Experiments in art, agency and automation.
Artists engaging with recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence continue a long history of artistic work that explores the politics and unintended consequences of computational technologies through strategies like hacking, misuse and open-ended experimentation. Within this context I will share my recent work that examines the possibilities and limitations of data, quantification and artificial intelligence in environmental inquiry and ecological management. Might new technologies like AI produce new ecological relations or do they simply reinforce existing power structures? How are artists re-imagining these technologies and their role in our lives?

Speaker
Tega Brain is an Australian born artist and environmental engineer exploring issues of ecology, data, automation, and infrastructure. She is an Industry Associate Professor of integrated Design and Media at New York University and her first book, Code as Creative Medium, is coauthored with Golan Levin and published with MIT Press. She lives and works in New York and Sydney.