1. November 2025 - 31. December 2025
Project ATOL: Ljubljana, Slovenia
About the artist
Tamara Kametani is an Athens based, Slovak visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans moving image, installation, sculpture, as well as web-based works. Using found digital material, online mapping apps, satellite imagery, and geolocation data, her practice and research are largely concerned with the topics of border politics, forms of surveillance and resistance, and the shifting relationship between digital and physical environments. She is particularly interested in the concept of techno-solutionism within the context of utopia and world-building. She holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice, Public Sphere, from the Royal College of Art and has been awarded placements on residency programs ISCP in New York, Off Site Project Google Maps Artist Residency, AGORAMA residency at Raven Row, and Florence Trust Artist in Residence, amongst others. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Furtherfield, London, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Kunsthalle Bratislava, and Triennale of Photography, Hamburg, amongst others.
About the project
During my residency, I will further explore the phenomenon of Null Island, a point in the Atlantic Ocean that, despite its lack of a physical form, is home to an abundance of data due to errors and glitches in geographic coordinate systems. I have long been fascinated by this ‘place’ for its unique surveillance fighting and data liberty- reclaiming potential. As an artist, I think about how the growing dependence on digital services and the inevitable data collection affect our civil liberties, personal freedoms, and our right to privacy. I plan to work on and develop a free web-based application that will digitally migrate its users’ location to Null Island’s GPS coordinates 0,0, where the prime meridian meets the Equator. By doing so, users will be essentially contributing to the large amount of data already present there, making their intentionally located data there impossible to distinguish, rendering it useless for exploitation. In collaboration with Projekt Atol I will work on developing the app, making it accessible and free to use to anyone regardless of their physical geographic location.
