AI, Art, and Memory

Join us Thursday, September 19, at 7 pm for a conversation exploring the entanglement of art, artificial intelligence (AI), and memory. The panel will include artist hannah baer (joining virtually), researcher Cynthia Boyton, artist Ed Bateman, and UMOCA Curator of Exhibitions Jared Steffensen. Using the exhibition, In Memory, as a foundation, the discussion will explore AI’s capacity to generate memories, its influence on emotional intelligence, and how it can be used to create images from linguistic prompts.

Space is limited. Reserve your spot now.

Panelist Bios

hannah baer is a writer and therapist based in New York. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Artforum, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She runs the Instagram account @malefragility.

Cynthia Boyton is the co-founder and CEO of Playpen AI, a startup that specializes in raising Digital Minds. The first product is an integrated teaching assistants (TA) for High School English grading. She has a varied background with degrees in Anthropology, Asian Studies and Public Policy from the University of Utah and Carnegie Mellon University. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art she created the data analytics team. As a Contract Specialist at NASA Ames Research Center she won an innovation award for integrating collaboration tools. She helped numerous companies and entrepreneurs as an Economic Development volunteer in Peace Corps Cameroon. She currently lives in Salt Lake City with her husband and two young sons.

Edward Bateman is an artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Utah, where he is the head of the Photography and Digital Imaging area. He received his MFA from the University of Utah in 2003 and joined the faculty in 2008. In 2009, Nazraeli Press released a book of his work titled Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny, which is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University, Art Institute of Chicago, Stanford University, Getty Research Institute, New York University, Columbia University, Amon Carter Museum Library, and George Eastman House, among others. Bateman’s work has been shown internationally in over twenty countries and is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Getty Research, the Pforzheimer Collection of the New York Public Library, Cornell University, Brown University, and others.