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SGN x Cohort - Art After AI
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| Patrick McAndrew (Actor & playwright, The Startup & Terms of Service), Michael Tay (Writer & filmmaker), Matthew James Scott Lee (AI-safety Enggr), Isaac Ting (Product Designer). |
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Sep 14 (Mon) @ 06:30 PM
FREE
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When a machine can make anything - any image, any text, any song - what can only be made in a room?
That question has never been more urgent. Live performance just posted its strongest seasons on record - audiences are paying more than ever for what can't be streamed, copied, or regenerated - even as AI floods the market for everything that can. What survives the flood, & what do we owe the people who still make things by hand?
This is the question behind "Art After AI," a free evening on the Lower East Side built like every good Cohort night: not a lecture, not a pitch - four people in honest conversation, then the conversation opens to the room.
In the conversation: four people who each live on both sides of that line.
Patrick McAndrew - Moderator & Panelist. TV host, actor & playwright - his musical The Startup had a sold-out run at The Flea, & his solo show Terms of Service won the award for Best Fiction at the 2024 United Solo Theatre Festival. He also advises companies on responsible AI & founded the Future of Entertainment Alliance, a think tank examining how AI reshapes storytelling & creativity - & he moderates tonight's conversation.
Michael Tay - Panelist. Singaporean writer & filmmaker (Columbia MFA; creator of the International Emmy-nominated series FAM!). A grant to develop a rom-com about a computer vision scientist for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation started his engagement with AI. Since then, he's explored what the technology can't replicate: live, embodied work. His one-man play Mom & I Go to the Temple opens at The Tank this week.
Matthew James Scott Lee - Panelist. Filmmaker & AI-safety engineer, he first started his career in film in London, before retraining as an AI researcher at UCL. Now Chief Development Officer at Poseidon Research, a New York lab working to prevent AIs from covertly communicating, he is artist & engineer in one practice with both a TV drama about autonomous weapons & a novel about superintelligence in development.
Isaac Ting - Panelist. A product designer who both builds & studies AI systems - 7+ years of design experience, AI-powered systems shipped in the public sector before grad school, & now a Masters at NYU Tandon researching human-AI interaction: how context & memory shape conversations with AI, & how better safeguards keep them aligned with what people actually need.
No sides to take, no debate to win - there are no pure artists on one side & pure builders on the other: everyone on stage works the line between what machines can make & what only a body in a room can. They work through it in front of the room, then open it to everyone in it.
Food, drinks & venue sponsored by Singapore Global Network.
BONUS: Register & stay through to the end to stand a chance to win one of three pairs of free tickets to "Mom & I Go to the Temple", an original play by horror writer & Sundance alum Michael Tay, debuting the same week: https://tickets.thetanknyc.org/EventAvailability?EventId=155801
WHO'S IT FOR? Idea people. Founders. Builders. Creatives. Researchers. The Curious. Artists wondering what AI means for them - & tech people wondering what liveness means for the rest of us.
FORMAT: ~45 minutes of moderated conversation, then an open mixer over drinks - the kind of room where people actually meet & make things happen. Free, strictly non-profit.
"Art After AI" is co-hosted by Cohort NYC, supported by Singapore Global Network. ~50 guests. Lower East Side.
ABOUT COHORT NYC
Cohort is a space & home for ideas, & the people who think about them, create new ones, & build things from them. Many of us are founders, builders, artists, researchers, & their supporters here in NYC. Our goal is to turn the city into a campus after college. We hold idea & discussion events, coworking events for support & accountability for those building & creating things, & pure social events build genuine relationships & community.
ABOUT SINGAPORE GLOBAL NETWORK
Singapore Global Network (SGN) is a division of the Singapore government's Economic Development Board (EDB). SGN's mission is to build a global community with Singapore at its heart, creating meaningful connections between members.
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