Andrea Simionato

Karen ann Donnachie & Andrea (Andy) Simionato have worked exclusively together in the expanded fields of cybernetic art and design since the 1990s. Their artworks and designs have won the highest international awards and critical recognition in their fields, and have been featured in a number of design museums, publications and international press. The duo received the Tokyo Type Directors Club Grand Prize in 2024, the RGB Prize in 2020, and the TDC Prize in 2019. Their AI-generated books received the 2020 Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Book Publishing, and in 2020, they received the Robert Coover Award for Electronic Literature (USA). In 2023, Karen Ann & Andy regularly exhibit internationally and their Nonhuman reading machine was acquired by Germany’s National Library’s Museum for Books and Reading. The duo also run the publishing concern Atomic Activity Books, and designed the journal “Art and Australia.”