Join us in the STUDIO on Tuesday April 1st at 5:30 PM for an artist lecture by Kyle McDonald!

They told us that making art is easy now, anyone can be creative. The machine ate our work, and they don’t need us anymore. Is it all AI slop from here on out? Kyle will give a brief history of how we got here, followed by examples of alternative approaches to using AI, beyond making more pictures of Donald Trump and Elon Musk making out on top of a bloodied planet.

This event is made possible with the support of the 2024-2025 Sylvia and David Steiner Speaker Series, CoDeLab, CMU School of Architecture, and the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.

Bio:

Kyle McDonald is an artist working with code. He crafts interactive installations, sneaky interventions, playful websites, workshops, and toolkits for other artists working with code. Exploring possibilities of new technologies: to understand how they affect society, to misuse them, and build alternative futures; aiming to share a laugh, spark curiosity, create confusion, and share spaces with magical vibes. Working with machine learning, computer vision, social and surveillance tech spanning commercial and arts spaces. Previously adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP, member of F.A.T. Lab, community manager for openFrameworks, and artist in residence at STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at CMU, and YCAM in Japan. Work commissioned and shown around the world, including: the V&A, NTT ICC, Ars Electronica, Sonar, Todays Art, and Eyebeam.