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SUMMARY:Practices\, Not Prophecies: An Interdisciplinary AI Conversation 
DESCRIPTION:Kenilworth Square East Galley\, 2155 N Prospect Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI 53202\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public\n\n\n\nFebruary 18\, 6:00 – 7:30 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nIn response to Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies\, this interdisciplinary panel brings together Shana Ponelis\, Nathaniel Stern\, Brooke Slavens\, and Ilya Avdeev for an open\, practice-driven conversation about what it actually means to work with AI today. Rather than rehearsing familiar hype or fear narratives\, the discussion centers on lived experience across art\, design\, engineering\, and research—where AI creates real opportunities\, introduces tangible risks\, and is often misunderstood. The panel invites the audience into a candid exchange about agency\, responsibility\, and how we might move beyond spectacle toward more intentional and ethical engagements with intelligent systems.  \n\n\n\nPractices Not Prophecies: An Interdisciplinary AI Conversation is supported by the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. This 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).
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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; opening reception Feb. 12\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-exhibition/
LOCATION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
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