LASER Brussels & LASER CYLAND in Transit in New York:
SYMBIOSIS – Art in the Age of AI
January 25, 2025
The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, 417 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10003
With : Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, Petermfriess, Aernoudt Jacobs, Eunsu Kang, William Latham, Lev Manovich, and Koen Theys.
Chaired by: Alexandra Dementieva
Moderated by: Carla Gannis
Supported by:
FÉDÉRATION WALLONIE-BRUXELLES CULTURE.BE
Flemish Ministry of Culture
CYLAND
This discussion is part of the exhibition SYMBIOSIS: Art in the Age of AI, which opens on January 23, 2025.
Learn more: www.swpk.org/exhibition-symbiosis
We are pleased to present the group show, SYMBIOSIS: Art in the Age of AI, on display at the SWPK Gallery from January 23 to March 29, 2025. The exhibition features works by eight artists: Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, Petermfriess, Aernoudt Jacobs, Eunsu Kang, William Latham, Lev Manovich, and Koen Theys.
Artificial intelligence traditionally aimed to replicate human cognitive abilities like vision, language com-prehension, and problem-solving. Today, however, AI has expanded into simulating human aesthetic capabilities. Currently, millions of people use AI tools to create fiction, compose music, and generate simulated photographs and artworks in diverse styles. This radical technological shift in the realm of human aesthetics prompts many intriguing questions, compelling us to reassess our long- held assumptions and beliefs.
While AI implies technological simulation of human intelligence, its use by artists challenges this notion. Historically, art has been discussed using concepts like skill, imitation, mimesis, and taste, rather than “intelligence.” The emergence of AI in artistic creation prompts us to consider the concept of “artistic intelligence” and its potential meanings, with the artworks in this exhibition offering various perspectives on these questions.
Carla Gannis
Carla Gannis is an American transmedia artist based in New York and a professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Her art is characterized by a commitment to experimentation. Throughout her career, she has worked with an array of mediums and tools, including drawing, painting, video, interactivity, extended reality, and machine learning. Her multilayered narratives explore identity within an atomized and hyperreal 21st-century context – capturing the spirit of our rapidly shifting visual and technological times through blending historical art influences with contemporary digital semiotics and speculative fiction.
Gannis’s work has been exhibited globally in exhibitions, screenings, and internet projects. Her most recent projects include “Networked Nature” at the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN (2024); “wwwunderkammer” at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC (2023); and “Welcome to the wwwunderkammer” at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2022). Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Kunstforum, El PaÍs, ARTNews, Art Forum, The LA Times, among others. She is a Year 7 Alum of NEW INC, in the XR: Bodies in Space track, New York, NY.
Instagram: @carlagannis | Bluesky: @carlagannis.bsky.social | X: @carlagannis
www.linkedin.com/in/carlamgannis/
Alexandra Dementieva
Alexandra Dementieva is a multimedia artist, based in Brussels. Alexandra Dementieva studied journalism in Moscow, USSR, and fine arts in Brussels, Belgium. Her principal interest as an artist is the use of social psychology, perception theory and behaviorism in media installations that combine dance, music, cinema and performance. She organizes LASER Talks Brussels and teaches at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Brussels, Belgium). Dementieva received the first prize for the best mono-channel video at VAD Festival (2005, Girona, Spain). She is a participant of numerous exhibitions in major international cultural institutions, including Rubin Museum (New York, USA), MACRO Museum (Rome, Italy), Centro de la Imagen Museum (Mexico City, Mexico), the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (Russia), and others. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
alexdementieva.org
Anna Frants
Anna Frants is an artist, curator in the field of media art. She graduated from the Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design (Leningrad, USSR) and Pratt Institute (New York, USA). Founder of the nonprofit cultural foundation Cyland Foundation Inc. Cofounder of CYLAND MediaArtLab and CYFEST. She lives and works in Miami, USA.
annafrants.net
Lev Manovich
manovich.art
Petermfriess
petermfriess.com
William Latham
mutatorvr.co.uk
Aernoudt Jacobs
www.aernoudtjacobs.info
Eunsu Kang
Kangeunsu.com
KOEN THEYS
www.koentheys.org
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