photo by Borut Peterlin ©

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Short biography

Valerie Wolf Gang is an intermedia artist, researcher, educator, and senior military specialist working at the intersection of contemporary art, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, defense systems, and digital culture. With more than a decade of international experience in new media art, immersive technologies, experimental film, artificial intelligence, and research-based artistic practice, her work bridges artistic inquiry, strategic innovation, and institutional transformation.

Her practice critically examines the relationship between humans, technology, identity, power structures and future societies. Through artistic research, theoretical writing, education and institutional work, she explores how emerging technologies transform perception, embodiment, communication, warfare, governance and social imagination. Her projects often move between the analog and the digital, combining experimental media, augmented and extended reality, artificial intelligence, historical photographic processes, and speculative approaches to the future.

She currently works within the Slovenian Armed Forces at the Doctrine, Development, Education and Training Command, where she focuses on doctrine development, artificial intelligence integration, digital transformation, future-oriented education and training systems, and the strategic implications of emerging technologies. Her work includes the development of conceptual frameworks for modern defense and security structures, XR and virtual learning environments, innovative communication models and approaches related to hybrid, cognitive, and information operations.

She lectures at the University of Nova Gorica and is completing her doctoral dissertation at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, titled Augmented Reality Appropriation of Space and Identity in the Age of Transhumanism. She is also an expert of the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, editor of the military journal Contemporary Military Challenges, mentor at the Center for Creativity, and co-founder of Peterlin Wolf Gang Studio, dedicated to experimental projects where nineteenth-century technologies meet visions of the future.

She is a recipient of the Ivana Kobilca Award, the Vesna National Film Award and the Fulbright Award. Her work has been presented internationally through exhibitions, residencies, conferences and collaborations across Europe, the United States, Asia and Africa.

Artist statement

“The world around me is my theater and I always observe the play with lots of focus and alertness. I’m very much fond of details, I see what everyday people don’t and I’m fascinated by small everyday events that influence our life. After I observe them I process everything and let myself be inspired and just let go. I take my camera and capture what I see, feel and dream. I create works that come from my heart and I try to speak to people through them. I always want to help those who are innocent, powerless or manipulated and let them know they’re not alone. Art is a strong media that can change the world so I use it with care and respect. When you look at my works, you can always see part of me and my hidden thoughts. They’re coming out in subtle ways that only a keen observer can notice. Look closer and you will see through me: there’s a new world.”

– Valerie Wolf Gang

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photo by Miha Godec ©

About the work of Valerie Wolf Gang:

“Valérie Wolf Gang is forming in the artist of the new generation, who is more sovereign, strong, uncompromisingly clear in her expressive power, while showing excellent knowledge of the techniques and media she uses.

– Rene Rusjan, program director of School of Arts University of Nova Gorica, professor of Contemporary Arts

“Demanding production practice which comprises the work of the artist, especially the quality and potential of its practice shows that Valérie Wolf Gang belongs to the group of the population that deserves the status of Independent Cultural Worker as well as other potential state support, mostly due to that its practice can be developed and maintained at a high artistic level, while able to exceed the boundary between art and its users. “

– Dr. Petja Grafenauer

„In Valérie Wolf Gang’s work, the sense of social and ideological alienation is played out through careful visual choice of materials and reconstructions. In her work one is made aware of the larger ideological or symbolic order through the actual material configurations being presented – that things can be about something else other than what they are made out to be.“

– dr. Lawrence Chin

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