WHO WE ARE           OUR VISION           OUR MISSION           OUR ACTIVITY            OUR NEWS           OUR TEAM


 

WHO WE ARE

GalaStudio is an experimental Laboratory in the field of Art & Science, bringing together Israeli artists, scientists, thinkers and technologists.

Through interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building, GalaStudio encourages contributions to the cultural environment of Israel as well as international relations and contacts with the organizations sharing a similar mission.
Due to its historical features, Israel brings together artists and scientists – immigrants from different countries with a diverse cultural and creative background. The high-tech status of Israel calls for a cultural landscape that reflects this.

GalaStudio is a Platform that is an infrastructure and space for:

  • Visual art projects that explore and suggest the vision of the future of artificual reality
  • Events and Conferences to support the discussion
  • Creating a social hybrid network between humans and AI avatars
  • Collection of a Big Data

We create the conditions for acquiring the experience of mutual understanding, mutual adjustment, with an alien object (or person) that is not identical or similar to you.

 



 

OUR VISION

A wide variety of forms can be found in Contemporary art. Traditional painting (oil on canvas) coexists with New Media Art, Science-art, NFT-Art, etc. In metamodernism, one cultural model implies an infinite number of polar cultural manifestations.
Whenever something radically new emerges, it is always accompanied by a fear of the future. It is clear that new technologies are developing far faster than human consciousness, which is usually inert and full of fears of uncertainty.
However, the consciousness eventually "catches up" and absorbs what previously caused denial. Art history proves this.
We are sure that AI does not destroy art, but complements it extraordinarily.
By challenging the individual, it sets a precedent for the analysis of creativity as such and expands our understanding of ourselves.
We can say that we ourselves become, as it were, part of the Generative Adversarial Neural network (GAN), acquiring the opportunity for “deep learning”.

 



 

OUR MISSION

One of the crucial challenges facing the modern civilization is the question of where the scientific and technological progress is taking us. Are human beings capable of understanding the world that they themselves have created?

We are making our contribution to the process that will enable humanity to transition into the future by accepting it and overcoming the fear of artificial reality.

We believe that humanity can overcome the difficulties, provided that people learn to accept the new reality which they themselves have created.

The field of the artist's activity is a sphere of consciousness, and that consciousness is both private and public. By founding the relationship between the "living" and the "artificial" on the principles of mutual understanding and partnership, we will ensure a healthy future for humanity. As artists, we feel a responsibility for solving these tasks.




 

OUR ACTIVITY

  • On-line Internet Platform
  • Exhibitions in different formats
  • Off-line Art Platform (symposiums, conferences, camps, residences)
  • Department of Education (lectures, tutoring, popularization)
Research department (Bar-Ilan University, inter-university collaboration, interdisciplinary researches)

 



 

OUR NEWS

November 8–16, 2022

Galina Bleikh took part in “ArtPlatformOn” International network in Gwangju, South Korea.
The exhibition is followed by the ‘Art Bridge, Related to Earth Environment’ conference, featuring Yujin Lee (South Korea), Nataliya Kamenetskaya (Israel), Solongo Tseekhuu (Mongolia), Alexandra Dementieva (Belgium), and Galina Bleikh (Israel).

Exhibition: Art Intersection, the ArtPlatformOn Project 2022, Art & Environment=CROSSING

Exhibition: Miro Center and LeeLeeNAM Media Art Museum, Gwangju
Hosted by International Visual Culture Art Association
Curated by Noh Jungsuk, Supported by Gwangju Metropolitan City. Israeli artists curator: Natalya Kamenetsky.

November 9, 2022

Conference: Art Bridge, Related to Earth Environment, Miro Center, Gwangju.


LeeLeeNAM Media Art Museum, Gwangju. Conference "Art Bridge, Related to Earth Environment", Miro Center, Gwangju.

