Gertrude St Projection Festival 2021
2021-07-21 18:00 - 2021-07-25 00:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Australia’s oldest running projection festival returns in July 2021 to present Past, Presents, Futures. My work Set in Stone has evolved as a large scale projection video work showing the evolution of the neural network through its disruption of gender bias into a series of nested mosaics.
GSPF 2021 curatorial rationale is the vision of Jacob Tolo and hits fast forward to 500 years from here, asking artists for speculative visions far beyond the now and considers the importance of constructs such as colour, race, gender, sexuality, age, ability, class and nationality. People and our environments are the impetus for project responses. How are they manifested in your future? What have you managed to take with you and what have you left behind in this new utopia? Or has it all gone to hell and you want to warn us all of Skynet!?

LCA 2022 - Roll for Initiative: how to make the world of AI a more ethical place
2022-01-01 00:00 UTC
Your team has gathered to fight bias, your tool, AI. How do you muster your forces and all of the abilities at your disposal to fight and slay your fearsome foe? Using all of the lawful and chaotic good tools available, how do you create a balanced party and slay the Beasts of Bias; racism, sexism and queerphobia? Can it be done? Venture together with me into the seedier side of AI as we band together to fight algorithmic injustice and create a better world. This is a dungeons and dragons themed talk about AI and ethics. I will talk about the key issues facing AI and AI engineers and what we need to do to create better, more equitable AI for all. I will talk about the considerations that need to be made, the issues that exist and how we can all band together to slay this monster.
D&D 5e Module (beta): LCA_AI Bias Campaign Module
Slides: Google Drive

AI Perceptions of Gender - STOFF
2022-09-05 00:00 UTC, 2022-09-13 08:00 - 2022-09-17 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Coming to Melbourne Fringe and Stockholm fringe festival is the entirely online 3D gallery experience AI perceptions of gender where people will have the opportunity to explore works generated by AI, galleries designed by AI and interactive websites that will cause you to question your own perceptions of gender!
Check the websites at stockholmfringe.com for further details!

AI Perceptions of Gender - Melbourne Fringe Festival
2022-09-05 00:00 UTC, 2022-10-06 08:00 - 2022-10-23 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Missed the show in Stockholm? Coming to Melbourne Fringe Festival is the entirely online 3D gallery experience AI perceptions of gender where people will have the opportunity to explore works generated by AI, galleries designed by AI and interactive websites that will cause you to question your own perceptions of gender!
Check the websites at melbournefringe.com.au for further details!

and/or presented by queertech.io, ACMI and Midsumma
2022-09-05 00:00 UTC
Presented by Midsumma Festival’s AND/OR program, ACMI and Queertech.io.
QueerTech.io presents an online/offline exhibition of artworks created by artists identifying as both queer and disabled. Curated by the Queertech.io artist collective and Midsumma Festival, works selected will be premiered online via exhibition on the queertech.io website and offline at a special screening at ACMI, Federation Square.
Now more than ever, queer voices are vital to a continued socio-political discourse surrounding representation in a digital landscape. Queertech.io showcases a broad cross-section of the innovative, poignant and queer-as-hell works emerging from diverse queer communities. Disabled voices, like queer voices, are marginalised, and queer disabled voices even more. Disabled artists are often overlooked in major landmark presentations and the discourse around accessibility of queer led events needs to be brought to the forefront. The queer community has many disabled members, some who have historically felt left out of Midsumma Festival events. This project highlights these artists with an online and physical show giving queer artists with a disability the opportunity to shine in a keynote Midsumma Festival presentation at ACMI.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Break the Binaries
2023-02-13 00:00 UTC, 2023-02-18 00:00 - 2023-06-17 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne)
Bend, blend, blur or break society’s binary codes as part of BREAK THE BINARIES, opening soon at Science Gallery Melbourne!
Installations from local and international artists will present a playful and kaleidoscopic view of identity and genders, and their relationship with science, technology, culture, race, sexuality and creativity. With collaboration at its heart, this exhibition will create connections and conversation through personal perspectives, interdisciplinary creative practice and research at The University of Melbourne.
As with all Science Gallery Melbourne exhibitions, BREAK THE BINARIES has been developed together with Curatorial Panel of young people and an Expert Advisory Group, and features a range of interdisciplinary projects across video, sound, sculpture and multimedia. Find out more about them below.
BREAK THE BINARIES builds on GENDERS: Shaping and Breaking the Binary, which took place at Science Gallery London, King’s College London. It will feature key UK artists and collectives including Adham Faramawy and Sadé Mica, whose works boldly reflect a new wave of hybrid creative practice spanning moving image, sound, sculptural installation, advocating for empowerment and social change.
Supported by the UK/Australia Season Patrons Board, the British Council and the Australian Government as part of the UK/Australia Season, in collaboration with Science Gallery London, Kings College London. f

