J. Rosenbaum

Nuit Rose: Hidden Worlds
2019-05-29 00:00 UTC, 2019-06-15 00:00 - 2019-06-16 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne)
What does gender look like when created by a machine? When given idealized figures from Greek and Roman statues how does a machine interpret them, create its own? And how does an artist respond to that? These works are a collaboration between human and computer, to create art where gender shifts and transforms, where what we see on the surface is only skin deep.
This exhibition is interactive, with an Augmented Reality application that can be downloaded at www.hiddenworlds.ml to transform the works on the wall. It incorporates sound, narrative, drawing and 3D modeling to create a unique display exploring gender beyond the binary and deep inside the world of computer vision.
For further information please visit Hidden Worlds

Knox Immerse 2019: Hidden Worlds
2019-05-29 00:00 UTC, 2019-09-01 00:00 - 2019-09-29 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne)

Body of Knowledge
2019-06-27 08:00 - 2019-06-29 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Can computers see gender? Without being trained in traditional binary notions of gender what can they produce? And how do we interpret the results? J. Rosenbaum presents a paper on their project Hidden Worlds, an exhibition of Artificial Intelligence Computer Generated artworks and mobile Augmented Reality technologies to see gender through the lens of computer vision. Rosenbaum’s last works used AI to interpret their creations, this time the computer creates the art and Rosenbaum interprets the output. A Generative Adversarial Network that has been trained in thousands of images of Greek and Roman statuary worked for weeks to create its own. Rosenbaum then explored the output to find the truth inside the computer generated work and reveal that to the viewer. Another Neural Network looked at the works and wrote poetry based on what it saw through an image classifier. This is incorporated into a soundscape inside the app. Viewers will see light boxes and watch them come to life inside the app as the computer generated work is transformed and reinterpreted by human eyes and hands. The language is alien, computer driven showing a collaborative effort between human and machine. This highly experimental work invites questions about computers creating art, about how machines see humans and gender and idealized beauty.
BoK2019 will generate questions that explore the dynamic between an organism and its surroundings, by asking: How does art shift the way knowledge and thinking processes are acquired, extended and distributed? How do cognitive theories offer ways to enact and change individual and collective ways of thinking? The aims of the first Body of Knowledge Art and Embodied Cognition Conference, which was held at UC IRVINE in 2016 were to “bring together an interdisciplinary group including cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, philosophers of mind, physiologists, psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, computer scientists, artists and designers to explore emerging cognitive neuroscience and theories of embodied cognition.”

Uncanny Valley
2019-07-10 00:00 UTC, 2019-09-26 16:00 - 2019-09-29 23:30 (Australia/Melbourne)
Enter the Uncanny Valley, an unnerving place, a place to explore computer generated people, to transplant their faces onto your own and see humanity and the posthuman surrealism of snapchat through a computer’s eyes. Works generated by AI, added to your face using AI to turn you into a computer human hybrid.
J Rosenbaum has trained their computer on tens of thousands of snapchat selfies and trained their computer to make its own. A surreal landscape grid of generated partially human faces. You are then given the opportunity to use snapchat to put the images back onto your own face and become part of the artwork, share, pose with friends and share the creepy, cool and sometimes hilarious results.
J. Rosenbaum is a contemporary figurative artist working in 3D modeling, artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence and exploring the intersection of technology and art. Their most recent work has been in exploring the nature of Non Binary transness and their own genders and sexuality. In 2019 they are continuing their research into computer perceptions of gender with their PhD at RMIT.

AWS Community Day Melbourne
2019-08-30 00:00 UTC, 2019-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Join the largest AWS community event in Australia with Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist & VP

AWS Community Day Australia is a free full-day event dedicated to AWS User Groups and Meet Ups, “for the community, by the community.” Showcasing some of our local community speakers, influencers and innovators; we will cover topics from AI, Machine Learning, Serverless, Containers, VR and more.
As the second large scale event in Australia we aim to inspire, educate and bring developer and IT communities together through technical discussions, free hands on labs, demos and plenty of opportunities to network with AWS experts.

Talk Slides – AWS_ArtofMakingArt

Future Histories
2020-01-21 00:00 UTC, 2020-01-29 00:00 - 2020-02-29 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne)
Banyule Council is proud to present Future Histories as part of our celebration of Midsumma Festival 2020. This art exhibition is a safe space for people to engage with LGBTIQ+ issues, and explores current themes facing the LGBTIQ+ community with a focus on gender diversity. Each of the artists explores these complex ideas, drawing from personal histories to suggest a new future. This exhibition will be complemented by talks, workshops and other resources for further understanding.
Future Histories features work from artists Mig Dann, Anj Odessa, J. Rosenbaum and Peter Waples-Crowe..
A safe space for all…
Opening night: Wednesday 29 January, 2020, 6-8pm

Clouds: The 6th International Exhibition on New Media Art 2020
2020-03-25 00:00 - 2020-04-12 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne), 2020-03-28 00:00 UTC
An international exhibition of new media art and artists exploring identity, culture and creation.
CICA Museum
March 25 – April 12 , 2020
2020. 03. 25 – 04. 12
Featured Artists 참여작가:
Sandra Araújo, Reid Arowood, Tyler Calkin, Yanyun Chen & Sara Chong, Hyeonah Choi 최현아 & Ahyeon Bong 봉아연, Jisoo Chung, Jeff Crouse & Ray LC & team, Santino Gonzales, William Grob, Xu Han, Yann Houri, Michael Johnston & Joshua Miller, Christopher Kaczmarek, Hyeon Jin Kwon 권현진, Alex Lee, Jiaqi Li, Robert Maciel, Mana Mehrabian, Bruno Melo, David Mrugala, s/n, Kelley O’Brien, Andre Perim, Bradley Phillips & Liz Bayan, Nadia Rahat, J. Rosenbaum, Ran Bensimon, Anne Yoncha, Māra Zoltners

