Jake Elwes on A.I. Art and Queering the Dataset

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Madison Beale interviews artist Jake Elwes about the intersection of A.I. and art, exploring how technology influences artistic expression.

Can Artificial Intelligence be art? And if yes, can it be good? Today on the Artalogue, Madison Beale sits down with artist Jake Elwes to discuss their art practice, as an early adopter of A.I., using it to challenge how we think about the world and technology through their artwork. Elwes does't separate art and tech, instead they use it as an innovative and generative medium. Elwes creates diffusion models that transform faces, words, and gestures into code. Bias, embedded into the dat...

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Host: Madison Beale

Guest: Jake Elwes

Topics covered

• A.I. art
• queering the dataset
• art and technology
• innovation in art
• generative art

Keywords

• Artificial Intelligence
• art practice
• diffusion models
• bias in data
• generative medium

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Organizations: A.I.

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