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SUMMARY:Language as Collaborator: Co-Creating with Thinking Machines
DESCRIPTION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N Prospect Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI 53202\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public; prior registration required\n\n\n\nFebruary 12\, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nTo coincide with the exhibition Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies by Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles\, this workshop with the artists 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. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI series\, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison\, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). \n\n\n\nSpace is limited to 25 participants. Prior registration is required.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet\, artist and AI researcher whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics\, generative imagination and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and time — and blends word\, image and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age.  \n\n\n\nSince 2018\, Stiles has been at the forefront of human-machine co-creation\, using language as a lens to probe the promise and peril of creative technologies like machine learning and blockchain. Her experiments and insights have established her as a leading voice in creative AI\, and a thoughtful contributor to the global conversation about the future of art\, technology\, and humanity. From Technelegy (2021) — a first-of-its-kind poetry and art collection co-authored with a personalized AI model and praised by Ray Kurzweil — to award-winning projects such as “Cursive Binary” and “Repetae\,” Stiles continually pushes the boundaries of expression\, situating AI within the broader question of what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman world. Stiles’ work has been recognized by the Prix Ars Electronica\, Sigg Art Prize\, Lumen Prize\, Women in AI Awards\, and Future.Art.Awards; featured in Artforum\, Christie’s\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, and Poets & Writers; and exhibited and performed internationally\, from Lincoln Center and the V&A to MoMA\, Art Basel\, Kunsthalle Zurich\, Outernet London\, New York’s Times Square\, and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern is an artist and writer\, Fulbright and NSF grantee and professor\, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from ecological\, participatory\, and online interventions\, interactive\, immersive\, and mixed reality environments\, to prints\, sculptures\, videos\, performances. and hybrid forms. His first book\, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (Gylphi 2013)\, takes a close look at the stakes for interactive and digital art\, and Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans\, nature\, and politics (Dartmouth 2018) is a creative and scholarly collection of stories about art\, artists\, and their materials\, which argues that ecology\, aesthetics\, and ethics are inherently interconnected\, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices. Stern’s ongoing work with startups and industry\, on the other hand\, has helped launch dozens of new businesses\, products\, and ideas. He has been featured in the likes of the Wall Street Journal\, Guardian UK\, Huffington Post\, Daily Mail\, Washington Post\, Daily News\, BBC’s Today show\, WIRED\, Boing Boing\, Gizmodo\, PetaPixel\, M Magazine\, Time\, Forbes\, Fast Company\, Scientific American\, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\, Leonardo Journal of Art\, Science and Technology\, Rhizome\, Furtherfield\, Turbulence\, and more. According to Chicago’s widely popular Bad at Sports art podcast\, Stern has “the most varied and strange bio of maybe anyone ever on the show\,” and South Africa’s Live Out Loud magazine calls him a “prolific scholar” as well as artist\, whose work is “quite possibly some of the most relevant around.” “Technological\, thought-provoking and unexpected” (NPR) he’s been dubbed one of Milwaukee’s “avant-garde” (Journal Sentinel)\, called ”an interesting and prolific fixture” (Artthrob.co.za) behind many “multimedia experiments” (Time.com)\, “accessible and abstract simultaneously” (Art and Electronic Media web site)\, someone “with starry\, starry eyes” (Wired.com) who “makes an obscene amount of work in an obscene amount of ways” (Bad at Sports) – both “bizarre and beautiful” (Gizmodo). According to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing\, Stern makes “beautiful\, glitched out art-images\,” and Caleb A. Scharf at Scientific American says Stern’s art is “tremendous fun\,” and “fascinating” in how it is “investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art.”
