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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. Featuring Eileen Isagon Skyers and Cory McAbee.

Eileen Isagon Skyers

Eileen Isagon Skyers is a writer, curator, and artist with a decade of experience specializing in media art. Skyers has been at the forefront of groundbreaking online exhibitions and digital programming at prestigious venues like David Zwirner, Rhizome, and the Whitney Museum. Working with organizations like Foundation, Feral File, and Friends with Benefits, she has successfully led projects with distinguished partners like the Museum of Modern Art, LVMH, Sotheby's and Uniswap. She is also the author of Vanishing Acts, a book that delves into network-based art practices as a critique of seamless and undetectable interface technologies. Her writing has appeared in publications like Spike, Hyperallergic, Frieze, and the Net Art Anthology. In spring 2023, Skyers delivered a TED talk titled “In the age of AI art, what can originality look like?” The presentation covers how AI can stretch the scope of human imagination and help create worlds we could never design alone.

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. He has documented the birth of monarch butterflies and has participated in collecting migration data. In 2013 McAbee followed the monarch butterfly migration from Chicago IL to El Rosario, Michoacan Mexico as a collaborator for a documentary created for German television. In 2022 he followed the monarch East Coast migration path from Maine to Florida on a bicycle as part of the project, I_Butterfly. McAbee has recently completed a new screenplay that was inspired by his experiences with I_Butterfly. That screenplay is now available as a book.