[python-events] Event Submission :: Taken by Artificial Surprise - Magic, Surprise & Machine Learning Opens July 28 in NYC
Jeanette Andrews
jeanetteandrewsstudio at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 10:51:31 EDT 2022
Hello Python events team!
Would love to have this work included in the Python events calendars, etc.
as some of the original coding for the work was done in py.
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High res images:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bzDNIJIkqDB9l_3Oy63l6r9xExh-Bbtu?usp=sharing
Photo: Ari Isenberg
Taken by Artificial Surprise
Magic meets machine learning in this installation and performance series by
Jeanette Andrews at Culture Lab LIC
On View: Thursday, July 28 - Sunday, July 31, 2022
Performances: 7:30 pm (Approximately 20-30 minutes)
COST: Free (reservation required)
RESERVATION:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taken-by-artificial-surprise-tickets-340798446327
LOCATION: CultureLAB LIC: 5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, New York, NY
11101
Jeanette Andrews presents a performance and installation series exploring
the relationships between magic, machine learning, and surprise. It
welcomes attendees to step inside a thought experiment – a Turing Test of
sorts. The performance aspect of this work highlights historic pieces of
magic presented alongside algorithmically generated magic with varying
levels of surprise, and participants might find themselves a bit unsure as
to which may be which.
In 1950, pioneering mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing wrote
the seminal paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." He drew
inspiration from Victorian-era parlor games to imagine his own parlor-style
amusement, the imitation game. This inspired the now-famous Turing Test and
utilized the question, "can a machine take us by surprise?" as a way to
investigate artificial / computational intelligence. Taken by Artificial
Surprise explores historic parlor magic to examine hierarchies of surprise
and the human creation of surprise as compared and contrasted to that of
machines. What might performances of the seemingly impossible demonstrate
about the capabilities and limitations of both machine learning and the
human mind? Andrews invites participants to think about what constitutes
the experience of surprise itself and whether surprise is a unique,
defining factor of human consciousness. The work also highlights how the
mechanisms to create surprise lie deep within the gaps of lived and learned
experience and are perhaps made using the ontological commitments and sense
data of robust personal and cultural experiences. The work may also provoke
questions as to whether a computer or a human is capable of producing more
surprising results. Andrews also notes that, “this project was inspired by
my time as an Affiliate at metaLAB (at) Harvard. During this time I was
fortunate to have encountered a diversity of ideas and research, and discourse
with metaLAB members also greatly assisted the ideation process.” This work
is made possible by Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. and the New York State
Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New
York State Legislature.
The Artist:
Jeanette Andrews (1990) is a New York City-based artist, magician, and
researcher. Andrews’s work focuses on the development of interactive magic
and sensory illusions via performance, sculpture, installation, and audio.
Over 27 years of specialized study and technical training in parlor and
sleight-of-hand magic has now afforded her a distinct perspective on
crafting experiences with nuanced, surreal visuals and on designing objects
that function completely differently than they appear. Her research-based
process centers around phenomenological philosophy, contemporary cognitive
science, and physics. Work is rooted in highlighting astonishing aspects of
everyday life via moments of the seemingly impossible. Themes have included
invisibility, impossible objects, the relationship between scent and magic,
unseen communication, and how illusions can construct reality. Andrews
works closely with museums and galleries to recontextualize magic within
the cultural arts and explore this craft as a performance art medium. She
has presented numerous commissioned works with the Museum of Contemporary
Art Chicago, including her 2020 work “Invisible Museums of the Unseen,”
which was later commissioned as a site-specific work for the Quebec City
Biennial. Further site-specific works for numerous museums and galleries
include the Elmhurst Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art and International
Museum of Surgical Science. Andrews is also an acclaimed speaker,
presenting with the Cooper Hewitt, Chicago Ideas Week, Fortune 500
companies, and universities and conferences across the country. She is an
artist-in-residence for CultureLab LIC and has held residencies at High
Concept Labs in Chicago and The Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los
Angeles. She is an Affiliate of metaLAB (at) Harvard. Illusion is Andrews’s
life’s work and her performances have been praised by the Chicago Tribune,
PBS, and the New York Times.
JeanetteAndrewsStudio.com <https://www.jeanetteandrewsstudio.com/>
@JeanetteAndrewsMagic <https://www.instagram.com/jeanetteandrewsmagic>
About Culture Lab LIC
Culture Lab LIC is a 501(c)(3) formed to bring accessible, high quality art
of all genres to our community, and to support local artists by providing
rehearsal, performance, exhibition space, as well as a robust residency
program. CL is dedicated to upholding, equity, diversity and inclusion
across all our platforms.
Operating out of a 12,000 square foot art center, Culture Lab LIC hosts two
fine art galleries, a 90 seat theatre, classroom space, and an 18,000
square foot outdoor venue, made possible by the generous donation of space
from Plaxall Inc. CL is honored to host more arts programming than any
other organization in New York City. Culture Lab is more than a venue, it
is the heart of Long Island City.
A very special thanks to Plaxall Inc. <https://www.plaxall.com/> for the
donation of this amazing space and supporting us in turning it into this
cornerstone of arts and community activity!
@culturelablic <https://www.instagram.com/culturelablic/?hl=en>
https://www.culturelablic.org/
This project was also made possible with funds from the Statewide Community
Regrant program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with
the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and
administered by Flushing Town Hall.
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