Telle.Kalkattak (Estelle Cortet) traces the evolution of image-making from the flicker of MiniDV to the unpredictable landscapes of generative AI.
With a background that spans media sciences and software development, she treats technology not as a tool, but as a collaborator—exploring the glitches, biases, and surreal moments that arise when machine logic meets human irrationality.
Her work balances technical precision with absurdist experimentation, crafting what she calls “nonsense with intent”, fleeting transmissions from a world that is both alien and disconcertingly familiar.
Her process begins with a fascination for tactile imperfection: the glitches, organic noise, and uncanny textures that emerge when AI meets human irrationality. She collaborates with the machine through language, not seeking photorealism but the surreal, the spliced moments where a face might become a wire, or a dinner morph into a displaced memory.
