Annka Kultys

Annka Kultys founded her eponymous gallery in London in 2015 with the explicit aim of supporting digital and new-media artists who work with emerging technologies. The 2021 show AI Portraiture: Us and Them was a survey that offered ‘commentary about how AI sees us and how we see AI’, according to Kultys. It featured practitioners as diverse as the somewhat gimmicky Ai-Da robot to the critically acclaimed avatar artist and curator LaTurbo Avedon. The show also tapped into AI’s playful, crowd-pleasing side with works like Thomas Webb’s You can’t afford it (2020), which fed images of the visitor into an algorithm that had allegedly been trained to decide how rich someone is based on their appearance.