October 12, 2023 2:30pm-3:45pm | AI & Art: Reflections on Language, Myths and Culture
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This event features a discussion with Ari Melenciano, en exhibiting artist in the University Galleries’ exhibition The Backend, who is using AI artistically and as a tool for social inquiry. Melenciano’s art and research practice are deeply invested in studying consciousness as a mythopoetic technique for unveiling the collective unconscious in her studio practice drawing on an anthropological approach with AI. Through her interrogation of notions of truth and objectivity, her work reveals the influence of myths that humanity is rooted within, as well as how the power dynamics of language are being automated through AI. Melanciano reflects on her work in a conversation with Montclair faculty, including Charlotte Kent, Associate Professor of Visual Culture, and Julian Brash, Associate Professor of Anthropology.
This is an online event on Zoom. Please register here.
Presented by the University Galleries and Research on Interdisciplinary Global Studies (RIGS) and supported by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Departments for Justice Studies, Religion and Sociology.
