New Museum and Rhizome Reveal 7x7 Artists for 2024
Tomás Saraceno and Lynn Hershman Leeson are among the artists who will partner with technologists to make something new inspired by AI.
Rhizome's former Executive Director, Zachary Kaplan, at 7x7 in 2019.
Digital art advocates Rhizome and the New Museum have announced the participants in next year's Seven on Seven (7x7).
7x7 pairs artists with technologists and sets them a challenge: to make something new. Their creations are then presented in a public conference reminiscent of TED Talks.
This time collaborators have been asked to consider how AI may alter our understanding of love, humour, and improvisation; biology, politics, and histories.
Rhizome Co-Executive Director Michael Connor said that 7x7 2024 would take an expansive but critical view of the technology's role in society.
'The participants look beyond the dreams of apocalypse and the endless drive to extract, and ask, what new kinds of collaborations and entanglements will AI enable?' he said.
Among the pairings, Tomás Saraceno will team up with Nym Technologies' Harry Halpin, and Lynn Hershman Leeson will partner with Replika AI's Eugenia Kuyda.
Other participating artists include Miriam Simun, Xin Liu, and Rindon Johnson.
Past 7x7 projects include the creation of the first NFT by Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash in 2014 and Image Atlas (2016), a visual search engine made by programmer Aaron Swarz and artist Taryn Simon that showed image results for the same searches in 17 different countries.
Among the many high profile artists who have participated in 7x7 since 2010 are Qiu Zhijie, Ai Weiwei, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl, Miao Ying, Petra Cortright, and Avery Singer. —[O]
