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  • Livia Foldes

    Part-time Lecturer

    Email
    livia@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    Livia Foldes

    Profile

    Livia Foldes (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based cultural worker exploring the space between art, design, technology, and activism. Her work asks how and why machines are taught to understand and misunderstand our bodies and the identities they carry, and explores the radical potential simmering in the gaps. She engages these questions through artistic research, visual essays, workshops, events, software, and imagery created with emerging tools. She teaches courses on artificial intelligence, computational image making, and extended realities at Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons.

    Degrees Held

    MFA in Design & Technology, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, NY

    BFA in Graphic Design, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

    Recent Publications

    “Porn vs. Norm,” Data Fluencies (upcoming).

    “NSFW Venus: From colonial archives to machine learning datasets,” Unthinking Photography, July 15, 2024.

    “Be THERE Now,” Adjacent Issue 8: Disembodiment, October 19, 2021.

    Performances and Appearances

    Fall Speaker Series, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, November 12, 2024.

    NSFW Venus: On Classifying Bodies, from Colonial Archives to Machine Learning Datasets, Photography in Virtual Culture, The Photographers’ Gallery with University of Westminster, London, UK, May 14, 2024.

    Artist talk (with Decoding Stigma co-founder Gabriella Garcia), NEW INC DEMO Festival, New Museum, New York, NY, June 23, 2023.

    Research Interests

    gender, labor, intimacy, technology, media

    Awards And Honors

    NEW INC Future Memory cohort, New Museum, New York, NY, 2023.

    Grantee, C/Change Creative R&D Lab, Goethe-Institut San Francisco in cooperation with Gray Area, San Francisco, CA, 2022.

    Portfolio

    Art practice

    Design practice

    Past Courses

    CD Studio: Dig Product Design
    PSAM 2120, Fall 2025

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