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Amanda Tkaczyk
Amanda Tkaczyk
I'm an emerging interdisciplinary artist that combines bold expressive abstract acrylic paintings, web interactives, accessible & rhythmic poetry, and video performance art to explore themes of loss, belonging, grief, and spontaneity.
In addition to my lived experiences, my practice is informed by my academic and professional experiences in psychology and artificial intelligence (Master’s in AI, Queen’s, 2021). In 2022 as a Professor of Applied Computer Science & IT, I won a teaching award for my innovative approach to assessment for my use of co-creation in the classroom dismantling the traditional power hierarchy and engaging students meaningfully in assessment. Co-creation is a key principle in my design work. I’m excited to continue to bring AI and technology infused art to community settings. I am also an Expressive Arts Practitioner (Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association) with a focus in black wellness.
Some previous exhibitions and performances include Third Shift Contemporary Arts Festival (Saint John, New Brunswick), Hillside Festival (Guelph, ON), Grimbsy Public Art Gallery, Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Hamilton Fringe Festival, and Nelson Gallery (Georgetown, ON).
What happens when we curate a space for anonymous co-creation and AI?
Group Prompt: an experimental real-time audience co-created AI-generated threatre. Website: www.groupprompt.com Premiered at the Hamilton Fringe Festival - July 2025
Group Prompt: an experimental real-time audience co-created AI-generated threatre. Website: www.groupprompt.com Premiered at the Hamilton Fringe Festival - July 2025
How will AI influence our romantic relationships?
Cyrano 2025: An Echboborg Romance is a slam poetry reimagining of Cyrano de Bergerac exploring how artificial intelliegence mediates love and connection. Click here for more information. Official juried selection for the 10 Minute Play Competition. Premieres at the Grand River Arts Festival - September 20th, 2025.
Cyrano 2025: An Echboborg Romance is a slam poetry reimagining of Cyrano de Bergerac exploring how artificial intelliegence mediates love and connection. Click here for more information. Official juried selection for the 10 Minute Play Competition. Premieres at the Grand River Arts Festival - September 20th, 2025.
How does AI influence our sensemaking?
Synthetic Ubiquity: video performance art exploring pervasive AI and our everyday lives. Official juried selection for the 2025 Third Shift St. John Contemporary Public Arts Festival.
Synthetic Ubiquity: video performance art exploring pervasive AI and our everyday lives. Official juried selection for the 2025 Third Shift St. John Contemporary Public Arts Festival.
How does AI disrupt our meaning-making?
Scan For Meaning: an experimental "AI-enabled" short film. Screening details to be announced.
Scan For Meaning: an experimental "AI-enabled" short film. Screening details to be announced.
How do we seek emotional validation from AI?
Algorithmic Validation: a series of interactive art projects inviting the audience to explore the infinite validation that AI offers. Two pieces selected for the Cambridge Centre for the Arts 2024 Juried Arts Show.
Algorithmic Validation: a series of interactive art projects inviting the audience to explore the infinite validation that AI offers. Two pieces selected for the Cambridge Centre for the Arts 2024 Juried Arts Show.
How could privacy-enhanced approaches to AI make the world a better place?
30 Days of Federated Learning Code: sponsored by OpenMined. A series of social media posts with custom illustrations about advanced technology, often with connection to social good.
30 Days of Federated Learning Code: sponsored by OpenMined. A series of social media posts with custom illustrations about advanced technology, often with connection to social good.
How do we navigate pain?
Treasured Moment: video performance art project. Nominee for Best Experimental Short Film - Summer 2025 - Alternative Film Festival. Screening details to be announced.
Treasured Moment: video performance art project. Nominee for Best Experimental Short Film - Summer 2025 - Alternative Film Festival. Screening details to be announced.
How do reconcile the multiplicities of truth while honouring ourselves?
True Say - A series of digital collages. Caribbean beliefs, lessons, and wisdom shared through sayings, popular quotes, and proverbs are presented with pairs of flowers and so-called “weeds.” Each collage creates a visual and emotional contrast: contradicting statements with contradicting plants.
True Say - A series of digital collages. Caribbean beliefs, lessons, and wisdom shared through sayings, popular quotes, and proverbs are presented with pairs of flowers and so-called “weeds.” Each collage creates a visual and emotional contrast: contradicting statements with contradicting plants.
How do we return to arts after trauma?
How do we maximize meaningful co-creation in creative projects?
Troublemakers ABC: a film co-created with a group of strangers who came together under tight time constraints to develop characters, scripts, scenes in a space rooted in co-creation. Premiered May 2025 at Revue Cinemas with the 48 Hour Film Project Toronto.
Troublemakers ABC: a film co-created with a group of strangers who came together under tight time constraints to develop characters, scripts, scenes in a space rooted in co-creation. Premiered May 2025 at Revue Cinemas with the 48 Hour Film Project Toronto.
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