More Than Meets AI
I will be presenting an installation of Carbonivore (with Jill Miller, 2023) in the exhibition “More Than Meets AI” at UC Berkeley. This video installation and performance speculatively and playfully visualizes the invisible infrastructure of the global internet and communications technologies.
Carbonivore: video detail (with Jill Miller), 2023. Video with sound and sculptural installation including data cables in storage unit, dimensions variable.
More Than Meets AI
Mez Breeze, Edgar Fabian Frias, Micol Hebron, Carl Hugo Hernqvist, David Jhave Johnston, Asma Kazmi, Alison Knowles, Alinta Krauth, Koirus (Linda Kronman and Andreas Zingerle), Patrick Lichty, Theo Lutz, Talan Memmott, Avital Meshi, Jill Miller, Nick Montfort, Jason Nelson, Eamon O'Kane, Mario de la Ossa, Sonya Rapoport, Scott Rettberg, Mario Santamaria, Alex Saum, Sasha Stiles, and Victor H. Yngve
October 2nd - 14th, 2023
Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Anthropology and Art Practice Building, Berkeley, CA
Hours: 12-5 pm: Mon, Tues, Thur, Friday 1-7pm: Wednesday 12pm-3pm: Saturday 12-3pm
Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 10, 2023. 5-7 pm
Edgar Fabian Frias (MFA '23), "Sovereignty (Eyes in the Dark)," 2023. Digital painting, photography, generative art, variable size.
More than Meets AI conducts an artistic investigation of artificial intelligence and its role in creativity, narrative and artistic innovation. We do so from a critically engaged perspective, one that both engages with the new creative potentialities of AI for the arts and literature, while also considering some of the significant challenges AI poses for our culture and society, and the place of contemporary AI art in relation to historical work in electronic literature. In addition to the digital art exhibition at UC Berkeley's Worth Ryder Gallery, there will be an infrastructure tour exploring AI's and digital technologies' physical infrastructures and environmental impacts in the Bay Area.
Curated by Jill Miller, Eamon O'Kane, and Scott Rettberg, this exhibition emerges from a Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study research project titled “Transformation and Disruption: The Challenges and Opportunities of AI for Human Creativity.” The project is focused on the aesthetic and cultural impacts of AI, and will result both in art exhibitions and research cooperation between the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative and UC Berkeley.
In 2024, an expanded version of the exhibition will be produced in Bergen with new inputs from Norwegian writers and artists. CDN and UiB will organize a research symposium on the narrative and artistic constraints and affordances of AI and produce a catalog and critical reflection on the project and its themes.
Previously in 2019 O'Kane, Rettberg, and Greg Niemeyer co-curated a show at UC Berkeley's Worth Ryder gallery titled "Hyperobjects," which focused on digital art practices addressing climate change.
