Katarina
Rankovic
Lecturer in Fine Art
School of Fine Art
biography
Katarina Ranković (b. 1994) is an artist working across performance, video and text to ask questions about selfhood and agency in the age of artificial intelligence.
Her practice-led PhD (Goldsmiths, 2022) explored the fluidity and variability of selfhood through a video performance series called 'The One Woman Empathy Circus'. Following in the tradition of artists who masquerade as others, often informed by popular culture and mass media, Ranković assumes different personas for camera by pursuing a state of deep empathy with the others that she temporarily inhabits.
Derived from her own everyday habit of code switching, the performance practice challenges the apparent singularity of the self, problematising essentialist intuitions and offering a pathway into thinking about the conditions for AI consciousness and agency in human beings, fictional characters, and other kinds of agents.
Research interests
artificial intelligence, performance, social media, popular culture, memetics, cultural memory, character, frame switching, agency, fictional character, personal diversity, social diversity, contextual person, distributed person, selfhood, identity, social agent, evolution, subject formation, authenticity, fiction, emergence, post-structuralism
PGR supervision interests
Performance, video, mimesis, popular culture, memes, artificial intelligence, subjectivity, online culture, social media, metafiction, drawing, memetics, cultural memory, code switching, authenticity, evolutionary theory, emergence, computational ontology, Victorian literature, feminism(s), visual cultures, postmodern literature, post-structuralism
Current PGR students
Sitian Zeng, "Painting as an Approach to Explore Immanent Subjectivity in the Digital Age"
