Eva Prada Rodriguez

Born in Madrid in 1982, Eva Prada Rodriguez is a visual artist working with both digital and traditional mediums. Eva has resided in the UK since 2017. She studied at the Escuela de Arte 10 in Madrid, specializing in graphic design, digital illustration, 3D, and animation. With over 15 years of experience creating digital art for industries such as video games and technology, her focus has evolved in response to the rapid advances in artificial intelligence. This shift has led her back to oil painting, where she seeks to capture the historical moment in which humanity stands at a crucial turning point. In this scenario, humans are playing god, creating new intelligences and accelerating our inevitable advance toward a radically transformative and unknown future.

Artistic Statement: Figures and Futures

Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Humanity: Technology Supercycle

Currently, Eva Prada is working on her series titled "Technology Supercycle", where she explores the uncertainties and questions raised by artificial intelligence. As AI reshapes the art world, how artificial intelligence is changing the art world is a topic of growing interest. Eva Prada is intrigued by the uncertainties surrounding AI. The debate on whether AI art is the future, reflects the critical questions her work explores along with the passivity with which we embrace these technologies, unsure whether they will lead us to salvation or doom. Her work delves into essential themes of contemporary technological art, a field that questions the relationship between humanity and technology. From romanticized portrayals as a nod to the falsity and pretentiousness of these early AI-generated artistic endeavors to figurative representations of complex new concepts such AGI's or **Artificial General Intelligence **, always juxtaposed against the vulnerability and fragility of the human form as a commentary on the impact of modern technology on human relationships and societal structures.

Her work in progress series called "Technology Supercycle" where she seeks to capture the historical moment in which humanity stands at a crucial turning point. In this scenario, humans are playing god, creating new intelligences and accelerating our inevitable advance toward a radically transformative and unknown future.

Through a blend of figurative techniques and contemporary themes, Eva Prada seeks to provoke thought and discussio, challenging the boundaries between the classical and the futuristic.