2023 Programs

July – August, 2023 Made possible by Montalvo Art Center’s Lucas Artists Program and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Started by Stephanie Dinkins in 2017 as meetings at NEW INC, a New York-based art and tech incubator at the New Museum, AI.Assembly is an ongoing series of intimate, exploratory encounters addressing the question “What does AI need from you?  Since the first AI.Assembly we start with that very question and then expand outward to explore more facets of the technological future. Each AI.Assembly gathering seeks to build fellowship catalyzed by sharing of meals featuring foods that are…

A project of the Indigenous Futures Research CenterMay – June, 2023 Made possible by Montalvo Art Center’s Lucas Artists Program and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Abundant Intelligences Residency will provide a sustained period of individual and collective engagement with creative responses to the challenge of designing AI systems that support Indigenous flourishing. The goal will be to produce future imaginaries that illustrate the abundant diversity of how humans interact intelligently with the world, and to illuminate how such intelligences might be expressed through computational systems. Questions about the ethical design of AI have taken on…