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/aaai-workshop/
LOCATION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aesthetics, Art, & AI,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,Graduate Students,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,UWM Campus Events,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies (Opening Day)
DESCRIPTION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N Prospect Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI 53202\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public\n\n\n\nFebruary 12\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpening Day EventsWorkshop (registration required)11:00 AM – 12:00 PMGallery Walkthrough2:00 PM – 3:00 PMPanel Discussion (registration requested)3:00 PM – 4:30 PMOpening Reception5:00 PM – 7:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nArtists 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. Join Stern\, Stiles\, and The Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a workshop\, gallery walk\, panel on AI and contemporary art\, and opening reception with light refreshments on Thursday\, February 12.    \n\n\n\nAI is a transformational force in human history\, akin to the rise of language itself\, the printing press or our harnessing of electricity\, unlocking new realms of imagination and awareness. Yet its discourse is fraught with fear\, misunderstanding\, and disconnection. By blending Artificial Intelligence with more traditional artistic expression\, Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies cultivates new pathways for imagination while nurturing the roots of our creative inheritance\, and the always-evolving dialogue between art and innovation.   \n\n\n\nThis 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.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI series\, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison\, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGallery Hours\n\n\n\n\nFeb 12: 11 AM – 7 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 13: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 14: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 17: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 18: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 19: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 20: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet\, artist and AI researcher whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics\, generative imagination and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and time — and blends word\, image and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age.  \n\n\n\nSince 2018\, Stiles has been at the forefront of human-machine co-creation\, using language as a lens to probe the promise and peril of creative technologies like machine learning and blockchain. Her experiments and insights have established her as a leading voice in creative AI\, and a thoughtful contributor to the global conversation about the future of art\, technology\, and humanity. From Technelegy (2021) — a first-of-its-kind poetry and art collection co-authored with a personalized AI model and praised by Ray Kurzweil — to award-winning projects such as “Cursive Binary” and “Repetae\,” Stiles continually pushes the boundaries of expression\, situating AI within the broader question of what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman world. Stiles’ work has been recognized by the Prix Ars Electronica\, Sigg Art Prize\, Lumen Prize\, Women in AI Awards\, and Future.Art.Awards; featured in Artforum\, Christie’s\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, and Poets & Writers; and exhibited and performed internationally\, from Lincoln Center and the V&A to MoMA\, Art Basel\, Kunsthalle Zurich\, Outernet London\, New York’s Times Square\, and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern is an artist and writer\, Fulbright and NSF grantee and professor\, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from ecological\, participatory\, and online interventions\, interactive\, immersive\, and mixed reality environments\, to prints\, sculptures\, videos\, performances. and hybrid forms. His first book\, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (Gylphi 2013)\, takes a close look at the stakes for interactive and digital art\, and Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans\, nature\, and politics (Dartmouth 2018) is a creative and scholarly collection of stories about art\, artists\, and their materials\, which argues that ecology\, aesthetics\, and ethics are inherently interconnected\, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices. Stern’s ongoing work with startups and industry\, on the other hand\, has helped launch dozens of new businesses\, products\, and ideas. He has been featured in the likes of the Wall Street Journal\, Guardian UK\, Huffington Post\, Daily Mail\, Washington Post\, Daily News\, BBC’s Today show\, WIRED\, Boing Boing\, Gizmodo\, PetaPixel\, M Magazine\, Time\, Forbes\, Fast Company\, Scientific American\, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\, Leonardo Journal of Art\, Science and Technology\, Rhizome\, Furtherfield\, Turbulence\, and more. According to Chicago’s widely popular Bad at Sports art podcast\, Stern has “the most varied and strange bio of maybe anyone ever on the show\,” and South Africa’s Live Out Loud magazine calls him a “prolific scholar” as well as artist\, whose work is “quite possibly some of the most relevant around.” “Technological\, thought-provoking and unexpected” (NPR) he’s been dubbed one of Milwaukee’s “avant-garde” (Journal Sentinel)\, called ”an interesting and prolific fixture” (Artthrob.co.za) behind many “multimedia experiments” (Time.com)\, “accessible and abstract simultaneously” (Art and Electronic Media web site)\, someone “with starry\, starry eyes” (Wired.com) who “makes an obscene amount of work in an obscene amount of ways” (Bad at Sports) – both “bizarre and beautiful” (Gizmodo). According to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing\, Stern makes “beautiful\, glitched out art-images\,” and Caleb A. Scharf at Scientific American says Stern’s art is “tremendous fun\,” and “fascinating” in how it is “investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art.”
