Art & AI in Venezia

With Massimo Sterpi, I’ve co-organized “The Neo-Synthetic: A Dialogue on Art, A.A., and Emergent Aesthetics,” during the opening week of the Venice Biennale at the Home of the Human Safety Net on Piazza San Marco. Featuring Refik Anadol, Michelle Kuo, Lev Manovich, and Eva & Franco Mattes, the event is sold out.

AI & Power

I participated in Lee Rainie’s “Imagining the Digital Future Initiative,” his follow-up to 25 years of running the Pew Internet and American Life project. This year’s topic was – no surprise here – artificial intelligence. Check out the summary or the entire report.

Cryto in LA Review

The Los Angeles Review of Books published my essay on crypto and the history of the American long con.

Launch of .able

Excited to see .able launch this week. I’m on the editorial board and have a piece titled “Solve for (x)Futurisms” in the first issue. This peer-reviewed publication makes research accessible through images. Created at the initiative of La Chaire Arts & Sciences of the École Polytechnique, the École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL, and the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, the journal is published by Actar Publishers. [The image above by UCLA undergraduates in my Design Futures hybrid seminar/studio.]

Crypto and Cons on YouTube

My talk “Null Demos: The Long Confidence Games of Crypto Currencies” from the International Colloquium on Demonstrations sponsored by the Centre de Recherche Français à Jérusalem is online. Thanks to fellow participants and organizers Claude Rosental (CNRS, Paris), Samuel Bianchini (ENSAD, Paris) and Émile de Visscher (Humboldt University, Berlin).

Good Neighbors

Summer Reading

Checked Off the List

Cinema, Alpha to Omega

In the May issue, Artforum published my Focus review of “City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907,” which runs through July 10, 2022 at LACMA.

EcoLA class Podcast

At the UCLA Arts site, Avishay Artsy put together a great multi-media piece about my Winter 2022 DMA hybrid seminar studio on design research. So proud of the work the students did looking at ecological justice, environmental racism, and the political-economy of Southern California over the past half century.

Collage by DMA 160: EcoLA student Janie Wang