Highlight The Promises and Perils of AI LASER at Meow Wolf
Channel: SciArt Santa Fe
Date: 27/10/2023

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Highlight of The Promises and Perils of AI for Artists, Scientists + Everyone In-between: Sara Morawetz, Zac Travis, Patrick Manning with Viola Arduini at Meow Wolf

Sara Morawetz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the processes that underpin scientific action. She approaches experimental investigation as a way of thinking and working, and aims to deconstruct the underlying processes of methodological labor – to explore the exhaustive, the obsessive, the poetic, and the absurd inherent within scientific activity. The Australian-born, New Mexico-based artist has collaborated with scientists from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Centre, NY, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA). Sara was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of Sydney in 2021 and has received numerous awards and prizes including: ‘the churchie’ National Emerging Art Prize, the Vida Lahey Memorial Travelling Scholarship, the Moya Dyring Studio Scholarship, as well as project funding from the Australia Council for the Arts. Her work has been featured in publications including Frieze Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Scientific American, Aesthetica Magazine, Artist Profile, and Prime: Arts Next Generation recently released by Phaidon Press. In 2019, Sara spoke at TEDx Sydney about her monumental performance project, étalon, which saw her walk from Dunkirk to Barcelona for 112 days in search of the meter.

zac travis is a media-based artist, educator, musician, and designer whose research is at the intersection of art and technology. travis works with images, video, audio, and text using automated processes, algorithms, machine learning, and chance operations. travis intervenes in systems of power dynamics while addressing the sociological influence of digital media and the internet. While also collaborating with new and obsolete technologies, travis is primarily interested in the ‘anomaly’ that occurs when autonomous and invisible technologies are broken down and made visible. travis currently lives, creates, and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he received his MFA from the University of New Mexico in 2019. In 2014, he received his BFA in Photography from the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. travis’s work has been exhibited internationally, including his most recent solo exhibition, love me love me bot, at Antecámara de Proyectos, Museo de Art de Ciudad Juárez. He has participated in group exhibitions such as Portable Document Format, an online exhibition in conjunction with Doug Aitken’s Electric Earth at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. He is the recipient of the Dallas Museum of Art Awards to Artists.

Patrick Craig Manning is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico. Born in Seattle, WA, he received degrees in photography and archeology from the University of Washington and his MFA from the University of New Mexico before going on to teach as a professor at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. His photographic, digital, and video work invokes loss to explore the intersection of representation, language, and history and has been exhibited at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Eiteljorg Museum of Indian and Western Art, and galleries from coast to coast.

Viola Arduini (moderator) is an Italian artist, researcher, and educator who exploresthe relationship between humans, the ecosphere, andtechnology. She uses a variety of media, from photography to computer science,from biology to writing, to create paths that connect art to science, and thehuman to the more-than-human. Viola received a Bachelor of Arts from NABA New Academy of Fine Arts, Milano, (Italy),a Master of Arts in Documentary Photography from the University of South Wales,Newport (United Kingdom), and a Master of Fine Arts in Art & Ecology fromthe University of New Mexico in 2019. She is also a current student in the Biotechnologyprogram at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque (USA).

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