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Thinking with Plants and Fungi
Thinking with Plants and Fungi seems the perfect way to start the summer. While I’m attending this conference in person, there is a livestream for anyone who wants to attend remotely. This conference convenes scholars from across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences together with artists, culture keepers, and practitioners to explore how plants and…
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Frank AI Lab
You asked for it, we’re on it! 🙂 On Wednesday, May 21, 2025 over 70 participants joined the Frank AI Lab for an evening to connect, create, and get curious about AI. Event Announcement: We’ll learn from AI experts like Mike Lannen, Katrina Wagner and Jenn Karson who will unpack myths, spark imagination, and show how…
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What are the aesthetics of high performance computing?
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Understanding Artists’ Perspectives on Generative AI
This 2019 Machine Learning workshop and invitation to work with UVM’s high performance computing center was my first hands-on introduction to machine learning. Three years before the public launch of ChatGPT, it was the beginning of a journey and practice that continues to this day. While 5 years isn’t that long, starting visual research with…
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Can AI Make Art?
Public Philosophy Week 2025 With Juniper Lovato, Jennifer Karson, and Julia Zimmerman As generative AI transforms creative industries many critical questions arise: Can AI truly create art? Does the creation of art require agency? How does AI impact artists’ creative autonomy, ownership, and fairness in the artistic landscape? We will talk about our recent research…
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AI, Nature, and Art
Where do AI, the natural world, and digital art meet? We explored this rich terrain through The Generative Tree exhibition and programming with Champlain College Professors Kristin Wolf, Ariel Burgess, and their students! The following photo essay tells the story.
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The Generative Tree
The Generative Tree exhibition has been….Generative! Check out the documentation over at the Plant Machine Design website and read the Seven Days Newspaper review.
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Unusual Partnerships Between Humans and Machines
Aberrant Creativity is an international, juried exhibition exploring the boundaries between our machines and ourselves. It is an opportunity for artists to challenge AI, to seduce AI into creative partnership, or lead it astray into play and joy.
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Navigating Latent Space
Here’s a look at latent space mapping and discovery with the Athena Dataset; we experienced this mathematical space as a new physical world, as new terrain and territory.
There’s lots to share.