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Trevor Paglen Featured in NYT Article on Art & AI

09 Apr, 2020

Trevor Paglen Featured in NYT Article on Art & AI

BCNM alum Trevor Paglen was recently featured for his work on the subject of surveillance in a New York Times article about art and artificial intelligence.

From the article:

“We live in a world in which things are being sorted into categories that are not inherent in nature,” Mr. Paglen said.

In addition to critiquing A.I., Mr. Paglen has used it to create art. For his 2017 series “Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations,” he created an A.I. system that made a series of images.

“I was making my own training sets,” he said. “I built the taxonomies from scratch.” The resulting works, including a view of what a computer thinks a man looks like, may strike some as a bit spooky.

Read more about Paglen's work and the rest of the article here.