R+V will be hosting an artist in-conversation event for the exhibition Daniel Ambrosi. AI and the Landscapes of Capability Brown.
At the event, the artist Daniel Ambrosi will discuss the exhibition and his practice more widely, and he will be joined by expert panellists Arthur I. Miller (Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London, and author of The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity (2019)), and Steffie Shields MBE (professional garden photographer, writer, historic landscape consultant, and author of Moving Heaven and Earth: Capability Brown's Gift of Landscape (2016)).
Date: Thursday 12 October
Time: 6.30–8pm
Location: Robilant+Voena, 38 Dover Street, London W1S 4NL
Panellist Biographies
Daniel Ambrosi is a California-based visual artist specialising in digital and AI-augmented art. He studied at Cornell University, where he received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Masters in 3D Graphics. During the 40 years since graduating, he has practised digital art, and starting in 2015, with engineering assistance from Joseph Smarr (Google) and Chris Lamb (NVIDIA), developed an enhanced version of Google’s ‘DeepDream’ technology, that has allowed him to create his large-scale immersive Dreamscape series.
Ambrosi’s practice is deeply informed by the history of landscape painting, finding particular inspiration in the works of the grand format landscape artists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and the later nineteenth-century Hudson River School artists.
Ambrosi’s works have been shown in exhibitions and art fairs across the United States and in Europe; his work has recently been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art (MoCDA), and in 2019 he was a finalist of the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology.
Arthur I. Miller is Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at University College London. His critically acclaimed books include the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty that Causes Havoc; Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes; 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession; Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art; and Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art.
A regular broadcaster and lecturer, he has judged art competitions, curated exhibitions on art/science and writes for The Guardian, The New York Times, Scientific American, Wired and Nautilus.
His most recent book, The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity, explores AI and creativity in art, literature and music. His recent play, Synchronicity, recreates the explosive encounters between the analyst Carl Jung and the brilliant but deeply troubled young physicist Wolfgang Pauli.
www.arthurimiller.com, www.artistinthemachine.net
Steffie Shields MBE is a garden photographer, writer and historic landscape consultant. She is a member of Garden Media Guild and Professional Garden Photographers Association, and Cambridge ICE tutor, Madingley Hall (2007-2016).
Steffie is the author of Moving Heaven and Earth: ‘Capability’ Brown's Gift of Landscape (2016) and was advisor to both the national 2016 ‘Capability’ Brown Tercentenary Festival, and the More4 TV series Titchmarsh on Capability Brown. In the same year, she was co-curator, with Hal Moggridge OBE, of the contemporary photography exhibition: Lenses on a Landscape Genius - Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
A Vice President of The Gardens Trust, and Chairman of Lincolnshire Gardens Trust, in 2018 Steffie received an MBE for services to conservation and heritage.
http://www.steffie-shields.co.uk/
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