Art and Technology Speaker Series
Pattern Recognition:
AI in Art; Art in AI
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Join moderator Mashinka Firunts Hakopian in Conversation with K Allado-McDowell, Jennifer Moon, and Casey Reas at Honor Fraser Gallery
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October 28, 2021 at 7 pm. |
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K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the book Pharmako-AI, and are co-editor, with Ben Vickers, of The Atlas of Anomalous AI. They record and release music under the name Qenric.
Allado-McDowell established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI. They are a conference speaker, educator and consultant to think-tanks and institutions seeking to align their work with deeper traditions of human understanding.
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Jennifer Moon (they/she; b. 1973, Lafayette, Indiana; lives and works in Los Angeles) is an interdisciplinary life-artist whose work investigates the co-production of organizing systems (social systems, institutional structures, power relations, scientific theories, emotional frameworks, etc.) and how these various systems are entangled, co-constituted, performed, and perpetuated through bodies (human, nonhuman, material, immaterial). Drawing from queer life, science, self-help, popular culture, the deeply personal, and fantasy, Moon’s work mobilizes possibilities to reconfigure our relationship to power, to reignite the social and political imaginaries, and to stimulate change beyond binaries, hierarchies, and capital.
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Reas' software, prints, and installations have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions. His work ranges from small works on paper to urban-scale installations, and he balances solo work in the studio with collaborations with architects and musicians. Reas is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Media Arts and Sciences and a bachelor’s degree from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. With Ben Fry, Reas initiated Processing in 2001; Processing is an open-source programming language and environment for the visual arts
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Moderator:
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
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Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is a visiting Mellon Professor in the Practice at Occidental College, where she is co-curating the exhibition “Encoding Futures: Critical Imaginaries of AI” at Oxy Arts with Meldia Yesayan. She is an Associate Director of Research at the Berggruen Institute and prior to this held a two-year teaching appointment in UCLA’s Department of English. Her book, Algorithmic Bias Training, or, Lectures for Intelligent Machines, is forthcoming from X Artists’ Books.
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Video documentation of previous Art and Technology Speaker events can be viewed at the link bellow:
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Upcoming events in the
Art and Technology Speaker Series
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Pattern Recognition: AI in Art; Art in AI
October 28, 2021
NFTs in 2022
November 2021
Tools for Subversion and Empowerment in Art and Technology
December 2021
Digital Combines: Conversation with Claudia Hart
January 2022
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All Art and Technology Speaker Series events require masks
and proof of vaccination.
Special Thanks to Art Reality Studio
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