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  • Thinking with Plants and Fungi

    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…

  • Frank AI Lab

    Frank AI Lab

    You asked for it, we’re on it! 🙂 Join us for an evening to connect, create, and get curious about AI for creatives. We’ll learn from AI experts like Mike Lannen, Katrina Wagner and Jenn Karson who will unpack myths, spark imagination, and show how humans – with all our insight, instinct and originality – still…

  • What are the aesthetics of high performance computing?

    What are the aesthetics of high performance computing?

  • Understanding Artists’ Perspectives on Generative AI

    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…

  • Can AI Make Art?

    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…

  • AI, Nature, and Art

    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.

  • The Generative Tree

    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.

  • Unusual Partnerships Between Humans and Machines

    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.

  • Navigating Latent Space

    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.

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