Alexander Mordvintsev, Haro Cumbusyan & Yariv Adan

Developer and artist Alexander Mordvintsev, collector and social entrepreneur Haro Cumbusyan and developer and investor Yariv Adan speak in the context of the exhibition AAA Experiments. All three are passionate about so-called 'AI art' and see great potential for art therein, which they wish to develop in the future. Mordvintsev, who presented Google DeepDream in 2015, and Adan, who lead the development of innovative AI products at Google, will offer informed insights into current uses of AI, while Cumbusyan presents his perspective as a media art collector.

The talk will take place in English.

These talks are public and free; they take place on Thursdays between the 10 October and 19 December 2024, starting each week at 7 pm.

Yariv Adan is an investor in early-stage AI startups at future-fund.ai, and passionate about everything AI, especially on the junction of AI and Art. Previously he spent 17 years at Google as a Senior Director of products, where he led the development of cutting-edge AI products for consumers and businesses.

Haro Cumbusyan is a social entrepreneur and a collector of media art. For the past 20+ years, privately and through his participation in acquisition committees of public institutions, he has been involved in collecting art that uses digital technologies. Haro is particularly interested in AI for its potential to expand human capabilities and perspectives, as well as for the questions it raises around creativity, authorship and ethics.

Alexander Mordvintsev is a researcher, artist and engineer working in the fields of Collective Intelligence and Artificial Life. His main contributions to the field is the introduction of the Neural Cellular Automata model. Earlier Alexander delved into Deep Neural Networks, seeking to understand their operation mechanisms. This exploration led to the creation of Google DeepDream in 2015, a programme that amplified patterns detected by neural networks to generate psychedelic images.