Name: Gen-AI in the Arts - Panel Discussion at Green Space Miami
Start: 2025-04-03T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-03T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Green Space Miami

Let's chat about how AI is shaping the arts scene at Gen-AI in the Arts Panel Discussion at Green Space Miami!
About this Event

Bringing the Outside In explores how our homes become vessels for cultural memory and identity. The exhibition transforms Green Space Miami into an immersive environment where large-scale still life photography merges with site-specific installations, creating a dialogue between interior and exterior worlds. Through a layered visual language of rescued flowers, ancestral textiles, and cultural artifacts, the work examines themes of preservation, migration, and the fluid nature of home, suggesting that "home" is not a fixed place but a constant dialogue between memory, identity, and the spaces we inhabit.

Live plant installation by Tournage (@tournagemia).

Gen-AI in the Arts - Panel Discussion at Green Space Miami

Join us for an exciting panel discussion on the intersection of AI and the arts at Green Space Miami. This in person event will feature experts in the field sharing their insights on how artificial intelligence is shaping the creative landscape. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the impact of AI on artistic expression and innovation. Reserve your spot today!

This event is part of a series of conversations featured throughout the solo show ‘Bringing the Outside In’, by Dahlia Dreszer presented by Green Space Miami. The exhibition will be on view from March - May 17th, 2025.

Speakers

Meaghan Kent, Curator and Deputy Director Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami
Andrew McLees, Art + Digital Innovation Manager at Locust Projects
Rodolfo Peraza, Founder of MUD Foundation
AdrienneRose Gionta, AI + Human Collaborator/Researcher and Oolite Artist Alumni
Mike P, Gen-AI Leader at Amazon Web Services

Moderator: Dahlia Dreszer, Photographer, AI Artist, Tech Specialist

Meaghan Kent is the Deputy Director at MOCA North Miami. Kent is also an Independent Curator, Writer, and Adjunct Professor in Art History. Previously, Kent worked as the Curator of Exhibitions at the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood in Florida. She was the Founder of Site95, an organization that holds exhibitions in available spaces including Locust Projects, Abrons Arts Center, and public outdoor spaces in Miami and New York. Kent was also a gallery director for fifteen years where she managed the careers of internationally emerging and established artists and coordinated exhibitions locally and worldwide. She co-founded Páramo in Guadalajara, Mexico, and directed off-site projects at The Mistake Room in Los Angeles, Casa Pedregal in Mexico City, and El Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños in Oaxaca.

Meaghan Kent's expertise in AI includes curated exhibitions and seminars on the evolution of technology in artwork. Kent's most recent exhibition, Visions, showcased artwork at the intersection of art and technology. With the experimental photography work of Silvia Lizama used as the foundation, the exhibition highlighted technological art as a significant and ongoing transformation in our cultural landscape. Artists, such as d[NASA]b, Richard Garet, and Tiffany Trenda, use digital tools and AI to push the boundaries of traditional media, creating dynamic, interactive works that engage audiences in new and innovative ways.

Andrew McLees is an arts professional, marketing specialist, software developer, and creative practitioner with extensive experience developing holistic digital engagement strategies for mission-based nonprofit organizations.

He is currently the Art + Digital Innovation Manager at Locust Projects, Miami’s longest running alternative arts incubator, where he leads the Knight Digital Innovation Initiative supported by the Knight Foundation. At Locust Projects, Andrew is responsible for integrating technology into the creation, presentation, interpretation, and experience of art by local, national, and international artists. His expertise spans strategic leadership and innovative arts programming, fostering impactful connections between technology, art, and audiences.

Prior to joining Locust Projects as Art + Digital Innovation Manager, Andrew worked as the founding Senior Marketing Manager at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, where he provided strategic communications and marketing leadership in advance of opening the museum’s new permanent home in the Miami Design District in 2017. At ICA Miami, Andrew developed the foundational communications, marketing, and social media strategies used to introduce regional audiences to the work of renowned international artists including Thomas Bayrle, Terry Adkins, Sondra Perry, Betye Saar, and Alex Bag, among many others. With support from the Knight Foundation in 2018, he expanded the museum’s digital production to include a new platform for original scholarship, artist documentaries, extended-reality experiences, video games, Web3 initiatives, and a Webby-nominated podcast, Tomorrow is the Problem. Andrew has guest lectured on arts ecosystems at the cutting edge of technology and community engagement at Locust Projects (2024), Homework Gallery, Miami (2021) and DMINTI’s online metaverse platform (2022). Andrew has also served as the inaugural Grants and Communications Manager at Bakehouse Art Complex, a storied organization providing South Florida’s most vulnerable artist communities access to free and subsidized workspace.

Rodolfo Peraza, Founder of MUD Foundation. He is a Cuban-born multimedia artist who works between Cuba and the US. His work focuses on public spaces, both virtual and physical, as well as DataVis of matters related to the Internet culture and the footprint it leaves in society.

Peraza is the founder of Fanguito Estudio in Havana (2009). In 20013, he launched the VRLab for the development of browser-based VR technology. The VRLab is devoted to both explore and promote the intersections between data, art, and the internet. Peraza also created MUD Foundation (Miami, 2016) to advance the intersections between art and digital technologies by implementing artistic and educational programs.

Peraza holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts from The University of Arts of Cuba (Instituto Superior de Arte). His work has been exhibited internationally at events such as SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles California; the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida; the Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Art, Havana, Cuba; the XII and XIII Havana Biennial; Künstlerhaus, Vienna; the Jumex Collection, Mexico City, among others. His work has also been included in the AGO Museum, Toronto, Canada, and the JUMEX permanent collections. Among other recognitions, his project Pilgram: Naked Link 2.0, received the Cannonball’s WaveMaker Grant.

AdrienneRose Gionta, AI + Human Collaborator/Researcher and Oolite Artist Alumni. Brooklyn-born and Florida-raised artist, AdrienneRose Gionta is currently the 2025 Wolfsonian Creative Fellow in Miami Beach, FL, The Storefront Artist in Residence at The Main Library for April and May 2025, and was recently an Artist in Residence at Oolite Arts (2023–2024). Her solo exhibitions include It Is What It Is (Art Basel, Miami Beach), Somewhere I Belong (Art and Culture Center, Hollywood), You Light Up My Life (Tunnel Projects, Miami), The Future is Fat Female (FATVillage Metaverse), Never Before Seen (Locust Projects, Miami), and Everything’s Coming Up AdrienneRoses (Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami). Gionta has participated in group exhibitions at venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Spinello Projects; David Castillo Gallery; Dimensions Variable; and online platforms like Loop Art Metaverse and Foreign Objekt. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum and the Girls' Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale, as well as in private collections. She has received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists, the Artists Support Grant, and the Betty Laird Perry Award. Her work has been reviewed in Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, ARTnews, Artsy, The Wall Street Journal, and artdaily.org.

Mike P. is a Miami native specializing in AI, Crypto, and Digital Transformation. With extensive experience working across multiple industries, Mike helps businesses at any scale build novel solutions and navigate the complexities of modern digital infrastructure.

Having witnessed the evolution of AI from traditional machine learning applications to today's generative capabilities, Mike is particularly fascinated by how AI now creating content across images, sounds, and literature - opening doors for a new technological revolution.