PINAR YOLDAS
Keynote on 8th July 2026︎Award-winning artist and professor
︎University of California San Diego
Pinar Yoldas is a research-based artist and academic whose work focuses on the Anthropocene, futurism, and feminist technoscience.
Yoldas highlights the term "speculative biology" in comparison to experimental architecture of the 1990s, as design of tissues, organs, organisms, biological systems, ecotypes and ecosystems in order to catalyse creative critical thinking.
She brings with her the mesmerising Kitty A.I. (2016), which narrates its future role as governor of the world.
She is a Guggenheim fellow and a MacDowell Colony fellow.