The Creativity in the Age of AI series continues with a talk by Paul Catanese: "Spectral Imprints: Sentient Pluralities and Unhuman Art."
Catanese will discuss artistic co-creation with artificial intelligence(s), sharing works-in-progress, as well as his vision of what it means to be a hybrid media artist. Catanese will also address a selection of prior projects in order to provide a sense of context and trajectory for these new works. The goal of the presentation is to spark a conversation regarding processes, concepts, challenges, concerns, and observations that shape artistic creative practice in light of the shifting and ever-expanding terrain of artificial intelligence(s).
Catanese is a hybrid media artist whose diverse range of works include installation, performance, sound, video, and print media. His artwork has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Chicago Cultural Center, New Museum of Contemporary Art, SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, La Villette, China Academy of Art, Frankston Art Center, Stuttgart Filmwinter, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and ISEA. His awards include an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2014), Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Artist-In-Residence at Colgate University (2018/19), and Fulbright Scholar to Poland (2024). He is the author of Director’s Third Dimension (2001), and co-author of Post-Digital Printmaking (2012). Collections include the Center for Art + Environment Archives at the Nevada Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Catanese is a Professor at the School of Visual Arts at Columbia College Chicago.
This event is made possible by the IU Presidential Arts &Humanities Discretionary Award and in partnership with the AI+Digital Futures Team and the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design.
