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Language as Collaborator: Co-Creating with Thinking Machines
Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesThis workshop explores language as a vital creative material and as a medium for collaborative authorship. Through hands-on experimentation, participants will engage questions of imagination, translation, and meaning-making in the age of AI.
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FeaturedGeneration to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies (Opening Day)
Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesThis groundbreaking exhibition illuminates the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent through an immersive fusion of sculptures, prints, electronics, music, movement, and poetry, all born from creative collaboration with AI.
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Generations and Generativity: Post-AI Aesthetics in Practice
Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesJoin 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 StatesThis groundbreaking exhibition illuminates the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent through an immersive fusion of sculptures, prints, electronics, music, movement, and poetry, all born from creative collaboration with AI.
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FeaturedStory Cart With Adam Carr – Crystal Quest
Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum 3209 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesCrystal Quest At the Greene Geological Museum's Darwin Day celebration, we'll ask you to find the mineral that moves you the most. Who knows? Maybe you'll glean some ancient wisdom from a rock of ages. Then, we'll ask you to …
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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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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 …