January 25, 2025, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, NY, USA / Online
January 25, 2025, from 4:00 to 5:30 PM EST — Find your timezone here
The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery
417 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY, 10003
The event will be also live streamed via YouTube
Chair: Alexandra Dementieva
Speakers: Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, Petermfriess, Aernoudt Jacobs, Eunsu Kang, William Latham, Lev Manovich, and Koen Theys
Moderator: Carla Gannis
Supported by Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Flemish Ministry of Culture, and CYLAND Media Art Lab.
This discussion is part of the exhibition SYMBIOSIS: Art in the Age of AI, which opens on January 23, 2025.
The group show SYMBIOSIS: Art in the Age of AI is on display at the SWPK Gallery from January 23 to March 29, 2025. The exhibition features works by eight artists: Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, Petermfriess, Aernoudt Jacobs, Eunsu Kang, William Latham, Lev Manovich, and Koen Theys.
The exhibition explores the complex and evolving relations between human creativity and artificial intelligence. It showcases a diverse set of works by contemporary artists who leverage AI as a collaborator in their artistic processes. “Symbiosis: Art in the Age of AI” is a platform for dialogue and exploration. Through this show, we aim to develop a deeper understanding of the symbiotic relationship between humans and machines, and demonstrate the wide range of possibilities for using AI in art. As opposed to only focusing on the currently popular type of AI technology (i.e., “generative AI”), we want to present a more broad conceptual and aesthetic landscape of AI arts.
The included artworks show diverse and unique manifestations of the symbiotic relationship between artificial and human intelligence. Every piece represents the combination of artificial intelligence’s computer power and sophisticated algorithmic thinking with human intuition, emotions, and concepts. Artists are able to create new forms, explore new aesthetic possibilities, and push the boundaries of their work by utilizing various forms of AI. The included artworks employ a variety of AI techniques and instruments, such as natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, and generative adversarial networks (GANs). The resulting works demonstrate the great potential of AI to enhance human creativity, and they are as diverse as the tools that produced them.
Carla Gannis
Carla Gannis is an American transmedia artist based in New York and a professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Her art is characterized by a commitment to experimentation. Throughout her career, she has worked with an array of mediums and tools, including drawing, painting, video, interactivity, extended reality, and machine learning. Her multilayered narratives explore identity within an atomized and hyperreal 21st-century context – capturing the spirit of our rapidly shifting visual and technological times through blending historical art influences with contemporary digital semiotics and speculative fiction.
Gannis’s work has been exhibited globally in exhibitions, screenings, and internet projects. Her most recent projects include “Networked Nature” at the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN (2024); “wwwunderkammer” at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC (2023); and “Welcome to the wwwunderkammer” at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2022). Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Kunstforum, El PaÍs, ARTNews, Art Forum, The LA Times, among others. She is a Year 7 Alum of NEW INC, in the XR: Bodies in Space track, New York, NY.
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Peter Friess
Alexandra Dementieva
Lev Manovich
Anna Frants
William Latham
Aernoudt Jacobs
Eunsu Kang
KOEN THEYS