Entangled Realities – Human thinking and machine thinking

Join  Experimenta alumni artist and researcher Professor Anna Marie Munster, researchers Aaron Driver from the University of New England and Danielle Morton the founder of Zondii, for a discussion on the creative opportunities and social implications of artificial intelligence. How can and should two different intelligences meet? The panel will discuss the current uses and limitations of AI in the arts and sciences. They will also look at the opportunities and challenges on the horizon.

The event will be hosted by Experimenta Life Forms Curators Jonathan Parsons and Lubi Thomas, who will chair the discussion and provide an introduction that locates the subject of artificial intelligence within the broader themes examined within Experimenta Life Forms. The opening reception for Experimenta Life Forms will be held at the conclusion of the discussion.

Speakers

Professor Anna Marie Munster  

Experimenta Make Sense alumni artist
Presented artwork titled Pull (created in collaboration with Michelle Baker) 

https://experimenta.org/artworks/pull
https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-anna-marie-munster 

 Professor Anna Marie Munster is currently Deputy Director, National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA). She is an active researcher with two sole published books: An Aesthesia of Networks (MIT Press, 2013), and Materializing New Media  (Dartmouth College Press 2006). She also edited Immediation I and II ( OHP Press 2019). Her current research interests are: statistical visuality and radical empiricism, the politics and aesthetics of machine learning, more-than-human perception, new pragmatist approaches to media and art, new media art environments and ecologies; time, movement and sonicity. 

 Anna regularly collaborates artistically with Michele Barker. Barker and Munster have been working in multi-channel audiovisual environments exploring the relations between perception, movement and media.Their most recent work was the solo show, all the time in the world, 2019 for Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney. In 2017, they were commissioned for a multichannel audiovisual environment, pull, for Experimenta Media Arts: Make Sense, 2017–2020. They have been awarded New Work Grants, in 2012 and 2010 from the Australia Council for the Arts to realise their work.  

Danielle Morton is the CEO of Zondii delivering disruptive Agri-Food Tech tools for authentication and traceability. Zondii has patented world’s first technology and is empowering producers and supply chains to test produce real time with their smartphone.

Aaron Driver began his career in journalism at the then Fairfax, before transitioning to politics. He later taught marketing in France and founded his own agency in Australia. He is now a lecturer at UNE Business School, where he teaches marketing and conducts research on narrative persuasion and behaviour change in the areas of climate change and biosecurity. Currently, Aaron is actively engaged in UNE’s response to generative AI.

This event is being presented by Experimenta and NERAM, in partnership with the University of New England’s Smart Region Incubator.

Image: UTAS Special Arts Forum: Eco-Sustainability in Arts Practice (2021)