Yasmine Boudiaf
Amphibian Populations of London
Representations of amphibian population data
Sculptures made of sugar and coated in resin emit light pulses corresponding to populations of amphibians recorded at different sites across London. The relative health of these populations is represented in the form, colour and pulse patterns of the sculptures.
Yasmine is a researcher and technologist focusing on AI, data, epistemology and the absurd. She was named as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ 2022 and is a fellow at the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Royal Society of Arts. She is a researcher at UAL’s Creative Computing Institute and has taught on university courses in the UK and Sweden. She has contributed to the The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest's 'Infrastructural Interactions', investigating public data infrastructures and to the Transmediale 2022 workshop 'Rendering Research'. Her artistic practice is a mix of performance, computation and writing. She has exhibited at CPDP 2021and at Secret Garden Party 2022. She is part of the art collective Punk[Art]Rave and organises with No Tech For Tyrants.
