Artist-Theorist working w AI since 2022. Scenographer | Artistic Director since 2000. Building Architectures of Agency @ Quantum Craft institute

NYC
Joined March 2011
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The AI Art Magazine documents artistic practices with and through AI, preserving something of the present in each printed edition. That record begins with an open call. What is taking shape in studios and across screens, in sustained practices as well as experiments whose direction is still unfolding, can find its way onto these pages when artists choose to share it. For Number 4, artists are warmly invited to submit one work and a few words about its making, whether an image, a moving image, a spatial work or a system. There is no set theme, and submitting is free. Around 50 works will be selected by an international jury for the printed edition. 28 September to 1 November 2026. Details and submissions through the link in bio. #no4 #opencall #theaiartmagazine
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Most of the work leaves no public trace, so I started logging it 2023 → 2026, in one scroll…
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Next signals: Oct 14 · APF MENA Futures Majlis #5, Future Ancestors: Building Counter-Protocols for SWANA Futures Oct 17 · Garrison Institute | Acosta Institute on AI & Our Spiritual Imagination
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If cognition can be conditioned, can it be rewilded? Future Ancestors via adversarial protocols disrupting systems of domestication from within #samaritual #futureancestors #quantumcraft
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EVERYONE IN NYC IS SINGING EMPIRE STATE OF MIND
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This week, artists Wafaa Bilal, @mollycrabapple, @FendeVilliers and @Samaritual debate labor, intent, craft and class in contemporary art. Moderated by @Nadir_Nahdi.
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This week on the Doha Debates Podcast, we ask: Do we need to rethink contemporary art? Featuring Wafaa Bilal, @mollycrabapple, @FendeVilliers and @Samaritual. Moderated by @Nadir_Nahdi. 1:57 Time to rethink contemporary art? 4:59 Contemporary art: more relevant than ever? 5:45 What is the role of the artist? 6:45 Craft, labor and AI 10:32 Wafaa Bilal's viral “Domestic Tension” experiment 21:23 Lasting vs. fleeting art 22:16 Contemporary art institutions and the new Left 25:15 "Generative AI is an extraction engine. It is a vampire." 27:16 AI: a problem or just misunderstood? 29:22 Who has the right to define what is or isn’t art? 42:07 Postmodernism, craft and aesthetics 45:43 Is inaccessible art a revolutionary act? 51:09 Bad art: Is capitalism to blame? 1:01:11 Artist’s ego, craft and authorship 1:45:37 Success, tech & cultural preservation 2:03:11 “The ability to create art is divine.” 2:12:34 Experts share their favorite works of art
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The impact of AI feels inescapable. Will it usher in more possibilities or problems for artists? Hear what acclaimed artists @mollycrabapple and @Samaritual have to say.
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The future of contemporary art is not a tech question. It's a provenance question. We got into it 🌪️
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El Anatsui makes art from what was discarded and left behind after the crossing. That's the whole argument…. The episode we filmed on the Future of Contemporary Art in the age of AI is finally out 👀
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On the latest episode of the Doha Debates Podcast, artists Wafaa Bilal, Molly Crabapple, Fen de Villiers and @Samaritual share the works and artists that have struck them the most.
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Tayfurat: طيف specter, spectrum, ghost-light that persists. Khabrein: knowledge that travels and changes form in transit. unfolding over the next 9 days on @the_ai_art_mag instagram.com/p/DX4qoMAiktL/…
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Where does art live when everything can be generated? Future Ancestors Radio: Resonance 001 Brooklyn ↔ Beirut. A live session in the form of digital zajal/cypher where sound leads, the body responds, and the room composes together luma.com/pz2q4pok
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YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE: Legendary New Orleans clarinetist Doreen Ketchens serenades her grandson with a beautiful jazz tune 🥹❤️
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My forever jam!
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Fragment 021: Analog Accumulations A Visual Essay on momentum, cultural generation, and how we find our way back to making when the system feels too loud and the body feels too tired Image: artifact from my Future Ancestors series: ‘Not Cloud White’ 😉
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