Animaspace

Angelina Kozhevnikova is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice Animaspace explores how humans, robots, and environments co-shape one another through interactive installations and performances. Her work reimagines dominant technological imaginaries, proposing relational and embodied alternatives grounded in presence and co-agency. Alongside her artistic practice, she researches Human–Robot Collaboration at TU Delft. Her projects have been exhibited internationally and supported by major Dutch and European cultural and academic institutions. She is the winner of the Edigma Semibreve Award, AUAS Research of the Year, and a Lumen Prize nominee. - Across my projects, I treat interaction as a form of shared attention and attunement. I build robots that do not mimic us, but invite us to shift our perception. Much of my work is grounded in the idea of ​​the joint cognitive system, where human and machine form a temporary unity that unfolds across space and time. In this state, meaning is not produced through commands or recognition, but through mutual adjustment and embodied presence. Existentially, my work is guided by the question: How do we discover ourselves through encountering another that does not conform to us, one that reveals who we are in ways we can only understand intuitively? I treat the unknown as a space of possibility, where meeting a different form of intelligence becomes a form of introspection. Ethically, my practice asks: What does care mean when it is not something we give, but a capacity we maintain together across differences? Many of my installations investigate distributed forms of care, where humans and non-humans shape each other through responsiveness, vulnerability and attention.