Livia Foldes

Livia Foldes (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based cultural worker exploring the latent space between art, design, technology and activism. Her work asks how and why machines are taught to understand and misunderstand our bodies and the identities they carry and explores the radical potential simmering in the gaps. She writes, holds workshops and events, makes software and websites, and uses emerging tools to make images. As the co-founder and creative director of Decoding Stigma, a collective calling for the inclusion of sex worker voices in all spaces that purport to be designing our future, she brings grassroots research and radical theory to accessible platforms through playful, subversive imagery.

She teaches about AI, typography and extended reality at RISD and holds an MFA in design and technology from Parsons School of Design. Her work is held in Rhizome’s permanent collection, and she has spoken in spaces including Princeton, Gray Area and the Prelinger Library.