Alt-AI -- Artists and Machine Intelligence

I recently attended #alt-ai, a mini conference on Art and MI organized by Gene Kogan and folks at the School for Poetic Computation (sfpc) in New York City. The event took place in a building that was previously occupied by Bell Labs and was the location of 9 evenings almost 50 years ago. The building later became the Westbeth Artist community (home to many influential and successful artists over the years) and is now home to sfpc. The first day started with a gallery opening (about 14 pieces, many shown on Openframe.io) Gene Kogan gave an intro and a bird's eye view of the sudden explosion of interest in this field over the last year.