Kristaps Ancāns is a Latvian-British artist, writer, and educator whose practice spans installation, sculpture, language, and moving images. Ancāns explores the confusion in the relationship between humanity, nature, and machines through an evolving conceptual game with its own artificial intelligence. His installations—often containing a kinetic component—welcome questioning and invite uncertainty in their relationship with the viewer. Ancāns is the cohead of POST, an interdisciplinary MA program at the Art Academy of Latvia. He lives and works between London and Riga. After finishing a BA at Art Academy of Latvia, he graduated from Central Saint Martins, London, in 2016 with an MA in Fine Arts. Ancāns has been awarded the Cecil Lewis Sculpture Scholarship by University of the Arts London and received the Helen Scott Lidgett Studio Award 2016–17 from the Acme Studios’ Residency & Awards Programme, and has been nominated for a number of awards, including the Purvītis Prize (2019) and the Arts Foundation Fellowship (2018).