WHO WE ARE

GalaStudio is an experimental laboratory in the field of Art & Science, bringing together Israeli artists, scientists and technologists.

Through interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building, GalaStudio encourages contributions to the cultural environment of Israel as well as international relations and contacts with the organizations sharing a similar mission.
Due to its historical features, Israel brings together artists and scientists – immigrants from different countries with a diverse cultural and creative background. The high-tech status of Israel calls for a cultural landscape that reflects this.

GalaStudio is a Platform that is an infrastructure and space for :

• Visual art projects that explore and suggest their vision of the future of AI
• Events and Conferences to support the discussion
• Creating a social hybrid network between humans and AI avatars
• Collection of a Big Data

We create the conditions for acquiring the experience of mutual understanding, mutual adjustment, with an alien object (or person) that is not identical or similar to you .

We create the conditions for acquiring the experience of mutual understanding, mutual adjustment, with an alien object (or person) that is not identical or similar to you .

OUR VISION

A wide variety of forms can be found in contemporary art. Traditional painting (oil on canvas) coexists with New Media Art, Science-art, NFT-Art, etc. In metamodernism, one cultural model implies an infinite number of polar cultural manifestations.
Whenever something radically new emerges, it is always accompanied by a fear of the future. It is clear that new technologies are developing far faster than human consciousness, which is usually inert and full of fears of uncertainty.
However, the consciousness eventually "catches up" and absorbs what previously caused denial. Art history proves this.
We are sure that AI does not destroy art, but complements it extraordinarily.
By challenging the individual, it sets a precedent for the analysis of creativity as such and expands our understanding of ourselves.
We can say that we ourselves become, as it were, part of the Generative Adversarial Neural network (GAN), acquiring the opportunity for “deep learning”.

OUR MISSION

One of the crucial challenges facing the modern civilization is the question of where the scientific and technological progress is taking us. Are human beings capable of understanding the world that they themselves have created?

We are making our contribution to the process that will enable humanity to transition into the future by accepting it and overcoming the fear of artificial reality.

We believe that humanity can overcome the difficulties, provided that people learn to accept the new reality which they themselves have created.

The field of the artist's activity is a sphere of consciousness, and that consciousness is both private and public. By founding the relationship between the "living" and the "artificial" on the principles of mutual understanding and partnership, we will ensure a healthy future for humanity. As artists, we feel a responsibility for solving these tasks.

OUR ACTIVITY

• On-line Internet Platform
• Exhibitions in different formats
• Off-line Art Platform (symposiums, conferences, camps, residences)
• Department of Education (lectures, tutoring, popularization)

OUR TEAM

We have a professional team of interdisciplinary specialists. Currently, the project involves people working in various fields of science and art, such as artists, musicians and sound programmers, research scientists in the field of neurobiology, psychology, sociology, Artificial Intelligence, communications specialists, researchers in the field of contemporary art, tech engineers and more.

FOUNDERS

Galina Bleikh, artist
http://bleikh.art
http://hnn-art.com

Galina works in New Media Art: digital art concepts, 3d, AR and VR, Bio-art, video art, web-art, generative art, etc. She is interested in how the new technological reality can interact with us through art.
Galina’s creative activity also includes mutual project with Elena Serebryakova (since 2011). The duo of artists developed the concept of “The Simulacro-Centric World” based on their own creative method, which they called “The Hybrid Neural Network Art” (HNN Art).
Galina graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry (MA). Since 1993, Galina Bleikh lives in Jerusalem.
As a New Media artist Galina takes part in many solo and group exhibitions and contemporary art conferences all over the world. Among them: ArtPlatform On, South Korea (2022), The CICA Museum of Modern Art, South Korea (2021), KZ gallery for VR, Russia, (1920), NordArt, Germany (2019), Xposed Gallery, New-York (2019), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (2018), Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (2018), LA Art Show USA (2013), Artco France Gallery, Paris, France (2012), Art Asia Miami, USA (2011), etc.

Lilia Chak, artist, designer and Science-art researcher
https://chak-art.gala-studio.com

Lilia Chak works in New Media Art: Bio-art, Science-art, AI art, Digital art, Video art, Installation, Photography, Conceptual art, Net art, etc. In 2022, she defended her PhD thesis "Bio-art: When a Tree Becomes an Artwork. Contemporary Practices" in Sorbonne, Art & Science Department, Paris, France. She explores the intersections of art and biology and proves that new biological technologies can be used as a new medium for art. Lilia Chak introduced into the international lexicon a new term – Dendro-art as a new subdivision of Bio-art. She participates in Sorbonne project EDEN. The EDEN project is aimed at creating a new Garden of Eden as the ultimate goal of introducing innovative technologies to art and using unorthodox thinking to solve ecological problems.

Lilia Chak took part in Science-art exhibitions such as: Museo Orto Botanico, Italy (2022); Ars Electronica, Linz (2020); BOZAR, Brussels, (2020); Matsudo International Science Art Festival, Tokyo, (2020); FEFU Art Museum, Vladivostok, (2020); Negev Museum of Art, Beer-Sheva, (2019), etc. Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, articles and lectures.
Since 2021, she teaches her experimental practical and theoretical "Art, Biology and Ecology" course at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art (Tel Aviv, Israel).

Elena Serebryakova, artist, psychologist
http://hnn-art.com

Elena’s interests include an interdisciplinary research in Internet technologies as a communicative resource in which she combines the point of view of an artist and a psychologist. Participant of many art exhibitions all over the world.

Elena graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry (MA), and from The Institute of Innovative Psychotechnologies (IIP).
Her creative activity also includes mutual project “The Simulacro-Centric World” with Galina Bleikh.
Elena takes part in many solo and group exhibitions all over the world. Among them: The CICA Museum of Modern Art, South Korea (2021), KZ gallery for VR, Russia, (1920), NordArt, Germany (2019), Xposed Gallery, New-York (2019), Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (2018), LA Art Show USA (2013), Artco France Gallery, Paris, France (2012), Art Asia Miami, USA (2011), etc.