Lyra Robinson

Lyra Robinson (b. 2002) is a transmedia artist whose work spans performance, installation, and video, building live and interactive works that confront how AI systems label and homogenise people, inviting audiences to push back through misclassification and public rule-writing. Informed by Critical Posthumanism and Cyborg theory, her practice investigates how corporeality, data, and visuality are entangled in contemporary visual infrastructures and platforms, interrogating the multiplicities of power, sex, and sexuality enfolded into emergent human-machine ecologies. She works primarily with experimental machine vision and deep learning processes, analysing the material and textural qualities of generative models built from mass data extraction — seeking to expose which parts of the models don't work, and what the data doesn't show. She is committed to creating live and real-time generated works wherever possible, including the large-scale installation AI Artificial Sky, in which audiences were deliberately left with nothing but grey clouds, refusing the satisfaction of a resolved image.