Mar Canet Solà

Mar Canet Solà is a media artist, researcher, and educator based in Tallinn, Estonia. He is one half of the artist duo Varvara & Mar.

Mar is a PhD candidate and CUDAN research fellow at the Baltic Film, Media, and Arts School at Tallinn University. His doctoral research, titled Artist-Guided Neural Networks: Exploring Artistic Methods using Generative AI in Media Art, explores how artists incorporate deep learning technologies into their creative practices through the framework of artistic research in media art.

He holds an MA from the Interface Cultures program at the University of Art and Design in Linz. He has studied art and design at ESDI in Barcelona and computer game development at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. Mar has also been a visiting researcher at institutions such as XRL at Hong Kong City University, IAMAS in Japan, Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden, and the Center for Humans & Machines at Max Planck.

From October 2024 to March 2026, Mar serves as Substitute Professor for the course Spaces as Processes W2 at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM), Germany.