Dr. Predrag K. Nikolic
Associate Professor/ Head of School (Design and Arts)
Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Campus
Predrag K. Nikolić, PhD, MBA, is an artist, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, interaction design, and cultural heritage. He is an Associate Professor and Head of the School of Design and Arts, Faculty of Business, Design and Arts, at Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak, Malaysia.
Nikolić is the Founder of AI.R Lab Science, a research and production studio developing AI-generated content and computer vision tools for immersive and virtual environments, and Founder of Epistemoverse (www.epistemoverse.com), a platform investigating AI-driven knowledge ecosystems for the preservation and reinterpretation of intellectual heritage through machine-mediated interaction. He also founded Visia Interactiva, a Malaysia-based practice in AI-driven education and design consultancy, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the EAI Transactions on Creative Technologies journal.
His practice is anchored in a long-running research and artistic trajectory, Syntropic Counterpoints, active since 2017, exploring artificial intelligence as an autonomous, creative, and discursive medium for engaging with philosophy, ethics, and knowledge production. Works within this trajectory include Robosophy Philosophy, Botorikko: Machine-Created State, Metaphysics of the Machines, Epistemoverse, and Botohara: Conflict and Ethical Breakdown in a Synthetic Morality Realm, alongside a parallel ecological-reconstruction body of work spanning Virtual Skin and Aquaterrestrial Recolonization: Mission Borneo, developed through the environmental and cultural context of Sarawak and Borneo.