Category: Artificial Intelligence

  • So Small And So Hungry…

    So Small And So Hungry…

    So small and hungry! #spongymoth caterpillars make their way into the trees. Tiny caterpillars, leaves, and bites…the beginning of the 2022 Damaged Leaf Dataset (and all that is good, bad, creative, & ruinous in that).

  • Return Of The Spongy Moth

    Return Of The Spongy Moth

    Looks like the damaged leaf dataset will continue to grow this summer…

  • Making Liquid Architectures with the Athena Dataset

    Making Liquid Architectures with the Athena Dataset

    Here’s a video made by the student employees in the UVM FabLab; it shows the work they contributed to fabricating the sculptures in the exhibition, Liquid Architectures and Leaky Territories.

  • 2022 | The Art in Artificial Interview Series

    2022 | The Art in Artificial Interview Series

    When the Vermont Complex Systems Center at the University of Vermont hosted  The Conference on Artificial Life: What Can Alife offer AI? it included a call for artists. The Art in Artificial is an interview series with some of these artists, conducted by Jenn Karson and students from the UVM Art + AI Research group.…

  • Installation Shots From Liquid Architectures and Leaky Territories

    Installation Shots From Liquid Architectures and Leaky Territories

    For the gallery of images follow this link. There are so many people to thank for the great success of the first showing of Liquid Architectures. I’ll highlight the program here but also want to thank University Communications and particularly Bailey Beltramo, Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist, and Josh Defibaugh for exhibition documentation.

  • 2022 – Ongoing | Liquid Architectures and Leaky Territories

    2022 – Ongoing | Liquid Architectures and Leaky Territories

    Photo of 3d-printed printer used to make these prints.

  • Damaged Leaf Dataset

    Damaged Leaf Dataset

    Update Feb 2022: Thank you to the College of Arts and Sciences at UVM for awarding us a Small Grant Award to photograph the leaves preserved for this dataset. Photography will begin in March 2022. Over the summer and fall of 2021, I closely observed the rapid life cycle of the Lymantria dispar, particularly its…

  • Managing the Complexity Of A Collaborative Generative Art Practice

    Managing the Complexity Of A Collaborative Generative Art Practice

    Special shout out to my fellow-presenters and panelists at this year’s College Art Association Annual Conference! It was in inspiring display of innovative digital humanties projects, facilitated by forward-thinking librarians. Appraising Your Research as Data: Managing, Visualizing, and Preserving Your ScholarshipArt Libraries Society of North America2/19/22 Chairs: Kim Collins, Emory UniversityKate Cunningham, University of Buffalo…

  • Exhibition  Announcement: Liquid Architectures and Leaky Territories

    Exhibition Announcement: Liquid Architectures and Leaky Territories

    WHAT:Art Exhibition and Opening Reception forLiquid Architectures and Leaky Territories WHO:Jenn Karson, Lecturer, Dept. of Art and Art HistoryArt + Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Group at UVM WHERE:Francis Colburn Gallery, Williams Hall, University of Vermont72 University Place, 3rd floor. WHEN: Opening Reception + Mini-Print GiveawayMonday 3/21Noon – 1pm307 Williams Hall, UVM Art + Machine Learning…