Art and AI could cover a lot of ground depending on how you understand “AI” (given a tenuous separation to blockchain) so here some writings and talks that center some of the questions surrounding more overt automation practices and softwares…

Forthcoming:

  • Chair— Processes of Memory: Digital Practices and Re-Membering Histories. College Art Association, February 12. 2.30-4pm EST.

  • “Beyond Spectacle: An Emergent Aesthetic Regime with AI” in Generation Image, edited by Katharina Weinstock and Matthias Bruhn. Das Digitales Bild.

Exhibition Catalogs

2024

  • “Muses, Musing, Modeling and Models: Meandering with Tim Kent.” Tim Kent: Edges Off a Model. Hollis Taggart. September 12-October 12. https://www.hollistaggart.com/publications/128-tim-kent-edges-off-a-model/

  • “Nobody is Here aka Outis Arrives and Nemo Appears.” Damjanski: Magenta Elephants. Office Impart, Berlin. June - July 14. https://officeimpart.com/damjanski-magenta-elephants

  • “Gardens and Processes,” Casey Reas: Wet and Saturated Processes. UNIT London. 24 April – 25 May. https://unitlondon.com/2024-04-19/casey-reas-garden-of-earthly-delights/

2023

  • “A Flowering of Aesthetic Contemplation.” Anna Ridler: New Works. Nagel Draxler. Berlin, Germany. 15 September – 1 November. https://nagel-draxler.de/exhibition/time-within-time/

  • “Material Information: Insular and CU Soon.” Nye Thompson: Vertigo. East Quay Watchet with Lumen Art Projects. Watchet, England. 20 May – 3 September. https://nyethompson.net/vertigo/Material-Information-Kent.html

  • “Machines and an Aesthetics of the Absurd.” Alexander Reben: Delusions of a Time Traveling Cactus. bitforms. 6 September – 28 October.

  • “Landscapes for Lilypads.” Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Technologies, 15 May – 15 October. Nxt Museum. Amsterdam. https://nxtmuseum.com/nxtnews/exhibition-essay-landscape-for-lilypads-by-charlotte-kent

Magazine Articles, Interviews, & Reviews

2024

  • “Taking Stock of Generative “AI”: Systematic Work of Michael Mandiberg, Trevor Paglen, and Penelope Umbrico.” The Brooklyn Rail, November.

  • “Novel Protocols for Networks and Agency.” The Brooklyn Rail, October.

  • “Generative Film’s Potential: Eno" The Brooklyn Rail, September.

2023

  • “We Have Tried to Warn You: From Climate to AI” The Brooklyn Rail, October.

  • “The Play’s the Thing,” The Brooklyn Rail, September.

  • “A Word or Two on Art and Technology” The Brooklyn Rail, May.

  • “Some Questions Surrounding Robots and Rivers,” Art Papers, Spring 2023. 56-59

  • “Art’s Intelligence: AI and Human Systems” The Brooklyn Rail, April.

  • “How Will AI Transform Photography?” Aperture, March 16.

  • “Past and Present for a Creative Future,” The Brooklyn Rail, March.

2022

  • “Embodied Broadcast: Slipstream Times Square” ArtLab. August 22.

  • “Beyond the Janus-Faced Typologies of Art and Technology,” The Brooklyn Rail, July/August.

  • “Brendan Dawes and the Art of Lost Time: An Interview,” Right Click Save, June 17.

  • “Vera Molnár: Searching for Humanity in the Machine,” Art Review. June.

  • “In Conversation: Herbert Franke and Charlotte Kent,” The Brooklyn Rail, June.

  • “Technelegy by Sasha Stiles,” The Brooklyn Rail, May.

2021 “Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art at the Albright-Knox Museum,” The Brooklyn Rail, December/January.

2019 “Carla Gannis: Asserting Her Selfie,” Artist Magazine, March, 36-43.

Talks & Panels

2023

  • Moderator — “Conceptual Art and Synthetic Photography in the Age of AI” with Kevin Absoch, Sofia Crespo and Anna Ridler. Paris Photo. November 9, 6pm CET.

  • Moderator — “Creativity Unleashed: Harnessing the Power of Art & Tech for Lasting Impact” with Carolyn Roylston and Alfredo Salazar-Caro. Qatar America Institute for Culture, Impart Summit. Washington D.C. October 14, 6-7.30pm EST.

  • "Voidopolis: New Technology and the Photobook.” International Center for Photography at Photo Fair, NYC. September 8. 2PM EST.

  • “Art by Fiat: A Critical Aesthetics for Large Model Generated Images.” Generation Image, HfG Karlsruhe and ZKM Center for Art and Media, July 13-14.

  • “A Word or Two on Art and Technology with Tina Rivers Ryan, Clara Che Wei Peh, Doreen Rios, Margaret Wertheim, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Kay Watson and Charlotte Kent.” New Social Environment, The Brooklyn Rail. May 30. 1pm EST

  • “In Conversation with Christiane Paul and Charlotte Kent,” New Social Environment, The Brooklyn Rail. May 4. 1pm EST.

  • “Erica Cardwell, Phd and Charlotte Kent, PhD in Conversation” Art Papers Instagram Live. May 3. 3pm EST.

2022

  • “In Conversation with Shezad Dawoud and Charlotte Kent,” New Social Environment, The Brooklyn Rail. October 7. 1pm EST

  • “In Conversation with Ian Cheng and Charlotte Kent,” New Social Environment, The Brooklyn Rail. September 2. 12pm EST

2021 “A New Era of Democracy with Charlotte Kent and Fred Turner,” RadicalXChange December 16, 2021. Video: 0:29:39-1:21:50

2020 Telematic Media Arts. “Art, AI, and Absurd, with Carla Gannis, Ahmed Elgammal, and Charlotte Kent,” October 3rd. 5pm EST.

2019

  • Columbia University Center for Science and Society and the National Arts Club present “Is AI the Future of Art?” May 30, 5-8pm.

  • “Schismatic Technics: Visualizing Systems from 1600 to Present,” panel: Metaveillant Issues, College Art Association. New York, NY, February 17-21.

2018 “On the Face of It: Carla Gannis and The Selfie Drawings,” Digital Cultures: Knowledge/Culture/Technology Conference. Lüneburg, Germany, September 19-22.