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Alt-AI Conference Marks 10-Year Anniversary of Early Creative AI

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Today is the 10 year anniversary of Alt-AI! Alt-AI was a 3-day conference in NYC hosted by @sfpc and curated by me, exploring the then very niche field of creative AI. Lots of amazing artists and people participated, including talks by @mtyka @hdeweyh @RebeccaFiebrink @quasimondo @aparrish @golan @arnicas @bwhitman. There was also an exhibition with early AI art by @kcimc @memoakten @dribnet @hardmaru @schwittlick_ @xululululuuum and many others. I had never thought about organizing or curating before, but when @zachlieberman asked me to put it together, I thought I might never get another chance to put a roster like this into one room together, so I went for it. I'm still grateful and nostalgic for these days when this technology was so new weird and unexplored.

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It's crazy to look back on how all of us talked about this stuff 10 (!) years ago.

All the talks were recorded here: https://alt-ai.net/#watch

This interview series is gold and shows a lot of the art that was made for the exhibition.

Gene KoganGene Kogan@genekogan

Today is the 10 year anniversary of Alt-AI! Alt-AI was a 3-day conference in NYC hosted by @sfpc and curated by me, exploring the then very niche field of creative AI. Lots of amazing artists and people participated, including talks by @mtyka @hdeweyh @RebeccaFiebrink @quasimondo @aparrish @golan @arnicas @bwhitman. There was also an exhibition with early AI art by @kcimc @memoakten @dribnet @hardmaru @schwittlick_ @xululululuuum and many others. I had never thought about organizing or curating before, but when @zachlieberman asked me to put it together, I thought I might never get another chance to put a roster like this into one room together, so I went for it. I'm still grateful and nostalgic for these days when this technology was so new weird and unexplored.

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