and the creation of the digital one.

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Ivona Tau

Poland

Ivona Tau is a digital artist from Vilnius. With a degree in mathematics from the University of Warsaw and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, she draws on 15 years of experience in professional photography and AI research to explore the frontiers of visual creation. Her work, at the intersection of experimental photography, motion painting, and generative art, aims to evoke universal emotions through AI tools, transforming her personal experiences into accessible memories. Inspired by figures such as Man Ray, David Lynch, and William Eggleston, she uses neural networks (GANs) and custom models to create works that oscillate between hyperrealism and surrealism, blending utopia and urban dystopia. Her approach, both technical and poetic, is based on the idea that AI allows us to see the world differently, beyond traditional conventions, while making these technologies more human and interactive. Her creative process revolves around memory, imagination, and interactivity. Tau revisits her photographic archives, exploring themes such as solitude in urban environments and the tranquil rhythm of nature. She also experiments with long-term generative art, inviting the viewer to become a co-creator. Her visual language, marked by futuristic and cyberpunk aesthetics and captivated by contrasts between the real and the surreal, is part of a quest for immersive worlds where art and technology interact.

Represented by MTArt Agency, Ivona Tau has exhibited at prestigious venues such as Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Art Basel Miami Beach, SCOPE, CAFA, as well as the ZMK Museum of Contemporary Art (Germany) and the Francisco Carolinum Linz (Austria). Her works have been acquired by private and public collections, and she received the top prize at the Digital Ars 2020 competition and the Computer Space Forum 2021. Active on crypto platforms (Foundation, Known Origin, Tezos), she ranks among the Top 10 Women in AI (2022) and the Top 10 Creators on Tezos.

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