10:00 – 11:30 AM · Room 1201 · Moderated by Alanna Okun
Five practitioners give short talks on their own work: what they make, what questions it raises, what they still don't know. Open conversation follows.
The Artist Is Absent
Kevin Esherick is a Brooklyn-based conceptual artist and writer whose practice spans philosophy, psychology, and technology. His "latent painting" process disrupts the AI image generation pipeline to surface half-formed images never meant to be seen — a window into the mind of the model. His series Ablation Studies applies this to canonical art history, exploring what it means for images to be consumed, digested, and absorbed by AI systems. Work exhibited at Expanded Art Berlin, Heft Gallery New York, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art History of Generative Systems
Charlotte Kent, PhD is an arts writer and Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Montclair State University, where she heads Visual and Critical Studies. Editor-at-Large for Brooklyn Rail; contributes to Artforum, Wired, and Aperture. Recent books: Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (Intellect Books, 2024) and Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square (Phaidon, 2024).
Afro Algorithms: Bias as Dataset
