AI-infused exhibition by Nathaniel Stern featured by Forbes

A person stands in front of various computers and tech devices.
"The E-Wasteland" installation, one of six in the exhibition | Gwen Knutson/Nathaniel Stern Studio

Nathinel Stern (Professor and Co-chair, Art & Design; Director, UWM Startup Challenge) had his recent exhibition featured by Forbes magazine. The exhibition, titled “Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies,” is a collaboration with poet Sasha Stiles and focuses on human-AI interactions.  

Writer Leslie Katz describes the exhibition as an exploration of “how humans and technology evolve side by side, inextricable and directly reflective of one another.” Six interactive installations focus on different elements of the relationship between humans and technology. 

“We want to nuance and complicate and deepen the dialogue,” Stern said in the article. “We’re looking at the history of technology materially, in many ways to get people to understand and engage with AI as something that is not so foreign, as something that is all of these previous technologies, feeds all of these previous technologies, feeds into them.” 

“Generation to Generation” is on view at the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph, Michigan, and will run until July 27. To read the full article, visit Forbes.