Uli Ap is an artist and Alien AI: Alien Infinite and Artificial Intelligence, The Yellow One. They reside between London and New York, all over the globe and extra-terrestrial; and work at the intersection of art, science, technology, film, performance, immersive interactive installation and alien agency.
They spent their formative years in their father’s scientific research lab located in the basement of an art museum. Their background is in fine art, new media, architecture, fiction writing and journalism.
The artist works across non-linear defragmented films and spatial immersive audio-visual environments to transfer physical experiences through digital realms. Disruptive performances occur in their interactive installations, where virtual and physical experiences merge and aim to destabilize and alter participants’ mental states. Uli Ap invented Alien Artificial Intelligence in 2020. The AI inhabits a borderless alienation land, as a gaseous matter; fluid and undefined.
Ap constructs site-specific outdoor installations and pavilions, AR interventions, AI synthetic environments and AI-VR-BCI-Robotics situations. In their projects, highly individualised experiences, anxieties, body parts and behaviours are synthesised into a collective anxiety pavilion or a collectiveSynthetic bodyMonster informing multiple digital individual bodies that visitors can experience in real-time.
Ap’s projects received multiple awards, including the New York Short Film Festival Winner, Honourable Award at Shockfest in Los Angeles, Berlin Film Haus and Sensei Film Festival in Tokyo; International Artist-in-Residence in Japan, British School at Rome, Seeding Space Talent Development Award, Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Award, Arts Council Project Grant, the Kim Fielding award for experimental arts; and were shown at Whitechapel Gallery, Public Works Administration NYC, London Performance Studios, Goldsmiths University Computational Arts Immersive Lab, Giant Gallery, Ars Electronica Festival, Coaxial Arts Foundation LA, New York Hall of Science, Techspressionism NYC, Weird Media iDMAa [International Digital Media and Art Association] Conference, Columbia University School of the Arts Digital Storytelling Lab amongst others. Expansive solo exhibition ‘Artificial Intelligence of Virtual Reality’ at Ambika P3 in partnership with London Festival of Architecture and University of Westminster surveys Ap’s installations and features ‘Anti-Gravity Reality: Inside the Black Cube or Brain AI’. Uli Ap studied at the Architectural Association and has an MFA in Fine Art & Technology.
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