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Event #3: LASER: De-colonizing AI

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A few days ago, I attend the "LASER: De-colonizing AI" in which I learned about different areas of study relating to AI, art, and history that I never have considered. Broadly, the event touched on how AI has introduced new cultural and conceptual frames and ways of thinking. For example, interactive AI has helped minority women share recipes and cooking skills while shaping newly acquired English abilities. This stemmed from AI research students who took the time to design algorithms for teaching cooking. This example made me think more intensely about how AI is quickly integrating itself into our communities, and serving as a problem solver for it.  Another project was created for the purpose of serving disabled children. Unemployed artists, teachers, psychologists, designers, and health workers were recruited to create interactive AI systems to help these children communicate. AI has also been found to create problem-solving tools for people who are hard of hearing and vis

Week 9 Blog

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Allowing outer space and art to interact opens a world for humans to create art about a world of the unknown [IAAA]. Considering that a select few people have experienced space first-hand, the receiving audience of these works also appreciates something of the unknown. This, in my opinion, makes space-centered art so special, because it is our way of expressing appreciation and fascination with something that we likely won't ever be able to experience. An example of this fascination is the popular Van Gogh work "Starry Night" in which the sky, and therefore space, was used to exemplify his deteriorating mental health at the time [Van Gogh]. David A. Hardy - Jupiter from Europa It is not only the idea of space that is involved with art but the science of this other world that is being investigated, as well. For example, Arthur Woods created a space art intervention called the "Cosmic Dancer" Sculpture, which serves as the first three-dimensional artwork conceived