Paula Nishijima

Paula Nishijima is a visual artist with a research-based practice that unfolds at the crossroads of art, science, and technology. The relationship between individual and collective motivations is central to Paula’s artistic practice—through which Nishijima explores how new meanings, values and ethics are (co-)created through participatory and collaborative processes in art.  She investigates the collective and self-organised behaviour of decentralised systems in nature, and how it inspires more collaborative, sustainable and more ethical forms of relationships between humans, nonhumans and the environment. Her artistic research materialises and is documented through different media (installation, video, and photography). Paula forms part of FRIEC collective, a global platform for urban ecological art that nurtures humanity’s cultural relationships with nature; Translocalia, a network of artists, curators, designers, and professionals from different domains that plan for the future through art; Luv ‘til It Hurts, an artist-led project about HIV and stigma; and a member of the board of the Dutch Association of Aesthetics (Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica).