Algorithms, Aesthetics, and the Art of Collaboration

Algorithms, Aesthetics, and the Art of Collaboration: a discussion on how AI is reshaping and redefining artistic expression, production, and curation in the digital age. Eileen Isagon Skyers: Artist and curator Eileen Isagon Skyers has nearly a decade of experience producing online exhibitions at non-profit and contemporary arts institutions including David Zwirner, Rhizome and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Through recent roles in curation and creative direction for various web3 platforms, she has conducted extensive research on contemporary digital art and culture in an effort to understand the community-building potential for artists working on the blockchain. Skyers's own moving image work has been exhibited in the US, UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Mexico. Her first book, Vanishing Acts, looked at the role of network-based art practices, and her writing has been published in Frieze, Hyperallergic and Dirt, among other publications. Cory McAbee: Cory McAbee is a writer, director, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, animator and illustrator. His music and films have won awards worldwide. He has developed and directed an eight-year global collaborative which concluded with the completion of the feature film, Deep Astronomy and the Romantic Sciences. He has given lectures, panel discussions, symposiums and masters classes on art, alternative media and the collaborative process at conferences and universities throughout the world.