Helena Nikonole joins Artist & AI Residency 

Artist Helena Nikonole will participate in the Artist & AI Residency at the Center for Humans and Machines (CHM) from January to March 2026. Her work explores utopian visions of post-human futures and critical reflections on the dystopian present.

Helena Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator, researcher and educator based between Berlin and Istanbul. Her interests include AI, hacktivism, hybrid art and biosemiotics. She is co-founder of the Berlin-based collective 868labs, which develops tools for decentralised, network-independent communication. Her current research focuses on LLMs and political ideologies as part of her PhD at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. 

She also incorporates her research on large language models (LLMs) into her artistic work. This work was created as part of her ongoing research fellowship in the ‘Weltoffenes Berlin’ programme, which is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. 

Nikonole is currently participating in the Artist & AI Residency programme run by the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. This programme brings together modern art and scientific research and promotes exchange between the arts and science. 

Her exhibition POWER VECTORS – Ideology embeddings of LLMs will also be on display at the Art Laboratory Berlin from 22 January to 1 March. The opening reception will take place on 22 January at 8 p.m. 

On 25 January at 3 p.m., the artist will present her exhibition at the Art Laboratory Berlin in an artist scientist conversation with researcher Levin Brinkmann from the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Admission to this event is free of charge. 

 

More Information:  

• About the exhibition. 
• About the Artist & AI Residency Programme.   
• About the artist Helena Nikonoles.