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Playful Generative Art: Computer-Mediated Creativity and Ephemeral Expressions

January 03, 2017

WEDNESDAY, February 8, 2017
7:00 pm 8:30 pm
Room 1800 (間眅埶AV Harbour Centre)
Fee: Free

Generative art is a blanket term for any creative work produced in part through programmatic or algorithmic means. Playful generative art makes use of highly technical disciplinescomputer programming, statistics, graphic design, and artificial intelligenceto produce chat bots, digital poetry, visual art, and even computer-generated novels. These pieces may be motivated by serious social or political issues, but the expressions are decidedly unserious, often short-lived or quickly composed. Creators working in this medium are rarely artists firstas programmers, designers, game developers, and linguists, they use the tools of their trade in unexpected and delightful ways. Generative art also has much to teach us about issues at the intersection of ethics and technology: what is the role of the artist in a human/machine collaboration; what is our responsibility when we design programs that talk with real people; how do we curate and study ephemeral digital works? Digital artists, writers, technologists, and anyone interested in media studies are invited to attend.

Guest Speaker:

Liza Daly is a software engineer and occasional corporate executive who lives in Boston. She is currently focusing on providing technical assistance to non-profits that work to uphold civil rights and protect vulnerable populations. Her personal projects revolve around digital art, interactive narrative, and digital publishing. Formerly she was CTO at  and prior to that, founded a digital publishing company called Threepress, which Safari acquired. Her new company is . She has been quoted about and the  (NYT, 2010),  (Wired, 2011), and on  (FastCompany, 2015). Liza has presented about  and digital publishing. She wrote a short book on  (OReilly, 2007), which, she says, is out of date so please dont read it.