[python-events] Event Submission :: Taken by Artificial Surprise - Magic, Surprise & Machine Learning Opens July 28 in NYC

[Helio Loureiro]

Hi Jeanette,

Not sure your event fits the Python User group guidelines to be added.
There is direct mention regarding python.

Best Regards,
Helio Loureiro

On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 16:52, Jeanette Andrews <
jeanetteandrewsstudio at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> Photo: Ari Isenberg
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> Taken by Artificial Surprise
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> Magic meets machine learning in this installation and performance series
> by
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> Jeanette Andrews at Culture Lab LIC
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> On View: Thursday, July 28 - Sunday, July 31, 2022
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> Performances: 7:30 pm (Approximately 20-30 minutes)
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> COST: Free (reservation required)
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> RESERVATION:
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taken-by-artificial-surprise-tickets-340798446327
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> LOCATION: CultureLAB LIC: 5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, New York, NY
> 11101
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The Artist:
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> 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.
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> JeanetteAndrewsStudio.com <https://www.jeanetteandrewsstudio.com/>
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> @JeanetteAndrewsMagic <https://www.instagram.com/jeanetteandrewsmagic>
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> About Culture Lab LIC
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> @culturelablic  <https://www.instagram.com/culturelablic/?hl=en>
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> https://www.culturelablic.org/
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> 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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