Gender Tapestry Activation
2023-02-13 00:00 UTC, 2023-03-11 08:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
For One Day Only!
Gender Tapestry will have a live activation at ACMI in Melbourne in Gandel Lab 1.
Upload your selfie to help train a neural network and become a part of a community mosaic.
When you upload your selfie, the AI will assign you a colour based on your face, and will generate a two-tone image of you which will be added to the mosiac.
Submit an image of your face to experience gender classification with a twist. Instead of a gender you will receive a custom mixed color version of your image based on your classification results. This generated image is then incorporated into a library of images – a dataset used to create a colorful mosaic of GAN-generated works where the user’s image is added to the GAN to disrupt the outcome. As more people are classified, more colors are added to the library, prompting  both the GAN results and the mosaic to grow with increasing complexity.

Epoch Loop
2023-11-27 11:00 - 2024-02-11 18:00 UTC | The Loop, 157 Elizabeth St, Hobart, Tas, 7000, Australia
Set in Stone will be showing at Epoch Loop as part of Hobart Current: Epoch through December to February.

Embark on a visual odyssey with my AI-generated marble faces, an exploration of gender evolution. The journey begins with the AI mastering fixed, masculine expressions before gracefully integrating feminine features and then further to break the binary in a looping animation. Watch as the artwork dynamically shifts, breaking free from traditional confines, embracing non-binary expressions of color and joy.

This conceptual artwork delves into the machine’s process of creating gender representations, challenging and evolving its biases. A transgender neural network emerges, navigating the fluidity of gender expression beyond biological norms. The carefully curated datasets, inspired by classical statuary with a modern twist, intentionally introduce and then unravel biases, revealing a metamorphosis as the AI learns and celebrates the diversity of genders and expressions

Epoch Loop is part of Hobart Current: Epoch Public Programs and will continue to screen on The Loop for the duration of the Hobart Current exhibition.

When: Monday 27 November 2023 – Sunday 11 February 2024Monday to Friday: 11.30 am – 1 pm and 4.30 – 6 pmSaturday and Sunday: 1.30 – 3 pm and 6.30 – 8 pm

Where: 157 Elizabeth St, Central Courtyard, Hobart

Screening Schedule

NeurIPS Workshop on ML for Creativity and Design 2023
2023-12-16 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd,, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70130, United States
Gender Tapestry will be shown at the NeurIPS Workshop on ML for Creativity and Design 2023 as part of the artistic display. The schedule is on the website below. you can interact with Gender Tapestry at any time to receive your own custom color by going to https://gendertapestry.com

Gender Tapestry seeks to change attitudes towards gender classification by showing a new modality of gender classification assigning custom mixed, unique colors to users instead of a gender.

This viewing will show the video from the ACMI activation showing the evolution of the neural network and the increasing resolution of the image as more and more people interacted with the classifier. This is the first time this work has been shown at NeurIPS and shows why we need to consider gender as a 3D color spectrum instead of a binary.

Execute_Photography
2024-03-01 11:00 - 2024-05-04 17:00 UTC | RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
Interact with Gender Tapestry, a community driven AI artwork that seeks to explore a new way to during a new installation at Execute_Photography as part of Photo2024Photography is constantly dying and being reborn. AI represents the latest stage of photography’s transformation into a software output, cannibalising the camera and even transforming it into a set of executable text prompts. If it is now clear that photography is a kind of ‘program’, and that images are operational, actionable and scrapable, what does this mean for the future of the medium? Both an exploration and a provocation, this exhibition features work by Australian and international artists speculating on the social and political ramifications of photography’s afterlives.

Exhibition Curators: Alison Bennett, Shane Hulbert, Daniel Palmer, Katrina Sluis

Artists include: Memo Akten, Amrita Hepi, Max Pinckers and Dries Depoorter, Rosa Menkman, Sara Oscar, J. Rosenbaum, Sebastian Schmieg and Alan Warburton

CVPR2024 Art Gallery
2024-06-19 10:30 - 2024-06-21 18:45 UTC | Seattle Convention Center, 705 Pine St, Seattle, Washington, 98101, United States
Gender Tapestry is one of the chosen artworks taking part in this year’s CVPR art gallery online and at the conference.

The CVPR AI Art Gallery will be open to the public Wednesday, 19 June through Friday, 21 June from 10:30 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. PDT. A one-day exhibit pass will be available onsite, and guided tours will also be available on Wednesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. PDT and Friday at 11 a.m. PDT only. Cash prizes for the best artworks will be awarded on Thursday, 20 June.

