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Title
Theia
Artist
Anna Mlasowsky
Year
2026
Medium
MP4, archival Images of historic glass objects provided by the Corning Museum of Glass Image database
Dimensions
5,440 × 1,260 px
Description of Artwork
Visually inspired by biblical mythos, the video artwork re-melts and re-shapes historic glass objects of the Corning Museum of Glass collection through generative AI processes. It uses new technologies to infiltrate and reimagine the current history of glass making in which female makers are absent. The title Theia references, an overlooked Greek goddess and mother of the main celestial bodies of our solar system. She serves as a representation of the female creators and the absence of their labor and achievements.
About the Artist
Born in 1984 in East Germany, Anna Mlasowsky is an artist, curator and educator. Anna is a recipient of a TAG Grant (2015), an IASPIS Grant (2013) from the Swedish Arts Council, an Artist Trust Fellowship (2017) and 4Culture Grant (2019), she was most recently a Haas Fellow at the Science History Institute (2021-22) and an artist in residence at Amazon (2022). She received an Aldo Bellini Award (2015), the John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence (2018) a Toyama Glass Biennial Silver Prize and was a Museum of Art and Design Burk Prize finalist. Her work is in the collections of institutions such as The Corning Museum of Glass (NY), The Toyama City Art Museum (Japan), the Castello Sforzesco (Milan, Italy) and the Museum of Art and Design (NY, USA) and the Museum of Art & Industry (Hamburg, DE).
