Mónica Rikić
Mónica Rikić is an independent artist from Barcelona whose practice merges creative coding and electronics with non-digital objects to create interactive projects, handcrafted robots, and other weird electronic devices.
Her work merges technology and philosophy through art, focusing on alternative ways of thinking about technologies and open hardware. She builds critical devices that act as theatrical artifacts, embodying her conceptual research and provoking collective reflection and discussion. For over a decade, her projects have been awarded and exhibited in institutions and festivals around the world.
My nanny was a computer
This talk shares an ongoing artistic journey exploring assistive robotics through the lens of cyberfeminism, hacker ethics, and maker philosophy. It critiques the focus on improving social acceptance of robotics without addressing systemic issues like caregiving precarity and privatization. Moving beyond corporate design, the research envisions robotics as part of shared, inclusive networks, framing technology development as a caregiving process itself. Robots are seen not as isolated entities, but as interconnected systems, offering a vision of technological futures rooted in collaboration, interdependence, and care.
