PRAx Annual Theme: AI and Creativity Panel
What does art look like in the age of Generative AI softwares, and how is it impacting the way we create?
Some herald Generative AI as a new artistic medium, while many artists claim their work was used without permission or compensation.
Tilly Norwood, for example, has become one of the first “AI-generated actresses,” represented by a talent studio specialized in marketing others like her. Norwood marks one of the many ways Generative AI is changing creative industries and creative practice.
What may be a lifelong discipline for human creatives can be executed more "efficiently" and with fewer labor concerns by artificial intelligence. What is lost and what is gained by using AI to create? Do “the artist’s hand” and other analog processes still have cultural and economic value? Is AI-generated art something to be embraced or carefully monitored and resisted?
In conjunction with the exhibition machinekind, join PRAx for a gathering of OSU faculty and other creatives in a conversation about the future of creative work in the era of new technologies.
The panel will be moderated by Ashley Stull Meyers (Senior Curator of Contemporary Art), from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. From 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., attendees will have the opportunity to participate in an informal Q&A and explore the machinekind exhibition.
Panelists:
- Alicia Patterson (Mary Jones and Thomas Hart Horning Assistant Professor, Applied Philosophy)
- Kelly Bosworth (Assistant Professor of Public History and Ethnomusicology)
- Rick Febre (Graphic Design Sr. Instructor)
- David J Torres (Visual Artist who uses AI in his work to explore speculative futures)
- Derek Kwan (Graduate student in engineering and a musician)
Panelist Bios
Alicia Patterson
Alicia Patterson is the Mary Jones and Thomas Hart Horning Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy at the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at OSU. Her research focuses on the ethics of emerging technology, with a special interest in privacy and data ethics. Prior to OSU, Patterson was a postdoctoral fellow at Ethics Lab at Georgetown University. At Georgetown, she worked on developing ethics curriculum for computer science classes as part of the Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge. She holds a PhD in philosophy from Cornell University.
Kelly Bosworth
Kelly Bosworth is an ethnomusicologist, historian, musician, and educator. She serves as Assistant Professor of Public History and Ethnomusicology at Oregon State University and as artistic director and host of the American Strings series. Her research sits at the intersection of expressive culture, place, and belonging. Before OSU, she worked at the Archives of Traditional Music, Traditional Arts Indiana, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. She holds a dual-major PhD from Indiana University in history and ethnomusicology.
Rick Febre
Rick Febre is a Senior Instructor of Graphic Design at Oregon State University, as well as a graphic design practitioner. He has previously worked in areas of advertising photography, advertising and graphic design. His work has been recognized in Graphic Design USA magazine, as well as industry-specific awards. He has shown artwork nationally including exhibitions in the Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program in NYC, The Power Plant Gallery at Duke University, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado and Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, CA. He completed his MFA in Intermedia Design from The State University of New York at New Paltz.
David J Torres
David Torres is a New Media Artist and Co-Faculty Department Chair at PCC’s Cascade Campus. Born in West Palm Beach, FL, his work explores unseen moral forces and class dynamics within American culture. Drawing from African American history, he envisions the “hero” as an empathic ideal. Through his alter-ego Riakman and the expansive Sunkeepers universe, Torres fuses painting, drawing, and sculpture with 3-D modeling, filmmaking, and AI. His exhibitions include Hollywood Theatre, Blackfish Gallery, and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, with fellowships at Oxbow School of Art, Marie Walsh Sharpe, and Wheaton College’s Visiting Artist Program.
Derek Kwan
Derek Kwan is a PhD student at Oregon State University in artificial intelligence currently researching machine learning applications in music and audio. He has practiced as a live coding electronic musician, audiovisual artist, and percussionist with a focus on improvisation and aleatoric art. As a musician, he has appeared in the Bang on a Can Marathon, Make Music New York, and the New York City Electroac Music Festival and has performed with Raphael Mostel’s Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble and Iktus Percussion. As an audiovisual artist, he has work featured at the Small File Media Festival and at Sacramento’s Brickhouse Art Gallery. He has been in residence at the precursor to Mars College held in Bombay Beach, CA as well as Art-a-Hack and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Kwan holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in percussion from Stony Brook University.
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