Talk
Surabhi Saraf & K Allado-McDowell in Conversation
21 May 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 2622 S. LA CIENEGA BLVD.
- Los Angeles
California - 90034
- United States
Please join us Saturday May 21 at 2pm for a screening of Surabhi Saraf's video, Alaap, followed by a conversation with K Allado-McDowell.
About
Surabhi Saraf is a media artist, composer and founder of Centre for Emotional Materiality. Her practice explores our complex relationship with technology using embodiment as a tool and the body as a site for transformation. Surabhi is the recipient of the Eureka Fellowship Award by the Fleishhacker Foundation (2015), the Djerassi Resident Artist Award (2012) and the Artist + Process + Ideas Residency at Mills College Art Museum (2016). She was a 2019 Technology Resident at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and 2020 resident at HarvestWorks, NY.
K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the book Pharmako-AI, and are co-editor, with Ben Vickers, of The Atlas of Anomalous AI. They record and release music under the name Qenric. Allado-McDowell established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI. They are a conference speaker, educator and consultant to think-tanks and institutions seeking to align their work with deeper traditions of human understanding.
