Operator Salon at CADAF Paris {Guest List Announced}
Photography by Amanda Demme | Styling by Chino Castilla | Chic by Accident (Mexico City)
Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti's first installment of Operator Salon debuts at the Crypto and Digital Art Fair in Paris 17-23 June 2021.
The Operator Salon has been named as such, firstly as a conversation-focused appendage to the duo’s art house, Operator. And secondly, in order to pay homage to the queer couple Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas’ salons in the 1930s, which hosted the likes of Picasso and Hemingway. The salon will merge their expertise in art and technology with their love for conversation, culture and critical thinking. It will be a space to experience interesting, influential, creative minds flow together with a starting point and no desired end point.
Naturally Ania and Dejha’s ‘2.0 version’ has a slight departure from the original salons of the 1930s, due to the fact its first iteration is taking place digitally, as well as its topical focus on technology. Through curated conversations, the duo will explore technology’s both obvious and nuanced effects on culture, art, design, love, sex, politics, and life. The first iteration includes conversations on Digital Fashion, AI Art, as well as Art Infrastructures for Advanced Technologies.
DIGITAL FASHION
18 June 2021 1pm EST
Leanne Elliott-Young CEO & Co-Founder, Institute of Digital Fashion
Cattytay Creative Director & Co-Founder, Institute of Digital Fashion
Damara Inglês Director of extended reality and digital fashion experiences
Kerry Murphy Founder & CEO, The Fabricant
Scarlett Yang 3D Fashion Artist and Creative Technologist
Olga Chernysheva Chief Sustainability Officer, DressX
Ilana Magar, Digital Fashion Show Producer
ART INFRASTRUCTURES FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
19 June 2021 @ 1pm EST
Raina Mehler Director of Media Arts, Superblue
Todd Eckert CEO, Tin Drum
Anne-Laure Pingreoun Curator and Founder, Alter-Projects
Irini Papadimitriou Creative Director, FutureEverything
AI: QUESTIONS AND DILEMMAS FOR DIGITAL ART
22 June 2021 @ 1pm EST
Dr. Kate Crawford Artificial Intelligence Scholar & Author of Atlas of AI