Operator

Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti are an experiential artist duo who founded their collaborative art practice, Operator, in 2016. Referred to as “the two critical contemporary voices on digital art’s international stages” (Clot Magazine), their expertises collide in large scale conceptual works recognizable for their poetic approach to technology. Ti’s background as an immersive artist and HCI technologist, and Catherine’s as a choreographer and performance artist make for work bringing together environments, technology and the body. In fall 2021, the duo began a translation of their Lumen Prize-winning work »I’d rather be in a dark silence than« into the Privacy Collection, which explores the tension between privacy and transparency on the blockchain. 

Operator has been awarded a Lumen Prize,, ADC Award,, S+T+ARTS Prize (Honorary Mention), and MediaFutures. They’ve been speakers at Christie’s Art+Tech Summit, Art Basel, MIT Open Doc Lab, Bloomberg ART+TECHNOLOGY, Ars Electronica, and CADAF. The duo is from LA and currently based in Berlin.