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/gen-to-gen-opening/
LOCATION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aesthetics, Art, & AI,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Exhibit,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Students,Students,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Generations and Generativity: Post-AI Aesthetics in Practice
DESCRIPTION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N Prospect Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI 53202\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public\, prior registration requested\n\n\n\nFebruary 12\, 3:00 – 4:30 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nJoin 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.    \n\n\n\nAfter the panel\, catch the opening reception for  Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies\, a collaborative contemporary art exhibition by Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI series\, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison\, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet\, artist and AI researcher whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics\, generative imagination and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and time — and blends word\, image and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age.  \n\n\n\nSince 2018\, Stiles has been at the forefront of human-machine co-creation\, using language as a lens to probe the promise and peril of creative technologies like machine learning and blockchain. Her experiments and insights have established her as a leading voice in creative AI\, and a thoughtful contributor to the global conversation about the future of art\, technology\, and humanity. From Technelegy (2021) — a first-of-its-kind poetry and art collection co-authored with a personalized AI model and praised by Ray Kurzweil — to award-winning projects such as “Cursive Binary” and “Repetae\,” Stiles continually pushes the boundaries of expression\, situating AI within the broader question of what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman world. Stiles’ work has been recognized by the Prix Ars Electronica\, Sigg Art Prize\, Lumen Prize\, Women in AI Awards\, and Future.Art.Awards; featured in Artforum\, Christie’s\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, and Poets & Writers; and exhibited and performed internationally\, from Lincoln Center and the V&A to MoMA\, Art Basel\, Kunsthalle Zurich\, Outernet London\, New York’s Times Square\, and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern is an artist and writer\, Fulbright and NSF grantee and professor\, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from ecological\, participatory\, and online interventions\, interactive\, immersive\, and mixed reality environments\, to prints\, sculptures\, videos\, performances. and hybrid forms. His first book\, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (Gylphi 2013)\, takes a close look at the stakes for interactive and digital art\, and Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans\, nature\, and politics (Dartmouth 2018) is a creative and scholarly collection of stories about art\, artists\, and their materials\, which argues that ecology\, aesthetics\, and ethics are inherently interconnected\, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices. Stern’s ongoing work with startups and industry\, on the other hand\, has helped launch dozens of new businesses\, products\, and ideas. He has been featured in the likes of the Wall Street Journal\, Guardian UK\, Huffington Post\, Daily Mail\, Washington Post\, Daily News\, BBC’s Today show\, WIRED\, Boing Boing\, Gizmodo\, PetaPixel\, M Magazine\, Time\, Forbes\, Fast Company\, Scientific American\, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\, Leonardo Journal of Art\, Science and Technology\, Rhizome\, Furtherfield\, Turbulence\, and more. According to Chicago’s widely popular Bad at Sports art podcast\, Stern has “the most varied and strange bio of maybe anyone ever on the show\,” and South Africa’s Live Out Loud magazine calls him a “prolific scholar” as well as artist\, whose work is “quite possibly some of the most relevant around.” “Technological\, thought-provoking and unexpected” (NPR) he’s been dubbed one of Milwaukee’s “avant-garde” (Journal Sentinel)\, called ”an interesting and prolific fixture” (Artthrob.co.za) behind many “multimedia experiments” (Time.com)\, “accessible and abstract simultaneously” (Art and Electronic Media web site)\, someone “with starry\, starry eyes” (Wired.com) who “makes an obscene amount of work in an obscene amount of ways” (Bad at Sports) – both “bizarre and beautiful” (Gizmodo). According to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing\, Stern makes “beautiful\, glitched out art-images\,” and Caleb A. Scharf at Scientific American says Stern’s art is “tremendous fun\,” and “fascinating” in how it is “investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCharlotte Kent\n\n\n\nCharlotte Kent\, PhD\, is Associate Professor of Visual Culture and Head of Visual and Critical Studies at Montclair State University. She is co-editor with Katherine Guinness of the book\, “Contemporary Absurdities\, Existential Crises\, and Visual Art” (Intellect Books) and an Editor-at-Large for The Brooklyn Rail with a monthly column on Art & Technology\, contributing to many arts magazines and academic journals about the intersection of contemporary art\, digital culture\, and ecological systems. Raised abroad and near Times Square\, she most recently co-authored “Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square” (Phaidon Press\, 2024). Her research on the social implications of contemporary art’s creative misuse of 21st century technologies continues with “Contemporary Art and Technology: Rethinking Systems\, Crises\, and the Absurd” (forthcoming\, Routledge’s Art and Science After 1750 series). She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (2024-2026) for research on concepts of agency as exhibited in arts intersection with “AI” as well as the term’s diverse meanings across disciplines; this research has also been supported by Google’s Artist + Machine Intelligence program (2023\, 2024). In 2023\, she was the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at NXT Museum\, where she co-curated with Jesse Damiani the RealTime exhibit\, “Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Systems.”  
