Ilse Kind (b. 1994, Amsterdam) is an interdisciplinary artist who makes hidden parasitic conditions visible. She works intimately with the systems that shape our lives; treating them as both materials and collaborators, from surveillance hacks (Pareidolia, 2021) and undercover AI labor (Lifetime Approval Rate 96%, 2024) to clay sculptures shaped in dialogue with computer vision (Crouching (0.44), Covering torso(0.52), Sad(0.23), Nudity likelihood (0.61), 2025).
Oscillating between agent, host, and prey, she moves within these infrastructures, using them as material to expose their inner workings through sculpture, video, painting, and installation. Drawing on biological processes, Kind finds in nature the analogies that make technological systems legible: organisms that colonize, adapt, and survive.