Kersnikova Institute is an art space that runs the educational program Friday Academy, inspired by commissioned artworks developed in our Laboratory for Artificial Life. Our educational approach is through workshops where children and young people acquire knowledge and skills through a hands-on, do-it-yourself, and do-it-together approach. To encourage horizontal knowledge transfer, where children teach children, we have developed an on-line application that allows participants to learn by playing while simultaneously developing intellectual emancipation from top-down knowledge cloning. A playful part of the learning process involves digitizing hands-on pieces that are described and explained to a virtual personal avatar, which develops into a personal assistant connected to a swarm intelligence of other mybots.

Jurij Krpan is the artistic director of the Kapelica Art Gallery. A Graduate of the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana, as a curator and selector, he participated in many domestic and international festivals. In 2003, he was the organizer and artistic director of the Slovenian pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale, and between 2005 and 2009 of the Cosinus BRX project in the building of the European Commission in Brussels. In 2006, he was the curator of U3 – the fifth Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art in the Modern Gallery, and in 2009, the largest intermedia exhibition in Slovenia, Arzenal Depo 2K9. Since 2008 he is involved in curating and jurying programs for live Art and AI at the Ars Electronica festival Linz. In 2017 he was nominated as Ambassador for Smart Specialization by the Ministry of Ministry of Cohesion and Regional Development. In 2021 he co-curated the Exhibition and Symposium The Future of Living with AI in Bozar- Brussels. As an innovation catalyst, he is leading a C-Lab where new models and possible scenarios for co-habitation and co-evolution with AI and Hybrid intelligence are developing.