Knox Immerse 2024 - Set in Stone
2024-06-28 08:00 - 2024-07-28 17:00 UTC | Knox Library, 425 Burwood Hwy, Wantirna South, Victoria, 3152, Australia
Set in Stone is going huge for Knox Immerse 2024 Festival! This exhibition will show a new site specific installation of my work exhibiting the debiasing of an AI system as well as a new augmented reality interaction with the work using WebAR. Head down to the brand new Knox Gallery to see the installation in the Youth Hive including a large scale wallpaper, AR and a video feed and be immersed in AI for good.

This work is a look at gender through the lens of a biased AI system that becomes un-biased over time showing that we can update our datasets to make better AI systems.I will be conducting a workshop on self expression with AI as well so keep an eye out for more information.

Fort Earth
2024-09-25 00:00 - 2024-10-05 23:59 UTC | Fortyfive Downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
Fort Earth is a group exhibition organized by FortHeartCo exploring eco friendly approaches to art. J. Rosenbaum will be presenting a new artwork that responds to the environmental theme by using local AI systems to show our increasing reliance on AI and the environmental impact of AI. The artists in the exhibition are:

Alex DanayAngela MezzatestaAnna SteelAnnette WagnerAutumn TanseyBailey McDermottBen DavisBingo Print ShopBonnie LeeBrigit HellerCallan SkiminCat ParkerCherise MarieChico LeongDanielle CDanish QuapoorDelphine ByrneEddie JamesEmmica LoreEveryday LinesFreya McLeodGarreth PearseGiovanna Da SilvaGlen DowneyGonketaGrace StevensonHarley & HändenHeath JohnsonIan ParadineImogen DavisIngmar ApinisIssac Williams

J. RosenbaumJack MurphyJames HeenanJason ParkerJenna WinshipJohn GatipJonathon HarrisJulia SchmittJulianna NyesteKaitlin BeckettKara InezKate McCarthyKerrie O’JamesKitt Falkner BabbelKyra HannahLance ZunigaLaura BennettLauren FaheyLauren NicholsonLeili WalkerLena StumpfLily Palmer BullLiz SonntagLucinda PennLuke HunterMacarena ThreadsManda LaneMarcie O’NeillMatthew ThorleyMeg KolacMel Jane WilsonMelanie CapleMelanie Sky

Melanie WebbMelody SpangaroMichaela PegumMike MakaMinhi ParkMollie WilsonMorgan Blue StudioMycelium3000N20Nani PuspasariNanou DupuisOlivia ChinPixelsRachel DerumRachelle KoumourisRebecca JonesRhys DelinacRochelle MorrisRonny EldersSam OctiganSim DarcySimon RankinSkubzSteph TesorieroSydney FareyTim AllenTomboyBillTracey LambVicki SoarViki MurrayXander LingerZoe Haynes SmithZoe JonesZoe Milah

Entangled Worlds
2025-10-02 17:30 - 2025-10-05 22:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Collingwood Yards, 35 Johnston St, Collingwood, Victoria, 3066, Australia
Slopocene Icons will be showing in two locations during Entangled Worlds at Collingwood Yards. These site specific installations will show the emerging AI fascist aesthetic in AI slop and generative AI. Through projection mapping these works will exhibit AI slop made with an intricate pipeline of custom trained AI systems, 3D modeling, 3D printing and more.

“Slopocene Icons interrogates AI slop on social media and juxtaposes it with classical sculpture to draw a connection between AI as an emerging fascist aesthetic. The algorithmic gaze of generative AI echoes the fascinations of 20th‑century dictators with classical statuary as an idealised form of humanity. By bringing together AI slop and classical imagery, Slopocene Icons stages a cautionary narrative. It asks us to examine how generative AI, marketed as neutral and creative, encodes, amplifies, and aestheticises authoritarian ideals, enforcing narrow visions of beauty, gender, and humanity under the guise of progress.”

Featuring:

Ariel Ruby

Ben Joseph Andrews and Emma Roberts

Jen Valender

J. Rosenbaum

Max Brading

Melania Jack

Rebecca Najdowski

Shirin Shakhesi

Presented by Centre for Projection Art and Collingwood Yards.

Supported by City of Yarra and Melbourne Fringe.

Curated by Yandell Walton

Fri 3 Oct — ACTIVATIONS:

Harrison Hall x Mat Spisbah x Nikki Tarling x Luca Dante

Jen Valender x Genevieve Fry

Sarah Aiken

Shirin Shakhesi​​​​​​​
