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Gen Systems For Art
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| With Mario Klingemann (Artist-in-Residence, Google Arts & Culture Lab), Christiane Paul (Curator of Digital Art, Whitney Museum), Casey Reas (Artist). |
| Cooper Union, 7 E 7th St, The Great Hall |
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Apr 24 (Thu) , 2025 @ 06:30 PM
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This event will be conducted in-person in The Great Hall & through Zoom.
For in-person attendance, please register in advance here.
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.
Join us for a conversation with Casey Reas & Mario Klingemann, two pioneers in generative & AI art, in discussion with Christiane Paul, Curator of Digital Art at The Whitney Museum of American Art. This event is part of The Cooper Union's annual Discussion on Generative Art & Architecture, a series that delves into the evolving nature of creativity-both human & machine-driven-and the impact of technology on artistic expression. Organized by professors Sam Keene & Benjamin Aranda.
Casey Reas is an artist & educator exploring algorithmic & material systems across a range of media & scales. His groundbreaking work is matched only by his generational influence as the creator of Processing, an open-source programming language for the visual arts he initiated with Ben Fry. Reas is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles & holds a masters degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Media Arts & Sciences.
Mario Klingemann is recognized as a pioneer in the field of AI art, neural networks & machine learning. As artist in residence at the Google Arts & Culture Lab & continuing to this day with Botto, an autonomous artist he helped establish, Klingemann uses algorithms & artificial intelligence to create systems that create art. He is particularly interested in the human perception of art & creativity.
Christiane Paul is Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art & Professor Emerita at The New School. She is the recipient of 2023 MediaArtHistories International Award & the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art. Her latest books are Digital Art (4th ed., 2023) & A Companion to Digital Art (Blackwell-Wiley, 2016). At the Whitney Museum she curated exhibitions including Parting Worlds / Hyundai Terrace Commission: Marina Zurkow (2025), Harold Cohen: AARON (2024), Refigured (2023), & Programmed: Rules, Codes, & Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018 (2018/19) & is responsible for artport, the museum's portal to Internet art. Other curatorial work includes Chain Reaction (feralfile.com, 2023), DiMoDA 4.0 Dis/Location (traveling show, 2021- ), & The Question of Intelligence (Kellen Gallery, The New School, NYC, 2020).
The historic Great Hall has long been a stage for groundbreaking ideas & pivotal dialogues. Don't miss this chance to witness a compelling exchange at the intersection of art & technology.
This events is free & open to the public. Registration is required.
Located in The Great Hall, in the Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street, between Third & Fourth Avenues
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