Experience

Operator

• Germany
• Fine Art
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Artist, HCI Technologist and Co-founder

  • Dec 2016 - Present

  Operator is the art house of award winning experiential artist duo Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti. Referred to as "the two critical contemporary voices on digital art’s international stages” (Clot Magazine) and "LGBT power couple" (Flaunt), Ti and Catherine are an award-winning experiential artist duo whose practice merges environments, technology, & performance art. Known for their signature poetic approach to technology, they've been featured on BBC Click, Bloomberg ART+TECHNOLOGY, Christie’s Art+Tech Summit, SXSW, as well as recognized by the Lumen Prize, S+T+ARTS Prize, and ADC Awards. Show less



Dejha Ti

• Greater Los Angeles Area

• Experiential Artist & HCI Technologist

  • Aug 2008 - Present

  Dejha Ti is award-winning Los Angeles-based artist whose practice spans fine art, nightlife, and commercial realms. TI is a conceptual artist with an extensive background in immersive art and human-computer interaction (HCI). She brings together environments, performance, and creative technology generating immersive experiences that draw audiences into her idiosyncratic world. Rooted in the understanding that immersion is not only a physical state, but also an emotional and psychological one, her work is defined by nuance within scale, producing a feeling instead of a spectacle. Dejha Ti has an ongoing collaborative practice with her wife Ania Catherine, and they are considered to be "the two critical contemporary voices on digital art’s international stages” (Clot Magazine) and focus on how art and technology can be harnessed to form new digital architectures. Their seminal mixed reality work, ‘On View,’ commissioned by the SCAD Museum of Art, won the 2020 ADC Awards for Experiential Design (Digital Experiences and Responsive Environments). The work examines the generational desire to be the subject of an art experience, and that phenomenon’s relationship to surveillance capitalism and data in modern society. While the work appears to be a non-digital environment, it relies on a ubiquitous network of technology, i.e., computer vision, facial recognition, kinetics, and environment-embedded sensors—a critical nod to the unethical misuse of pervasive computing and IoT. She's been commissioned by cultural institutions like A/D/O, SCAD Museum of Art, Trauma Bar und Kino, Art Basel Hong Kong; brands like Adidas and Ableton; and artists like Madame Gandhi, Amon Tobin and Robot Koch. She's been invited to speak internationally at Christie’s Art and Tech Summit (Hong Kong), The Future of Experiential Technology Symposium (UCSD), Mutek (Montreal), the Contemporary and Digital Art Fair (NYC & Miami), and Tech Open Air (Berlin). Show less