Webinar on Jan 12: AI in Contemporary Art: Critical Perspectives

When: Fri, Jan 12, 2024 4-5pm Eastern
Location: Online
Registration Link: https://tennessee.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fyl2tF0IRZypx6HrpyUbiA
Cost: Free
Details:
This talk will present artists who investigate systems, infrastructures and applications of AI. It will cover artists who investigate the components of AI systems such as datasets and classification and look at the social impact of technologies such as facial recognition, recommendation systems and deep fakes.

The speaker for this talk, Luba Elliott, is a curator and researcher specialising in AI art. She works to educate and engage the broader public about the recent developments in AI art through talks and exhibitions at venues across the art, business and technology spectrum including The Serpentine Galleries, arebyte, ZKM, V&A Museum, Impakt Festival, CogX, NeurIPS and ICCV. Her recent projects include the Unit London exhibition ‘The Perfect Error’ and the ART-AI Festival in Leicester, UK. She founded the NeurIPS Creativity and Design Workshop and curated the online galleries aiartonline.com and computervisionart.com. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Prior to that, she worked in start-ups, including the art collector database Larry’s List. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge.

This event is supported by the National Science Foundation and also by the TN Space Grant Consortium at UTK.