DATE:Monday, September 16, 2024 at 09 a.m. to 4 p.m.
LOCATION:Bovard Auditorium (ADM)
Subject：A Symposium on AI and the Arts co-curated by USC Vice Provost for the Arts Josh Kun and renowned contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang.
Beyond the Human?: From the Metaphysical to the Physical
A Symposium on AI and the Arts
Presented by USC Arts Now
Co-sponsored by USC Visions and Voices and the USC Center for Generative AI and Society
ADMISSION & CAMPUS ACCESS:
Admission is free. Reservations are required. Campus access is limited to registered guests and USC students, staff, and faculty with current USC ID.
DESCRIPTION:
Co-curated by USC Vice Provost for the Arts Josh Kun and renowned contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang, Beyond the Human?: From the Metaphysical to the Physical is a daylong symposium that explores the impact of AI on the arts.
Speakers and performers will explore questions including:
> What is the role of the artist in a computational future?
> What are the promises and perils of AI’s expansion of what it means to be human?
> What is AI’s potential for moving us beyond human exceptionalism into realms of inter-species and inter-materialist consciousness?
> Can AI move us beyond a singular self?
> How does AI impact our sense of the physical?
> How does AI imagine and enact the metaphysical?
> How can artists use AI to build new worlds?
Order of Speakers (subject to change):
9 a.m.: Morning Session
– Welcome by Josh Kun
– Cai Guo-Qiang
– Catie Cuan
– Burçin Becerik-Gerber
– Zoë Hitzig
– Aroussiak Gabrielian
– Troy Therrien
12:05 p.m.: Lunch
Lunch isgenerously provided by Tigawok, powered by Next Robot AI Cooking Robot. Please note that lunch tickets are limited and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis at the event check-in.
1:05 p.m.: Afternoon Session
– Refik Anadol
– Minne Atairu
– Kira Xonorika
– Harry Yeff aka Reeps100
– Nancy Baker-Cahill
Pop-up film screenings will be curated by Holly Willis, USC professor of cinematic arts.
Related events:
Daytime Fireworks by Cai Guo-Qiang
WE ARE: Explosion Event for PST ART
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Commissioned and presented by Getty, in collaboration with USC.
For more information, click HERE.
Cai Guo-Qiang: A Material Odyssey
Tuesday, September 17, 2024–Sunday, June 15, 2025
USC Pacific Asia Museum
Co-organized by Getty and the USC Pacific Asia Museum.
For more information, click HERE.
Information reprinted from [Event Details | USC Visions & Voices] & [Cai Guo-Qiang | Welcome to Cai Guo-Qiang (caiguoqiang.com) ], copyright belongs to the original author.
