Karina Smigla-Bobinski

AUGUST 7 Tin Building

Daydream Air becomes art

ADA a self-forming, visitor-activated artwork

Named after Ada Lovelace — the 19th-century mathematician credited with writing the first computer program and envisioning a machine capable of generating art — ADA is a self-forming, visitor-activated artwork. A helium-filled PVC sphere, transparent and membrane-like, floats freely in the space. Its surface is spiked with charcoal sticks that leave marks on the walls, ceiling, and floor as the globe moves.

Set in motion by visitors, it generates an open-source composition of lines and points — incalculable in their intensity, unpredictable in their expression. Like a computer producing unforeseen output from a given command, ADA transforms movement into drawing. The result is unmistakably human: the only method for decoding its marks is association — the same logic the brain follows when it dreams.

Bio

Karina Smigla-Bobinski is an open-media artist who works with analog and digital media in the field of proprioceptive art. Her themes move between science, intuition, expression, and cognition.

She creates and collaborates on projects ranging from painting, kinetic sculptures, interactive installations, art interventions, mixed reality objects, multimedia physical theater performances, and online projects. Her works have been shown in 53 countries on 6 continents at festivals, and in galleries and museums including the New Taipei City Art Museum in Taiwan, Chroniques Biennale in Aix-en-Provence, France, Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai, China, Mattress Factory – Museum of Contemporary Art / Pittsburgh as well as collaborative performances worldwide including at the Festival Montpellier, France, Grand Théâtre, Luxembourg, GoDown Art Center Nairobi, Kenya, and Biennale di Venezia – Arsenale, to name but a few.