Amanda Tkaczyk, artist headshot, 2024.
Amanda Tkaczyk, artist headshot, 2024.
My expressive abstract paintings and collages explore relationships, belonging, and chaos. Through colour, gesture, and juxtaposition, I examine interconnectedness and what shapes us. My paintings beg the audience: can you see at least one good thing here?
I often integrate digital art and new media (QR codes, phone lines, web, and AR/VR) to extend my explorations into interactive, satirical reflections on technology, care, and connection. By blending expressive art, spoof technologies, and audience participation, I question how authenticity, trust, and emotional labour are shifting in a world mediated by algorithms.
I am motivated to develop works that create a meaningful experience for the viewer and where possible advance the practice and scholarship of the field.
Group Prompt, the anonymous audience live co-created AI-generated performance is not just about the absurdity of AI. I was motivated to explore radical approaches to audience participation and agency that did not depend on majority rule or individual decision making, testing the boundaries of performer vulnerability to do a live speech shadowing performance, and creating an open score for technology-mediated performance for other artists to perform.
When writing Cyrano 2025: An Echoboborg Romance, I knew I wanted to re-imagine Cyrano within an age of AI. Aligned with my previous slam poetry background, I wrote the script as a series of three poems. In efforts to challenge traditional notions of casting, to create opportunities for people who otherwise might be involved in the arts due to barriers, and in the spirit of openness to spontaneity and chance, the main characters of the play were cast by random lottery.