Generative AI is at the forefront of emerging artificial intelligence technologies that are rapidly transforming art, the humanities, and cultural economies worldwide. It is fundamentally changing how we write, research, and teach, and what it means to be creative. Yet we know little about where this might lead us. The CUNY Graduate Center will present an interdisciplinary symposium to explore recent developments and uses of AI. The two-day symposium will present a range of topics that address the ethical and political considerations around AI, creative collaborations between humans and AI, the early history of “machines with intelligence,” and AI’s biases and applications.

Symposium participants include scholars who are specialists in AI aesthetics and the history of machine learning, multi-media artists, and computational researchers experimenting with AI.

• Media scholar Lev Manovich has pioneered computational analysis and the visualization of massive cultural visual datasets in the humanities.
• Multimedia artist Ellie Pritts has worked with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Apple. Her artwork was recently auctioned by Christie’s.
• Computer scientist Katy Gero and computational poet Kyle Booten develop computational interfaces for writers and edit a literary magazine of computer-mediated writing.
• Music and media scholar Doug Barrett’s recent book is Experimenting the Human: Art, Music, and the Contemporary Posthuman (University of Chicago Press, 2023).
• Science historian Andreas Killen’s recent book is Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War (Harper Collins, 2023).
• The Data Fluencies Theatre Project is a Mellon-funded ensemble of theatre and multimedia artists and computer scientists.

Click here for more information about this two-day symposium.

Time: 9:00 am EDT

Free!

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