Ilze Black is a media artist and curator.

She has curated numerous media productions, art events and happenings in and around London during last 10 years. She is one of the co-founders of the innovative new media arts collective Take2030. In 1990s post-Soviet Latvia, Ilze helped to set up the seminal art initiative art bureau OPEN. Her projects focus on network populism, free wireless, open communities and transnational society. Ilze currently leads Waterman’s new media art programme and is an associate of NodeL, HiveNetworks and Class Wargames. Recently she has joined Queen Mary's Media and Art Technology department.