Operator

Ania Catherine (b. 1990, USA) and Dejha Ti (b, 1985, USA) are an award-winning experiential artist duo who founded their collaborative practice, Operator, in 2016.

The duo has been called “the two critical contemporary voices on digital art’s international stages” by Clot Magazine, with their expertises colliding in large-scale conceptual works recognizable for their signature nuanced integration of technology. Ti’s background as an immersive artist and human-computer interaction technologist, and Catherine’s as a choreographer and performance artist make for a uniquely medium non-allegiant output, bringing together environments, technology and the body. Their exploration into privacy and extractive technologies began with their installation, On View (2019), and continues with the Privacy Collection, a durational release of works exploring the tension between privacy and transparency in blockchain technology. For their most recent work, Human Unreadable, the artists developed an on-chain generative choreography method.

Operator has been awarded two Lumen Prizes (Generative Art in 2023, Immersive Environments in 2021), ADC Gold Cube, S+T+ARTS Prize (Honorary Mention), and MediaFutures (EU Commission program). They’ve spoken and appeared in BBC Click, Bloomberg ART+TECHNOLOGY, Christie’s Art+Tech Summit, SCAD Museum of Art, Art Basel, MIT Open Doc Lab, HEK, University of Cambridge, Ars Electronica, ZKM, Universität für Angewandte Kunst (Vienna), Francisco Carolinum Museum. In MoMA’s 2023 Postcard Project, Operator was included as one of the first 15 artists to launch the project to the public. The duo are originally from LA and currently based in Madrid.