Curators & storytellers of the future! Experienced art pros working at the cutting edge of new AI developments share their take aways!
Combining experience and knowledge of cutting edge technology, these experts will share their best 2024 take aways and their observations on the impacts of Generative AI on arts and culture.
Together, these speakers bring over 50 years of global art curation and production experience, combined with lifelong careers of supporting other artists and cultural innovators. They will bring deep expertise to a much needed end-of-year review of the current art, AI, and ethics landscape with a focus on the potential of AI in curating, producing, and promoting various art disciplines. We hope this leaves you inspiration to both use art to address critical global challenges, while empowering artists and designers to stay at the cutting edge of ArtXAI discourse.
With her guests, Anna Shvets and Kate Armstrong, Valentine Goddard will moderate a discussion on potential areas for AI to positively disrupt art or film production pipelines. Bringing Schvets and Armstrong’s solid understanding of the nuts and bolts of curating and producing art, from conceptualizing international projects to managing logistics, and to funding them and promoting the artists, they will share their observations of the current art and AI landscape. Who is doing what and is it working? How can we collectively find a balance between excitement and fear? What actionable strategies could steer the use of AI towards equitable and sustainable futures in art and film production?
Moderator and Speaker's Biographies
Anna Shvets is an art strategist, art manager, producer of international art projects, and independent curator. For 22 years, she has carried out different activities as a producer of cultural projects and curator of contemporary art exhibitions, in collaboration with embassies, institutional and independent spaces in Italy, CIS, Russia, USA, Argentina, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden, Austria, Turkey, Finland, UAE, Egypt, Brazil, India, and Ecuador. She is the founder and CEO of TAtchers’ Art Management, a company offering international Art PR, exhibition management, curatorial services, artist's consulting, and promotion. She is an author of educational programs and articles on contemporary art, art business, art, and new technologies as well as has extended experience as a moderator and speaker of public talks and other events dedicated to contemporary culture. Currently, she is teaching art business at several international universities and working on the AI Hokusai ArtTech Research project as a producer and curator. Her expertise spans contemporary art theory, integrating art with science, business, and new technologies. Her focus on the interplay of art and environmental humanities in unique global locations has marked her as a visionary in her field.
Kate Armstrong is a Vancouver-based artist, writer, and independent curator with over 20 years of experience in the cultural sector with a focus on intersections between art and technology. As a curator she has produced exhibitions, events and publications internationally. She founded the early internet art organization Upgrade Vancouver, collaborated with the Goethe Institut to develop nomadic project space Goethe Satellite, and was an Artistic Director of the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Arts. Kate has served as president of the board of directors at Western Front, curator and board member at New Forms Festival, and is currently chair of the acquisitions committee and trustee of the Vancouver Art Gallery. As Director of Living Labs at Emily Carr University of Art + Design she specialized in cross-sector partnerships and founded the Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship, which helps emerging artists and designers realize complex real-world initiatives, with the goal of updating our broader cultural, social, and economic understanding of the impact art and design-led activities can have in the public sphere. She has exhibited at venues including the Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania), Akbank Sanat (Istanbul), and Miami Art Basel with Refraction DAO. Her work was included in Poeme Objkt Subjkt curated by the Verseverse for Librarie Metamorphose and L’Avant Gallerie Vossen in Paris, which was shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize in Crypto Art. She is currently part of Reimagine Tomorrow, 1954-2024 curated by Expanded.art at the first AI Biennale in Essen, Germany. Her current work and research about impacts of AI on art and design can be found here.
Lawyer and artist, Valentine Goddard is a member of the Canada AI Advisory Council and a United Nations expert on AI policy and governance. She is the founder and executive director of AI Impact Alliance, an interdisciplinary organisation that integrates art-based approaches to the study of the social implications of AI. Ms. Goddard participates in the analysis of emerging AI and data laws and the co-development of sustainable value creation models for digital economies. She designs and leads transdisciplinary programs that link civic engagement, knowledge mobilisation, and policy and regulatory innovation and advocates for the role of arts and civil society in AI and digital governance. She initiates and chairs international expert groups on gender equality and AI, with policy recommendations addressing critical issues for culture, democracy and the Women, Peace, and Security agenda. In 2023, she received the Mozilla Creative Media Award for the Algorithmic Frontiers online exhibit. With the support of the Council for the Arts of Canada and AI Impact Alliance’s members, she leads the AI, Art, Law & Society Resource Cluster including the Art-Laws grants and fellowships.
Registration
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Security, Recordings and Why Make a Donation
Our online conversation will be recorded and shared on the member section of AI Impact Alliance’s member section (the Resource Cluster) in support of artists and arts and cultural organizations. The Resource Cluster serves as a place of research, creation and exchange, and includes the Art-Laws fellowships for artists interested in exploring Generative AI’s social, legal and economic implications. Our guest experts help artists and art organizations anticipate and respond to the imminent challenges presented by AI, by staying abreast of a fast moving technological and legal landscape, and promoting the important role of art and culture in democracies around the world.
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