David Rokeby: Art and Artificial Intelligence

Date

Wednesday November 25, 2020
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location

Online

This event is co-presented with the PADP, part of the Art for Social Change Speaker Series.

David Rokeby is an internationally renowned new media, electronic, video, and installation artist who has been exploring human relationships with digital machines for 35 years, starting with Very Nervous System in 1982. His interests have ranged from the issues of digital surveillance in such works as Watch (1995), Guardian Angel (2002) and Sorting daemon (2003) to critical examination of the differences between the human and artificial intelligence (e.g. The giver of Names, 1991; and n鈥攃ha(n)t, 2001).  

He is a recipient of a Governor General鈥檚 Award in Visual and Media Arts (Canada), a Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Interactive Art (Austria), and a 鈥淏AFTA鈥 award (U.K).  

In his art and publications, Rokeby has explored the social, political, and psychological challenges posed by emerging technologies, and conversely, how these can be used to expand the dialogue about what it means to be human in our contemporary world.  

In this talk, he will discuss his work at the intersection of art and computing with a focus on AI.

 

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