PANEL: The Genrefication of AI – From Critical Encounters to Artistic Practice

This panel features Montréal-based Mexican AI artist Isabella Salas; Hexagram artist/researcher and author of MIT Press’s Art in the Age of Machine Learning , Sofian Audry; Sónar+D and S+T+ARTS AI and Music Festival curator José Luis de Vicente; the curator of the first LATAM AI biennale, Julieta Agriano; and will be moderated by MUTEK AI Art Lab facilitator Peter Kirn. Together, they will explore the shifting role of AI in artistic practice, from serving as an object of critical investigation to the proliferation of AI art and music as artistic genres. Can artistic practice maintain its criticality towards AI despite its aesthetic and technological genrefication? What role does the proliferation of AI as an artistic genre play in upholding common narratives of technological advancement straight out of Big Tech's marketing playbook? How does the commercialization of digital artistic practices through cryptocurrencies and NFTs drive AI-generated art? What role does curation play in the genrefication of AI and its associated narratives? generated art?

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