Arts and Culture
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Practices, Not Prophecies: An Interdisciplinary AI Conversation
Join the Center for 21st Century Studies, artist-technologist Nathaniel Stern, poet-researcher Sasha Stiles, and The Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a panel discussion about the boundaries between human and machine-generated cultural production.
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Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies
Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesAbout Artists Sasha Stiles and Nathaniel Stern install their show Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies for a week-long run at Kenilworth Square East Gallery from February 12 to 20. AI is a transformational force in human history, akin to …
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Human Club: MUD Potluck
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesCome eat, share, and grow with Human Club and the Milwaukee Urban Demo Farms (MUD) Network! Guests are invited to bring a potluck-style dish or a recipe to share as we gather for food and conversation. Participants will also have …
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FeaturedAesthetics, Art, & AI: Kite
Arts Center Lecture Hall 2400 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesJoin the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) for an artist talk with Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and scholar. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Kite develops body interfaces for machine learning driven performance, sculptures generated by dreams, and experimental sound and video work. Working with machine learning techniques since 2017 and developing body interfaces for performance since 2013, Kite is a first American Indian artist to utilize Machine Learning in art practice.
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Story Cart with Symphony Swan – (W)rites of Spring
Event Details C21's Story Cart project and Symphony Swan, '25-'26 Story Fellow present W(rites) of Spring, a radical attention workshop with artist Mia Rimmer. As the land transitions out of winter into bloom, W(rites) of Spring calls us to communicate …
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Cactus Book Club with C21: Attensity!
Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesC21's Story Cart program invites you to join Katie Waddell, C21 Managing Director, for the April 2026 edition of the Cactus Book Club. Cactus Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30 in the back room …