Find out what the artists behind the works in the exhibition Coded Dreams have to say about Tulpamancer and The Golden Key, both presented at the PHI Centre.
"Over the last year and a half, Matthew and I have been collaborating in doing a lot of work exploring the aesthetic and creative potential of emerging AI tools. [...] Doing so constantly asking how it may change the way we see the world, relate to one another and experience things around us."
– Marc Da Costa
"Our practice really focuses on interactive and immersive experiences as an artistic form, and especially on using machine learning technology for customized narrative storytelling interactions. So we're using these new AI tools in order to understand how they're trying to get to know people, how it can elicit personal narratives based on their input and it's what is driving a lot of our work right now."
– Matthew Niederhauser
"When it comes to thinking about the relationships between art, technology and society, (...) It feels like things around us are changing very quickly and in ways that we don't fully understand. A lot of our practice is focused on trying to create new context for people to experience and think about and engage with these emerging technologies."
– Marc Da Costa
Centre
An immersive exhibition that encourages you to explore the frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) through two unique and captivating experiences
Centre
An immersive exhibition that encourages you to explore the frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) through two unique and captivating experiences
Marc Da Costa is an artist and anthropologist whose work explores the relationship between emerging technology and lived experience. Da Costa’s artistic research and interactive installations examine how data and technical infrastructures focus our attention on the world in particular ways and, in so doing, shape the structures of experience available to us. Da Costa’s anthropological scholarship has explored these themes through studies of placemaking practices in the Anthropocene, with particular focus on Antarctic research expeditions and critical cartography. Da Costa’s work has been exhibited widely in the US and Europe and his writing on the intersection of data and society has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, VICE and elsewhere.
Photo: Lauren Duque
Matthew Niederhauser is an artist and educator. His work pushes the limits of emerging AI and XR technologies within a wide range of mediums. He studied anthropology at Columbia University before earning his MFA in Art Practice from SVA while also a Pulitzer Center Grantee, Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology (CAST) and Member of NEW INC. At NEW INC he cofounded Sensorium, an experiential studio working at the forefront of immersive storytelling. When not focusing on projects that have premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Sundance New Frontier, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and IDFA DocLab, he teaches at NYU Tisch and Tandon. Most recently, Matthew became the Technical Director at Onassis ONX in New York.
Photo: Matthew Niederhauser
Foundation
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For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer’s work has paired text and installation to examine personal and social realities
