Name: Generations and Generativity: Post-AI Aesthetics in Practice
Start: 2026-02-12T15:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-02-12T16:30:00-06:00
Location: Kenilworth Square East Gallery

Generations and Generativity: Post-AI Aesthetics in Practice

Get ready to dive into the world of art and technology with a twist at our event - it's all about exploring creativity beyond AI boundaries!
About this Event

Join the Center for 21st Century Studies, artist-technologist Nathaniel Stern, poet-researcher Sasha Stiles, and The Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a panel discussion about the boundaries between human and machine-generated cultural production.

After the panel, catch the opening reception for , a collaborative contemporary art exhibition by Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles.

This exhibition is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies' Aesthetics, Art, & AI series, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).

About

By blending Artificial Intelligence with more traditional artistic expression, Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies cultivates new pathways for imagination while nurturing the roots of our creative inheritance, and the always-evolving dialogue between art and innovation. This groundbreaking exhibition illuminates the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent through an immersive fusion of sculptures, prints, electronics, music, movement, and poetry, all born from creative collaboration with AI.

About

With support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), the Center for 21st Century Studies and the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison are collaborating on a research initiative and series of public programming that focuses the relationship between AI and artistic practice, exploring how AI-generated aesthetics reshape creative production, authorship, and interpretation. By engaging scholars, artists, and technologists, we examine the ethical and aesthetic implications of computational creativity, raising fundamental questions about artistic agency, originality, and the boundaries between human and machine-generated cultural production.