Panel: Art Meets AI

Explore how artists are engaging with artificial intelligence to spark creativity, generate new ideas, and expand the boundaries of artistic practice. Panelists will share short talks—some with examples of their work—before joining in a moderated conversation about innovation, imagination, and the evolving role of AI in the arts.

Quinn Keck [they/them] is a multidisciplinary artist and data scientist working across code, printmaking, installation and writing to create dialogues on the human experience.  They use their data science skills in their artistic practice through creative coding and participatory projects to discuss perception, memory and ethical issues in AI.   Instead of portraying just the physical form of people, places, and objects, Quinn abstracts layers to discuss identity, memory, perception, and grief - exploring the absurdity of making patterns in a chaotic world in their work. 

Audrey Kim is the founder of Misalignment AI Museum, a 501(c)3 cultural institution designed to increase knowledge of Artificial Intelligence for the purpose of elevating public discourse and understanding, preserve and archive AI technology and explore its capacities as an artistic medium. Playful and thought-provoking art installations showcase AI and encourage reflection on the possibilities of the technology’s relationship with art and society. The Misalignment AI Museum was rated “#6 of things to do in San Francisco”, has been featured on every major news and media publication and held pop-up exhibitions at TEDTalks, the American Alliance of Museums, PwC, as well as offsites for companies such as OpenAI, Adobe, Meta, Google and SFMOMA and tours for groups ranging from students and teachers to diplomats.

Ash Herr is @empowa online, an artist whose work explores personal growth influenced by the evolving internet. She is the founder of tiat.place, a nonprofit arts organization creating intersections for art and technology in San Francisco. She runs Creative Futures Counterstructures, an artist residency advancing critical and creative perspectives on AI in partnership with the Mozilla Foundation.

Paul Henry Smith is a conductor, product designer, and technologist whose work bridges classical music and artificial intelligence. He founded the Fauxharmonic Orchestra, the first digital orchestra to perform a full Beethoven symphony live in concert, and created Cadenza, an AI-powered accompaniment app recognized by Apple as “Best New App.” A former MIT Media Lab researcher, Smith has worked on AI product design at Amazon and Tanium, and now leads Symphonic Laboratory, a series of workshops and performances that bring people and AI together through music.