May 7th – Artificial Intelligence(s), Speculative Infinite Operas, and Synthetic Digital Twins: Observations about machine learning, creative transformation, and artistic practice
We are thrilled to invite you to the next meeting of the Digital Justice Seminar Series. Our guest speaker will be Paul Catanese, a hybrid media artist and professor from Columbia College Chicago. He will be sharing his expertise on machine learning, creative transformation and art practice.
In this talk, Catanese will share artworks that he is creating using machine learning and artificial intelligence during his Fulbright Scholarship at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art in Wrocław this spring and summer. The intention in sharing these works is to invite a discussion regarding processes, concepts, challenges, concerns, and observations that shape artistic creative practice in light of the shifting and ever-expanding terrain of artificial intelligence(s). Within this context, Catanese will also include projects from his artistic practice with art and technology over the past 30 years, including how these actively shape his vision for working with contemporary artificial intelligence(s) and machine learning.
Paul Catanese is a hybrid media artist whose diverse range of works include installation, performance, sound, video, and print media. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Chicago Cultural Center, New Museum of Contemporary Art, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, La Villette, China Academy of Art, Frankston Art Center, Stuttgart Filmwinter, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and ISEA Dubai among others. Catanese is the author of “Director’s Third Dimension” (2001), a book on real-time 3D programming, and co-author of “Post-Digital Printmaking: CNC, Traditional, and Hybrid Techniques” (2012), a book examining the rapid evolution of traditional printmaking to incorporate industrial tools such as laser cutters and computer-controlled routers. From 2009 to 2014, he served as President of the New Media Caucus, an international professional society and affiliate of the College Art Association. In 2014, he was awarded an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, and named the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence at Colgate University in 2018/19. Noteworthy collections featuring his work include the Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries at Wright State University, Center for Art + Environment Archives at the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Most recently, Catanese was selected to be a Fulbright Scholar at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland as a member of the Faculty of Graphics and Media Art during Spring and Summer 2024 while on sabbatical from Columbia College Chicago where he is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for Art and Art History.
See more: http://www.paulcatanese.com/ https://www.instagram.com/paul_catanese/
The seminar will be held in English.
The meeting will take place on 7th May 2024 at 1 pm in Room 2.05D at the Faculty of Law Administration and Economics and online via Teams:
