Aphra Tesla

The artist was born in Slovenj Gradec. After graduating as a painter, she presented her work as a multi-media artist in 2009 at the ExPonto festival with her original performance "Bye-Bye Daddy" ("Pa-pa ati"). In 2010 she obtained a master's degree in video and new media studies at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts. In 2011, she premiered her open-source "Project Aphra Tesla Operating System" at the SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference '11, Central European FENS Featured Meeting. As an inter-media artist, she has collaborated with other artists/collectives from various fields of art (Dave Darlington, Cameron Bobro, Marko Churntzchetz, Ema Kugler, Richard Heslop, Svetlana Makarovič, Sonda Foundation, Toni Soprano, Joži Šalej, Matjaž Latin, Ivan Peternelj etc.), as well as science (Ljubljana Neuroscience Department) and philosophy (Neven M. Agalma, Bojana Jovićević).