Simulated Worlds: Participatory World-Building with Artificial Intelligence Artist Talk + Interactive AI Experience

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Simulated Worlds: Participatory World-Building with Artificial Intelligence Artist Talk + Interactive AI Experience
 Dec 02 2022 - 7:00 PM
Simulated Worlds: Participatory World-Building with Artificial Intelligence
Vanessa Rosa Artist Talk + Interactive AI Experience
December 2, 2012
All ages
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Seated program
Join us for a special interactive experience and Artist Talk exploring new AI-image making technologies with visual artist Vanessa Rosa.
Gray Area is pleased to present Simulated Worlds: Participatory World-Building with Artificial Intelligence, a special program created in collaboration with Xenoform Labs. In this special session, Xenoforms artist-in-residence Vanessa Rosa will explore the capacity of new AI image-making technologies like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney (among others) to empower communities of artists to create together.
The artist will share her own artistic process, discuss the history and current state of generative AI art, and invite the public to create AI powered animations by contributing their own prompts and working directly with the software. Participants will be immersed in computer-generated imagery, as they craft clever prompts that test the boundaries of human-machine imagination.
Workshops
Vanessa Rosa teaches a free workshop on AI image-making and prompt-writing.
What does it take to make a great prompt? And how can we push the algorithm further?
Two different dates are offered for this workshop, Tuesday, November 29, and Thursday, December 1, from 5pm - 7pm:
Vanessa Rosa
Vanessa Rosa is a US-based, Brazilian visual artist. Her work merges physical and digital media into a storytelling continuum—murals become portals to an imaginary world with projection mapping, and ceramics metamorphose into living entities with the aid of AI models. These hybrid tools allow Rosa to tell fictional tales about world history, past and possible futures intertwined. Rosa has exhibited her work around the world. Some of her most notable projects include: the 'Little Martians' sci fi universe, the Art History children’s book 'Diana’s World', a painting about domestic violence for UN Women, a large scale mural for Pioneer Works (NYC, USA), a mural for Le Centre (Cotonou, Benin), and coordination of the Sankofa project during Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
Partners
Scott Kildall
Scott Kildall has been working with art + technology + education for over 15 years and is an artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute. His work looks at the interplay between territory and technology and aims to repurpose technology for liberation rather than replication and augmentation of power structures, as often happens without artistic intervention. He is an artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute and runs his own artist-in-residency program, Xenoform Labs in San Francisco to support new media artists from outside of the Bay Area.
Xenoform Labs
The mission of Xenoform Labs is to support new media artists – those who work at the intersection between art and technology with criticality – throughout the beginning stages of shaping and experimenting their practice; and giving these artists the space for interaction and conversation with local artists, thinkers, curators, writers and creatives. In such a tech-centric city, Xenoform strives to provide a space where artists working with new technologies have the ability to help shape the narrative by including community into their artistic processes. Established in October 2018, Xenoform Labs features ample studio space and housing for a solo artist or couple, within a home environment, in San Francisco’s historic Mission District. The studio includes digital media, virtual-reality hardware, media production and light-fabrication capabilities. Xenoform asks artists to come prepared with an initial inquiry, to be able to focus solely on the process of experimentation, so that their ideas can take shape and become the foundation of refined and finished works.
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