Operator

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Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti are an award-winning experiential artist duo who founded their collaborative art practice, known as Operator, in 2016. Referred to as ‘the two critical contemporary voices on digital art’s international stages’ (Clot Magazine) and ‘LGBT power couple’ (Flaunt), their expertises collide in large scale conceptual works recognizable for their 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. In fall 2021 the duo began a translation of themes from their Lumen Prize-winning work "I’d rather be in a dark silence than" into the Privacy Collection, a durational release of works exploring the tension between privacy and transparency in blockchain technology. Operator has been awarded The Lumen Prize (Immersive Environments), ADC Award (Gold Cube), S+T+ARTS Prize (Honorary Mention), and MediaFutures (a European Commission funded programme). They’ve spoken and appeared in BBC Click, Bloomberg ART+TECHNOLOGY, Christie’s Art+Tech Summit, SCAD Museum of Art, MIT Open Doc Lab, Ars Electronica, Art Basel, CADAF, MoCDA, Universität für angewandte Kunst (Vienna), Francisco Carolinum and ZKM. The duo are originally from Los Angeles and currently based in Berlin. operator.art