Artworks. Natalia Fuchs
My work sits at the intersection of art, technology, and the psychology of care. I work with how media, technology, machines reshape our perception, trust, and attention — and how artistic statement can become a tool for resilience.
Across my artistic practice, I explore the boundaries between the human and the algorithmic: where control ends, co-authorship begins, and a new ethics of relation emerges. When I use artificial intelligence, it becomes neither a tool nor a theme, but a full participant in dialogue.
I want the viewer not simply to watch, but to test their own thresholds of trust, bodily presence, and readiness to let go of control. That is why my works often exist at the edge of classic video art, audiovisual performance, and artistic research — as living systems that evolve with each new exhibition and create specific rhythm in my artistic and curatorial life.
For me, curatorial and artistic practice are inseparable. Both are about creating a space where art, technology, and care meet and work together.
Across my artistic practice, I explore the boundaries between the human and the algorithmic: where control ends, co-authorship begins, and a new ethics of relation emerges. When I use artificial intelligence, it becomes neither a tool nor a theme, but a full participant in dialogue.
I want the viewer not simply to watch, but to test their own thresholds of trust, bodily presence, and readiness to let go of control. That is why my works often exist at the edge of classic video art, audiovisual performance, and artistic research — as living systems that evolve with each new exhibition and create specific rhythm in my artistic and curatorial life.
For me, curatorial and artistic practice are inseparable. Both are about creating a space where art, technology, and care meet and work together.
2022
2019 - ongoing
Collaborators: Ilia Symphocat, Xenia Sangina, Nikita Prudnikov
AI music + graphic notation for live improvisation; nominated for Kuryokhin Award
2020 - ongoing
Collaborator: Albena Baeva
Interactive AV performance exploring trust in AI; exhibited at Goethe-Institut Sofia (2026)
2018
Video Artwork
2014
Collaborator: Sonia Cillari
AV performance exploring proximity and spatial ethics; in collaboration with Sonia Cillari (VIDA 13.0, Ars Electronica)
Video Artwork
Archeology of Everyday
In the 21st century, a journey along the long winding corridor of a communal apartment is a real archaeological expedition into the everyday life of the past.
Living together in a communal apartment transformed ordinary objects. A TV or radio was not only a source of information, but also a center of attraction for the inhabitants of the apartment. The kitchen played a similar role: cooking both separately, while maintaining their privacy, and together, especially on holidays. With one telephone for a large apartment, conversations became common. Dormitory norms were born in discussions. To consolidate them, the house book, which kept the history of relations, served. The communal apartment was a world of everyday things that changed not only life, but also the person himself.
The artistic collective of The Archeology of Everyday is Alexandra Puchkova and Natalia Fuchs. The video artwork was filmed as a special project of the Polytechnic Museum and “Artkommunalka” museum-residency in Kolomna for the exhibition “The Household”.
Living together in a communal apartment transformed ordinary objects. A TV or radio was not only a source of information, but also a center of attraction for the inhabitants of the apartment. The kitchen played a similar role: cooking both separately, while maintaining their privacy, and together, especially on holidays. With one telephone for a large apartment, conversations became common. Dormitory norms were born in discussions. To consolidate them, the house book, which kept the history of relations, served. The communal apartment was a world of everyday things that changed not only life, but also the person himself.
The artistic collective of The Archeology of Everyday is Alexandra Puchkova and Natalia Fuchs. The video artwork was filmed as a special project of the Polytechnic Museum and “Artkommunalka” museum-residency in Kolomna for the exhibition “The Household”.
Artistic research project
TRUST TERRITORIES
In the Trust Territories Albena Baeva and Natalia Fuchs explore topics of trauma, trust, and alternative futures through the lens of machines. It employs artificial intelligence to create instructions for artworks based on original instruction paintings and performances from the 1960s supplemented by other instructions carefully selected by the artists. Human control and manipulation were among the main themes explored in art at that time. Nowadays we experience a new loss of trust in authorities, traditional media, science and new surges of fear and anxiety. In the critical conditions of the pandemic, we had to partly give up control since our income, our communication with other humans, and our closest connections were dependent on the interaction with smart technologies only. Has a new collaborative state between machines and humans evolved? How trust in AI and machines, in general, became an important research area? Has our trust in machines and the digital space changed over time? Now is the right time to explore the borders of such new experiences with technology and our possible new trust in it. Trust Territories builds a proving ground where the spectator could beta test their level of trust towards the artificial intelligence.
Albena Baeva and Natalia Fuchs as an artistic collective research the history of instruction artworks from the past century and recent works in order to train a GPT-2 language model that creates new instructions and scores for artworks. With every new exhibition or performance, the project evolves and becomes a repository of stories of the relationship of trust between human and machine.
Trust Territories will premiere on June 10th, 2021, in Goethe-Institut Bulgaria in Sofia featuring Albena Baeva where she executes the instructions generated by the algorithm. Albena interprets selected instructions in the form of drawings, a mural, and augmented reality sculptures. The works result in the dialogue between artistic autonomy and machine intelligence, where giving up control over the outcome and the ability to trust technology are central themes.
Albena Baeva and Natalia Fuchs as an artistic collective research the history of instruction artworks from the past century and recent works in order to train a GPT-2 language model that creates new instructions and scores for artworks. With every new exhibition or performance, the project evolves and becomes a repository of stories of the relationship of trust between human and machine.
Trust Territories will premiere on June 10th, 2021, in Goethe-Institut Bulgaria in Sofia featuring Albena Baeva where she executes the instructions generated by the algorithm. Albena interprets selected instructions in the form of drawings, a mural, and augmented reality sculptures. The works result in the dialogue between artistic autonomy and machine intelligence, where giving up control over the outcome and the ability to trust technology are central themes.
Audio-Visual Performance
NOTATION_AI
An audiovisual performance presenting AI music based on the heritage of 20th century avant-garde composers, and adapted graphic notations for live improvisation by the musicians. Every representation of NOTATION_AI on stage is a creative experiment, from classical academic tradition to free jazz techniques, and the result of human interaction with technology
Video Artwork
Times Connection
Media archeological work exploring archive of the Metallurgical Plant. Created during art-residency by Natalia Fuchs in Vyksa.
Audio-Visual Performance
behaviours
An interactive, audiovisual, and body-oriented electronic art performance created in 2015 through a collaboration between Italian media artist Sonia Cillari and Russian curator/media artist Natalia Fuchs. The project evolved out of the "BEHAVIOURS Skin" workshop led by Sonia Cillari. It was hosted within the framework of the Polytech.Science.Art program at the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, curated by Natalia Fuchs.
It combines body data, media art, and live electronics to explore how physical presence, touch, and movement translate into real-time soundscapes and visual architecture.
It combines body data, media art, and live electronics to explore how physical presence, touch, and movement translate into real-time soundscapes and visual architecture.
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