Future Art Ecosystems 4: Art x Public AI

About Alasdair MilneEva JägerGary Zhexi ZhangVictoria Ivanova

Victoria Ivanova is R&D Strategic Lead within the Arts Technologies team at Serpentine where she leads on the Future Art Ecosystems initiative and has been instrumental in developing creative R&D infrastructure and activity. She also does research and consultancy on organisational systems and institutional design. Victoria has previously worked in human rights and founded Izolyatsia a cultural centre in Donetsk Ukraine which has been expropriated by a Russian militia in 2014 and consequently turned into a torture facility. Eva Jager is Curator of Arts Technologies at Serpentine gallery in London. She commissions artists working with advanced technologies and is a collaborator in teams designing novel approaches workflows and philosophies of emerging tech. During her time at Serpentine she has worked with artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst Jenna Sutela Hito Steyerl Suzanne Treister Jakob Kudsk Steensen Trust 0rphan Drift Kite Keiken Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Libby Heaney Gabriel Massan and dmstfctn. Eva is also part of the team working on Future Art Ecosystems as a researcher for the annual briefing and as co-investigator of the Creative AI Lab (Serpentine R&D Platform and King's College London).Gary Zhexi Zhang's works explore systemic connections between cosmology technology and economy. He operates individually in collaboration and within organisational frameworks. He recently edited a book of fictions essays and interviews about finance and time Catastrophe Time! (Strange Attractor Press 2023). Dead Cat Bounce the opera he co-created with Waste Paper Opera premiered at Somerset House in 2022 and tours in 2024. His most recent film and solo exhibition METAMERS was presented at EPFL Pavilions in February 2024. His works have been shown at Totalab Shanghai; UCCA Dune Beidaihe; Para Site Hong Kong; Inside Out Art Museum Beijing.Alasdair Milne is a PhD researcher with Serpentine's Creative AI Lab and King's College London working across the philosophy of technology and curatorial R&D. He is a research fellow at Gray Area in San Francisco.