13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music
The Media Lab's Opera of the Future group and AHA research program invite you to a special talk by Jennifer Walshe, Irish composer, performer, and professor of composition at the University of Oxford.
In this talk, Walshe explores the intersection of music, art, and artificial intelligence. Over the past decade, she has created a body of work that is by turns playful, anarchic, and thought-provoking—from training an AI on a bespoke dataset of her own vocal performances (ULTRACHUNK) to reimagining the early history of Western music using machine learning (A Late Anthology of Early Music, Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance).
Her long-form essay, "13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music" (published by Unsound in 2024), offers a unique framework for considering AI-generated art, suggesting that we view such works from multiple perspectives—sometimes as fan fiction, sometimes as an energy drink, and much more.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from one of today’s most original and provocative voices in experimental music and AI art.
Free and open to the MIT community
Co-hosted by Opera of the Future and the AHA Research Program
This in-person event will also be available via live stream using the Zoom Webinar link below. For more info, contact Clémence Taillandier).