Beth Coleman

She is Associate Professor of Data & Cities at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. She is the co-founder of SoundLab Cultural Alchemy, an internationally acclaimed multimedia art and sound platform. She has a history of international exhibition including venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Musée d’Art moderne Paris. She has held artist residencies at Recollets, Paris, and Waag, Amsterdam, and Pioneer Works, among others. She had published the monograph Hello Avatar (MIT Press) along with numerous articles. Her art publications include collaborations with Ellen Gallagher, Chris Ofili, and Parkett. Her research affiliations include Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, the Data & Society Institute, New York, and Google Brain. A 2021 Google Artists and Machines Intelligence awardee, she is currently working on the exhibition and book “Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds” (K Verlag, Berlin).

Projects:

• AI.Assembly CoLAB
• Open Access: AI.Assembly