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/gen-to-gen-panel/
LOCATION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aesthetics, Art, & AI,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Panel,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies
DESCRIPTION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N Prospect Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI 53202\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public\n\n\n\nFebruary 12-20\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nFeb 12: 11 AM – 7 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 13: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 14: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 17: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 18: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 19: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 20: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nArtists 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.     \n\n\n\nAI is a transformational force in human history\, akin to the rise of language itself\, the printing press or our harnessing of electricity\, unlocking new realms of imagination and awareness. Yet its discourse is fraught with fear\, misunderstanding\, and disconnection. By blending Artificial Intelligence with more traditional artistic expression\, Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies cultivates new pathways for imagination while nurturing the roots of our creative inheritance\, and the always-evolving dialogue between art and innovation.   \n\n\n\nThis 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.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI series\, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison\, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet\, artist and AI researcher whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics\, generative imagination and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and time — and blends word\, image and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age.  \n\n\n\nSince 2018\, Stiles has been at the forefront of human-machine co-creation\, using language as a lens to probe the promise and peril of creative technologies like machine learning and blockchain. Her experiments and insights have established her as a leading voice in creative AI\, and a thoughtful contributor to the global conversation about the future of art\, technology\, and humanity. From Technelegy (2021) — a first-of-its-kind poetry and art collection co-authored with a personalized AI model and praised by Ray Kurzweil — to award-winning projects such as “Cursive Binary” and “Repetae\,” Stiles continually pushes the boundaries of expression\, situating AI within the broader question of what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman world. Stiles’ work has been recognized by the Prix Ars Electronica\, Sigg Art Prize\, Lumen Prize\, Women in AI Awards\, and Future.Art.Awards; featured in Artforum\, Christie’s\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, and Poets & Writers; and exhibited and performed internationally\, from Lincoln Center and the V&A to MoMA\, Art Basel\, Kunsthalle Zurich\, Outernet London\, New York’s Times Square\, and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern is an artist and writer\, Fulbright and NSF grantee and professor\, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from ecological\, participatory\, and online interventions\, interactive\, immersive\, and mixed reality environments\, to prints\, sculptures\, videos\, performances. and hybrid forms. His first book\, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (Gylphi 2013)\, takes a close look at the stakes for interactive and digital art\, and Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans\, nature\, and politics (Dartmouth 2018) is a creative and scholarly collection of stories about art\, artists\, and their materials\, which argues that ecology\, aesthetics\, and ethics are inherently interconnected\, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices. Stern’s ongoing work with startups and industry\, on the other hand\, has helped launch dozens of new businesses\, products\, and ideas. He has been featured in the likes of the Wall Street Journal\, Guardian UK\, Huffington Post\, Daily Mail\, Washington Post\, Daily News\, BBC’s Today show\, WIRED\, Boing Boing\, Gizmodo\, PetaPixel\, M Magazine\, Time\, Forbes\, Fast Company\, Scientific American\, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\, Leonardo Journal of Art\, Science and Technology\, Rhizome\, Furtherfield\, Turbulence\, and more. According to Chicago’s widely popular Bad at Sports art podcast\, Stern has “the most varied and strange bio of maybe anyone ever on the show\,” and South Africa’s Live Out Loud magazine calls him a “prolific scholar” as well as artist\, whose work is “quite possibly some of the most relevant around.” “Technological\, thought-provoking and unexpected” (NPR) he’s been dubbed one of Milwaukee’s “avant-garde” (Journal Sentinel)\, called ”an interesting and prolific fixture” (Artthrob.co.za) behind many “multimedia experiments” (Time.com)\, “accessible and abstract simultaneously” (Art and Electronic Media web site)\, someone “with starry\, starry eyes” (Wired.com) who “makes an obscene amount of work in an obscene amount of ways” (Bad at Sports) – both “bizarre and beautiful” (Gizmodo). According to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing\, Stern makes “beautiful\, glitched out art-images\,” and Caleb A. Scharf at Scientific American says Stern’s art is “tremendous fun\,” and “fascinating” in how it is “investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art.”
