International Women’s Day: Five Lumen artists shaping the cultural languages of technology
Across Lumen’s community, artists are using computational tools to expand how womanhood can be seen, remembered, and authored.
This editorial features five Lumen artists whose work approaches women’s lives from distinct perspectives: family memory and dementia, ageing and domestic labour, motherhood and poetic form, women’s secret languages, and the beauty standards encoded into contemporary image systems.
Artists featured in this piece: Ivona Tau
Ivona Tau
“A Life Passed By
(My Grandmother’s Memories)”
Ivona Tau’s ‘A Life Passed By’ sits within her wider project ‘My Grandmother’s Memories’, using AI to reconstruct the fragmented perception of memory loss through her grandmother’s experience with Alzheimer’s. Trained on 8mm films and Soviet-era negatives from Tau’s family archive, the work simulates a fading reality where faces shift and time loops, reflecting the way past and present became intertwined in her grandmother’s later years.
Tau’s project holds the intimacy of family history alongside the strange elasticity of generative image-making. The work becomes a meditation on identity, perception, and care, mapping how memory forms, fractures, and returns. It also opens a wider reflection on machine memory as a creative force: a system that produces speculative reconstructions shaped by the archive and by its own logic.