About J. Rosenbaum
J. Rosenbaum is a Melbourne AI artist and researcher working with 3D modeling, artificial intelligence and extended reality technologies. Their work explores posthuman and postgender concepts using classical art combined with new media techniques and programming.
J has a PhD from RMIT University in Melbourne at the School of Art exploring AI Perceptions of Gender and the nature of AI generated art and the human hands behind the processes that engender bias, especially towards gender minorities. Their artwork highlights this bias through programmatic interactive artworks and traditional gallery displays. They speak at conferences worldwide about the use of artificial intelligence in art and have exhibited all over the world. J’s artwork has been supported by the City of Melbourne Covid-19 Arts Grants and has won the Midsumma Australia Post Art Prize.
J works with classically inspired aesthetics with the latest technologies to create a speculative future grounded in the aesthetics of the past to show that gender minorities have always been here and will continue into the future.
Artist Statement
Worlds within worlds, I am drawn to the notion that my works are a glimpse into a speculative future, where digital and the real meld together to create something greater than we are now. That machines will learn to think and pass the singularity and that humans will grow and change and merge alongside them until we cross a digital frontier and it all merges with our own. Where gender binaries no longer matter and nothing counts beyond the mind and thought and creativity. When we are no longer constrained by our bodies and our antiquated notions that some genders or races or abilities are superior.
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Selected Exhibitions
2024
- Execute_Photography – RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
- Set In Stone, Knox Immerse – Knox Library, Knox, VIC
2023
- Breaking the Binaries – Science Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
- ACMI + RMIT – ACMI, Melbourne, VIC
- NEURIPS Art Gallery – Louisiana, USA
- Epoch Loop – The Loop, Hobart, TAS
2022
- AI Perceptions of Gender – Melbourne Fringe Festival
- AI Perceptions of Gender – Stockholm Fringe Festival
- And/Or – Queertech.io and ACMI
2021
- Sending You My Love – Playform and Artsy, Online
- Midsumma Australia Post Art Prize – No Vacancy, Melbourne, VIC
- Gertrude St Projection Festival – Center for Projection Art, Melbourne, VIC
2020
- Future Histories – Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, Ivanhoe, VIC
- The new (ab) normal – RMIT Gallery Online
- OCCCA 40th Anniversary – Orange County Center of Contemporary Art, CA
- Clouds: The 6th International Exhibition on New Media Art 2020 – CICA Museum Busan
- Frankenstein’s Telephone – Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne
2019
- Uncanny Valley: Fringe – Fringe Hub Trades Hall, Carlton, VIC
- Knox Immerse Festival – Swinburne Gallery 369, Knox, VIC
- Nuit Rose – MARS Discovery District, Toronto, CA
2018
- VVitchVVavve – Siteworks, Brunswick, VIC
- Hidden Worlds: Fringe – Testing Grounds, Southbank, VIC
- [un]natural – WestEnd Art Space, Melbourne, VIC
- Beyond the Binary – Gasworks Art Park, Albert Park, VIC
2017
- Beyond the Binary – Testing Grounds, Southbank, VIC
- Provocare Festival Augmented Reality Exhibition – ArtBoy Gallery, Prahran, VIC Midsumma Australia Post Art Prize – Fort Delta, Melbourne VIC
2016
- Art Masters Exhibition – Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank VIC
2015
- Proud 2015 – Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne VIC
- Joy to the Other World – VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne VIC
Education
- 2016 Master of Contemporary Art Faculty of the VCA and MCM, University of Melbourne VIC
- 2023 PhD AI Perceptions of Gender RMIT School of Art
Awards and Collections
- 2017 Midsumma Australia Post Arts Prize
- 2016 Fiona Myer Award
- 2012 Finalist International Art Competition A.R.T Revolution Taipei
- Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2010 Public Collection, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
Speaking Engagements
2023
- Roll For Initiative, – Programmable Melbourne, VIC
Roll For Initiative, Gender Tapestry- PyConAU Adelaide, VIC
2022
- Roll For Initiative: how to make the world of AI a more ethical place LCAOnline, VIC
- Critical AI UNSW Symposium Online, NSW
- Artist Talk, AI Perceptions of Gender Online, Stockholm
2021
- Imaging Futures online symposium Melbourne, VIC
- Femmes and Thems online symposium Melbourne, VIC
- Gertrude St Projection Festival Technology Talk Melbourne, VIC
2019
- The Art of Making Art with Machines: AWS Community Day Melbourne, VIC
- Hidden Worlds: Body of Knowledge Burwood, VIC
- AI and AR; a Match Made in Heaven: VoxxedDays Sydney, NSW
- AI and AR; a Match Made in Heaven: VoxxedDays Melbourne, NSW
- AI and AR; a Match Made in Heaven: YOW! Data Sydney, NSW
- AI and AR; a Match Made in Heaven: LCA 2019 Christchurch, NZ
- Mixed Reality and Art: LCA 2019 Christchurch, NZ
2018
- Mixed Reality and Art: JuniorDev Meetup Melbourne, VIC
- Mixed Reality and Art: DDDMelbourne Melbourne, VIC
- Creepy, Frivolous and Beautiful Art made with Machines: PyCon Sydney, NSW
- My Work with AR: MediaLAB Melbourne Melbourne, VIC
- The Future of Art: Keynote – VoxxedDays Melbourne Melbourne, VIC
- The Future of Art: Devoxx UK London, UK
- The Future of Art: Keynote – Art+Tech LCA Sydney, NSW
2017
- Art-ificial Intelligence: Buzzconf Ballan, VIC
- The Future of Art: YOW Data Sydney, NSW
- RealworldVR – Arts Edition Melbourne, VIC
- Mixed Reality and Art: Buzzconf Nights Melbourne, VIC