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/aaai-gen-to-gen-2/
LOCATION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aesthetics, Art, & AI,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Exhibit,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Students,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Story Cart With Adam Carr - Crystal Quest
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, February 14\, 10:00am-12:00pm\n\n\n\nThomas A. Greene Geological Museum\, Lapham Hall\, Room 3663209 N. Maryland Ave.\n\n\n\nPart of Darwin Day (10:00am-3:00pm); free and open to the public\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrystal Quest\n\n\n\nAt 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. \n\n\n\nThen\, we’ll ask you to talk about it with Story Fellow Adam Carr while we record your conversation for the Story Cart’s digital archive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Adam Carr\n\n\n\nAdam  Carr  is an independent writer\, artist\, journalist\, community historian and organizer based in Milwaukee. Carr was director of strategic partnerships at Milwaukee Park Foundation from 2022-2025 and producer at 88Nine RadioMilwaukee from 2008-2011. Working in communities throughout Milwaukee\, his work ranges from journalism to public art\, film/photography to coalition building\, dialogue facilitation to community history\, writing to in-depth tours.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Darwin Day\n\n\n\nThomas A. Greene Geological Museum invites you to celebrate Darwin Day\, a public outreach event celebrating the life and times of one of the most brilliant and influential Victorian naturalists\, Charles R. Darwin. Darwin was an avid geologist and biologist who most famously developed the theory of natural selection—one of the driving mechanisms behind biological evolution—published in his seminal work: On the Origin of Species. Today\, this theory forms the foundation for many of our natural sciences. Darwin Day is a national celebration of Darwin’s scientific legacy typically held on (or near) his birthday. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to guests of all ages. Many wonderful geological and biological specimens will be available to observe\, with volunteers on hand to explain their fascinating histories. Learning tables will focus on the natural history of Wisconsin and the contributions of the Thomas A. Greene to our understanding of local geology\, with many rare and beautiful samples on display in the Greene Geological Museum. Other activities will be available throughout the day\, including scientific lectures presented by UWM scientists and guest speakers\, coloring and crafts for young kids\, and free planetarium shows. See this activities list and schedule of events for more information. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Story Cart\n\n\n\nStory Cart is a mobile story collection program that travels to community spaces and engages Milwaukeeans in conversations about their lived experiences. Our Story Fellows craft questions related to the current C21 research theme\, record participant responses to those questions\, and add them to our Story Cart digital archive (forthcoming). Supported by the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue\, Story Cart’s current run introduces Milwaukeeans to practices of radical attention. From September 2025 through May 2026\, our community Story Fellows will lead workshop pop-ups throughout the city and will record discussions with participants about the experience of paying attention.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/crystal-quest/
LOCATION:Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum\, 3209 N. Maryland Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Attention,Co-Promotional,Exhibit,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Story Cart,Students,Students,UWM Campus Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Center for 21st Century Studies":MAILTO:c21@uwm.edu
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