 

October 24–30, 2022

Lilia Chak took part in "Our Bio-Tech Planet" group exhibition, Museo Orto Botanico, Rome, Italy, organised by Art & Science Node Berlin. Curators: Prof. J. Hofman, Dr. J. Wallace, Dr. L. Bruno.
With Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer, Sanja Andelkovic, Ismaele Bonomi, Neo Christopher Chung, Tuana Inhan, Rob Kesseler, Yujue Liang, Maisha Maene, Miyuki Oka, Monika Polak, Felicitas Rohden, Eric Schockmel, Riaan van der Wart & Morten Risberg, Funda Zeynep Aygler.


Lilia Chak at the "Our Bio-Tech Planet" exhibition. Lilia Chak with artists Anna Dumitriu, Alex May and Felicitas Rohden.

September 12–17, 2022

Lilia Chak took part in FEMeeting. Women in Art, Science and Technology. International conference, organised by Cultivamos Cultura in collaboration with Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon and Évora, Portugal.
Theme of the report: “b A(I) b y l o n (artificial – intelligence – project)”. Curator: Marta de Menezes.

Catalogue (in English): “FEMeeting: women in Art, Science and Technology 2022”. Book of abstracts, page 17.

Lilia Chak at The FEMeeting "Women in Art, Science and Technology". Lilia Chak at The FEMeeting with the curator and artist Marta de Menezes.

 

September 13–17, 2022

Lilia Chak took part in MANOFIM, The International conference, organised by Jerusalem Contemporary Art Festival,
With MindLab – Jens Hauser, Dar Moussafir, Carmel Barnea BreznerJonas, Jonatan Omer Mizrahi, Tzaphira Allison Stern, Ivor Stodolsky, Marina Naprushkina, Dmitry Vilensky. 
Theme of the report: “Art, Biology and Ecology”.


Lilia Chak at The "MANOFIM" talks with Yonatan Amir and Jonatan Omer Mizrahi.  

 

January, 2022

In 2022, Lilia Chak defended her PhD thesis "Bio-art: When a Tree Becomes an Artwork. Contemporary Practices" in Sorbonne, Art & Science Department, Paris, France (under the direction of Prof. Olga Kisseleva). She explores the intersections of art and biology and proves that new biological technologies can be used as a new medium for art. Lilia Chak introduced into the international lexicon a new term – Dendro-art as a new subdivision of Bio-art.


Lilia Chak,. "Bio-art: When a Tree Becomes an Artwork. Contemporary Practices" book.  

 

November, 2021

Galina Bleikh & Elena Serebryakova took part in NFT ART Exhibition at FIRST BLOCKCHAIN EVENT IN THE ‘‘WORD EXPO’’ HISTORY, Dubai. Curator: Anna Swiss.
The .png image 1 px in size with the color #4be5ff is our (Galina Bleikh & Elena Serebryakova) unique NFT artwork which defines the code of the NEW GOLD. We proclaim #4be5ff as the symbol of the new crypto-age. In the previous epoch, gold served as the representation of the projection of the emanation of light into the material world. In our age of network culture, the light of this emanation is being moved into it in the form of computer codes. The authors consider 1 px #4be5ff as the Malevich's Black Square of the digital civilization. See: Foundation.app/HNN_Art


FIRST BLOCKCHAIN EVENT IN THE ‘‘WORD EXPO’’ HISTORY, Dubai. Conference: FIRST BLOCKCHAIN EVENT IN THE ‘‘WORD EXPO’’ HISTORY, Dubai.

November, 30, 2021

Galina Bleikh took part in ArtPlatform ON zoom conference "Relationship between Letter Aesthetic and Cultural Identity", South Korea.
Theme of the report: "Matrix of Creation".

 

October, 2021

Since 2021, Lilia Chak is a lecturer at practical and theoretical "Art, Biology and Ecology" course at SHENKAR. Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Multidisciplinary Art School, Tel Aviv, Israel.


Lilia Chak and Maya Attoun at their course final exhibition.  

 

June, 2020

Galina Bleikh & Elena Serebryakova Solo Exhibition and NMAC in CICA Museum, South Korea.

