Name: Busting It Out - The “Other“ AI
Start: 2024-10-09T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-09T21:30:00-04:00
Location: NYU Tandon BLDG 22

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Join Guggenheim Fellow James Scruggs, Lumen Prize winner Nouf Alijowaysir, and Fulbright Scholar Ellen Pearlman to explore their award winning art works on the “Other” AI- the misaligned and mismanaged worlding of current mega AI systems societies of control, information voids, exclusions and quantifications of immeasurable proportions too complex to be undone.

Each artist will present their provocations for 20 minutes followed by a Q&A. The talks take place inside the W Lab's motion capture studio so bring along a snack as we dive into the world of artificial intelligence beyond the mainstream by busting it out!

**BIOGRAPHIES**
**James Scruggs** is a writer, performer and producer creating topical, interactive, theatrical work usually about race, racism and inequity. He was just recently been awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. In March of 2024, work in progress excerpts of his interactive **The American Truth and Reconciliation Commission** play was commissioned and web streamed live by HERE Arts Center, NYC. It was commissioned by The Perelman Arts Center. He was awarded an NPN Creation Fund Grant for ***OFF THE RECORD: Acts of Restorative Justice*** (2022) to be performed in NYC, Boston and Tampa in 2025. In addition to the theatrical component ANOTHER aspect of this work will be the production of criminal record sealing clinics in the above cities. His \*\*\*3/Fifths SupremacyLand \*\*\*(2017) was a fully functional, interactive Ethno-Theme-Park exploring racism. “*Immersive theater routinely makes audience members uncomfortable, but Mr. Scruggs is on a level all his own with **3/Fifths SupremacyLand”**… “Visually and conceptually, “**3/Fifths SupremacyLand**” is extraordinary”*…says **The NY Times** May 2017. It was awarded a 2015 MAP Grant and a 2016 Creative Capital Grant. His ***Trapped in a Traveling Minstrel Show*** (2017) was an authentic deconstructed blackface minstrel show performed in Boston. **The Bay State Banner** said “*Writer James Scruggs wrenches the audience out of their comfort zone and into the hilarious, haunting and tragic center of the lives of two black men, framed through a minstrel show. Right from the start the show shocks.”* It received an Elliot Norton Award. He has a BFA in film from School of Visual Arts. https:[www.jamesscruggs.com](http://www.jamesscruggs.com/)

**Nouf Aljowaysir** is a Saudi new media artist examining the underlying logic of artificial intelligence from a personal and intimate lens. Her work sparks dialogue about systems of control behind technological innovations by questioning our relationship and power dynamics with machines. She has exhibited projects in galleries and festivals globally, including Centre Pompidou, Museo Tamayo, CPH:DOX, Tribeca Film Festival, and others. Her latest film Where Am I From? (2022) premiered at IDFA and was recently released with The New York Times Op-Docs series. https://www.noufaljowaysir.com/

**Ellen Pearlman** is a New York based media artist, curator, writer and critic. A Visiting Research Scholar at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering she is a New Works Artist Grantee at Harvestworks, a presenter at Expanded Animation Ars Electronica, a Senior Research Professor at RISEBA University in Riga, Latvia, a Contributing Editor to Performance Arts Journal (PAJ) MIT Press, a Research Fellow at MIT, Fulbright Scholar to the Department of Mathematics and Informatics at The University of Warsaw, Poland, a three-time Fulbright World Learning Specialist in Art, New Media and Technology, an EU Vertigo STARTS Laureate, a Zero1 American Arts Incubator/U.S. State Department cultural envoy to Kyiv, Ukraine, and a Luman Prize finalist in AI Moving Images, Ellen served as the Director and co-founder of ThoughtWorks Arts, a global research and innovation lab that includes the well regarded ThoughtWorks ArtsResidency https://epmexico.wixsite.com/ellenpearlman

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