Elisa Giardina Papa is an artist and scholar, Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.
EGP's research-based art practice seeks forms of knowledge and desire that have been lost or forgotten, disqualified, and rendered nonsensical by hegemonic demands for order and legibility. Working across Artificial intelligence-based projects, large-scale video installations, experimental films, and writing, she draws attention to those aspects of our lives that remain radically incomputable.
Her work has been exhibited at the 59th Biennale di Venezia (The Milk of Dreams), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA’s Modern Mondays), the Whitney Museum (Sunrise/Sunset Commission), Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, ICA and Frieze London, BFI London Film Festival, Vienna Secession, 6th Buenos Aires Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018, the Center for Contemporary Art Tashkent, Uzbekistan, M+ Hong Kong, among others.
Her latest art book, Leaking Subjects and Bounding Boxes: On Training AI (Sorry Press, 2022), documents the methods currently used to teach Artificial intelligence to capture, classify, and order the world and presents a collection of images that exceed computation. Forthcoming essays include the foreword for Informatics of Domination (Duke University Press, 2024).
EGP co-founded the artist collective Radha May. Alongside Indian artist Nupur Mathur and Ugandan artist Bathsheba Okwenje, they collaborate on performances and art installations that uncover hidden histories and marginalized sites, examining their intersections with gender, sexuality, and colonialism.
EGP holds a Ph.D. in Film and Media from the University of California, Berkeley, and has previously held positions at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and the Rhode Island School of Design.