Solo Exhibition:
SIMULACRO-CENTRIC WORLD. CICA Museum of Modern Art, South Korea:
Exibitors
NMAC (New Media Art Conference 2021):
Conference Presenters

Galina Bleikh & Elena Serebryakova Solo Exhibition in CICA Museum, South Korea.  

 

December 23, 2020

Galina Bleikh's Zoom Lecture "Simulacro-Centric World
Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv (in Hebrew).


 

OUR TEAM

We have a professional team of interdisciplinary specialists. Currently, the project involves people working in various fields of science and art, such as artists, musicians and sound programmers, research scientists in the field of neurobiology, psychology, sociology, artificial intelligence, communications specialists, researchers in the field of Contemporary art, tech engineers and more.

 

The Founders

GALINA BLEIKH, artist
http://bleikh.art
http://hnn-art.com

Galina works in New Media Art: Digital art concepts, 3d, AR and VR, Bio-art, Video art, Web-art, Generative art, etc. She is interested in how the new technological reality can interact with us through art.
Galina’s creative activity also includes mutual project with Elena Serebryakova (since 2011). The duo of artists developed the concept of “The Simulacro-Centric World” based on their own creative method, which they called “The Hybrid Neural Network Art” (HNN Art).
Galina graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry (MA). Since 1993, Galina Bleikh lives in Jerusalem.
As a New Media artist Galina takes part in many solo and group exhibitions and Contemporary art conferences all over the world. Among them: ArtPlatform On, South Korea (2022), The CICA Museum of Modern Art, South Korea (2021), KZ gallery for VR, Russia, (1920), NordArt, Germany (2019), Xposed Gallery, New-York (2019), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (2018), Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (2018), LA Art Show USA (2013), Artco France Gallery, Paris, France (2012), Art Asia Miami, USA (2011), etc.

 

LILIA CHAK, artist, designer and Science-art researcher
https://chak-art.gala-studio.com



Lilia Chak works in New Media Art: Bio-art, Science-art, AI art, Digital art, Video art, Installation, Photography, Conceptual art, Net art, etc. In 2022, she defended her PhD thesis "Bio-art: When a Tree Becomes an Artwork. Contemporary Practices" in Sorbonne, Art & Science Department, Paris, France. She explores the intersections of art and biology and proves that new biological technologies can be used as a new medium for art. Lilia Chak introduced into the international lexicon a new term – Dendro-art as a new subdivision of Bio-art. She participates in Sorbonne project EDEN. The EDEN project is aimed at creating a new Garden of Eden as the ultimate goal of introducing innovative technologies to art and using unorthodox thinking to solve ecological problems.

Lilia Chak took part in Science-art exhibitions such as: Museo Orto Botanico, Italy (2022); Ars Electronica, Linz (2020); BOZAR, Brussels, (2020); Matsudo International Science Art Festival, Tokyo, (2020); FEFU Art Museum, Vladivostok, (2020); Negev Museum of Art, Beer-Sheva, (2019), etc. Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, articles and lectures.
Since 2021, she teaches her experimental practical and theoretical "Art, Biology and Ecology" course at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art (Tel Aviv, Israel).

ELENA SEREBRYAKOVA, artist, psychologist
http://hnn-art.com

Elena’s interests include an interdisciplinary research in Internet technologies as a communicative resource in which she combines the point of view of an artist and a psychologist. Participant of many art exhibitions all over the world.

Elena graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry (MA), and from The Institute of Innovative Psychotechnologies (IIP).
Her creative activity also includes mutual project “The Simulacro-Centric World” with Galina Bleikh.
Elena takes part in many solo and group exhibitions all over the world. Among them: The CICA Museum of Modern Art, South Korea (2021), KZ gallery for VR, Russia, (1920), NordArt, Germany (2019), Xposed Gallery, New-York (2019), Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (2018), LA Art Show USA (2013), Artco France Gallery, Paris, France (2012), Art Asia Miami, USA (2011), etc.






                  

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