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Generative AI technologies raise the specter of radical change in the creative arts. But disruption can drive creativity and catalyze innovation. Our panelists, Joshua Meyer and Ziv Epstein, will explore the ethics of authorship and the effects that new AI technologies will likely have on creative industries. This event will be moderated by Xavier Symons. Co-hosted by the Human Flourishing Program.
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Artist Joshua Meyer is known for his thickly layered paintings of people, and for a searching, open-ended process. “These aren’t so much portraits as they are depictions of intimacy,” suggests the Boston Globe. Meyer has been recognized with a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a CJP Arts and Culture Impact Award, The Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, as well as the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Painting Fellowship. The Cambridge, Massachusetts artist studied art at Yale University and The Bezalel Academy, and has exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, including Eight Approaches at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Tohu vaVohu at Hebrew College, and Becoming at the Yale Slifka Center and NYU Bronfman Center and the retrospective Seek My Face at UCLA’s Dortort Center. Meyer is represented by Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown and Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco.
Ziv Epstein is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. In his research, he seeks to bring a (more-than-)human-centered approach to the design of sociotechnical systems. In particular, he focuses on translating insights from design and the social sciences into the development of generative AI and social media platforms. Ziv has published papers in venues such as the general interest journals Nature, Science and PNAS, as well as top-tier computer science proceedings such as CHI and CSCW. His work has also received widespread media attention in outlets like the New York Times, Scientific American, and NPR. He is also a practicing multimedia artist whose work has been featured in Ars Electronica, the MIT Museum, and Burning Man.
This event is hybrid and open to the Harvard community.