The new (ab)normal
2020-06-02 00:00 UTC, 2020-06-18 12:00 - 2020-08-28 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
I am delighted to announce that have some artwork in RMIT Gallery’s inaugural online exhibition  The new (ab)normal, exploring isolation in conjunction with neural networks and landscapes.
These AI artworks have been made working with image translation neural networks online through playform.io. These images are somewhat poignantly resonating with my feelings during isolation. It’s hard to focus and online diversions such as this have been helping, tangentially related to my work and yet new and unusual at the same time. The works are made by drawing and having the neural network generate a landscape from the sketch.
RMIT Gallery’s inaugural online exhibition  The new (ab)normal  provides a real-time snapshot of how artists are responding to their new working conditions and circumstances during the COVID-19 global health crisis.
Join us to see the exhibition unfold. The online exhibition will go live on the RMIT Gallery website on 18 June 2020.
Curated by Helen Rayment, RMIT Galleries Curator, and Dr Tammy Wong Hulbert, Lecturer of Arts Management (specialising in curating), the exhibition is presented in partnership with RMIT’s School of Art with creative responses from more than 40 School of Art staff, HDR students, and industry partners.
The project honours the value of the work of those who teach and study at RMIT at this time of deep disruption. They have been invited to contribute both written and visual artworks reflecting the impact of their locked down experience.
What does the life of an artist look like at this time; is work created at home, or is there still access to a studio?  Are there children to educate too? What does an ordinary day look like in this new territory?
These creative responses reflect the reality of this period, giving us an insight into the personal, emotional and transformative.
The new (ab)normal provides us with a timely insight into how art can unite us, and that although we may be physically distant, our social connections remain strong and are perhaps even strengthened under these challenging circumstances.
Artists including: Sogan Alamdarfard, Rushdi Anwar, Robert Baines, Sofi Basseghi, Kay Mei Ling Beadman, Alison Bennett, Pie Bolton, Susan Buchanan, S. Chandrasekaran, Christy Chow, Kris Coad, Jennifer Conroy-Smith, Simon Crosbie, Mig Dann, Rhett D’Costa, Phil Edwards, Yiannis Galanopoulos, Yue Gu, Andrew Gunnell, Guang Hui Huang, Pennie Jagiello, Priyanka Jain, Tassia Joannides, Varuni Kanagasundaram, Martin Kay, Lan Lan, Kit Man Leong, Ye Liu, Peng Liu, Daniel Marks, Christine McFetridge, Jerome De Perlinghi, Robyn Phelan, Milenko Prvacki, Marlaina Read, Steven Rendall, J. Rosenbaum, Benjamin Sheppard, Fleur Summers, Cordelia Tam, Lesley Turnbull, Lan Wang, Peter Westwood, Jude Worters, Theresa Yang

Frankenstein's Telephone - online AI art interactive exhibition
2020-06-08 00:00 UTC, 2020-06-30 12:00 - 2020-09-30 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Thanks to a generous contribution from the City of Melbourne and their covid19 relief grant program I am proud to announce that I will be making Frankenstein’s Telephone, previously seen at Future Histories for Midsumma 2020, an online AI art exhibition. This includes going through the works I have created during my research into computer perceptions of gender but also an interactive experience where you can generate your own chain of events and see how different Artificial Intelligence algorithms interpret your words and create something based on them.
The project is now available on http://www.frankensteinstelephone.com

Melbourne fringe: Frankenstein's Telephone
2020-11-02 00:00 UTC, 2020-11-12 00:00 - 2020-11-29 00:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Frankenstein’s telephone is coming to Melbourne Fringe festival 2020 as a Pants Off event!
Explore connected AI algorithms online and make bizarre artworks and watch the chain of events unfold as each AI goes on to interpret each other’s mistakes.
Melbourne AI artist J. Rosenbaum has made an interactive website to explore artificial intelligence art generated by this chain of AI and make your own using photographs or text inputs to create AI magic. The results are unpredictable, unsettling and unbelievably weird.

Sending you my Love
2021-02-10 00:00 - 2021-03-14 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne), 2021-06-29 00:00 UTC
“Sending You My Love” features a curated selection of unique works created using Playform AI by artists Chellcy Reitsma, Domenico Barra, J. Rosenbaum, Martin Lukas Ostachowski, Noortje Stortelder, Roxy Savage, and Seda Turec. Curated by Playform Studio.

Press Release

New York – February 14, 2020 – Playform Studio, an exclusive studio for artists, debuts “Sending You My Love,” on Artsy today. The exhibition features a curated selection of unique works created using Playform AI by artists Chellcy Reitsma, Domenico Barra, J. Rosenbaum, Martin Lukas Ostachowski, Noortje Stortelder, Roxy Savage, and Seda Turec.
“Sending You My Love” asks what love might look like during an era of virtual connection. Throughout the course of the global pandemic, humans adapted to a new normal, where love and the expressions of it were required to change. The seven featured artists explore what this type of love looks like through photography, digital manipulation and video work. “This exhibition demonstrates both the complexities and capabilities of human connection,” said contributing curator Mirabelle Alan, “and the ways in which technology has become an integral to expressions of love has perhaps shifted how we view the digital world.”

Midsumma and Australia Post Art Prize 2021
2021-04-28 00:00 - 2021-05-08 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne), 2021-06-29 00:00 UTC
I’m pleased to announce that I am a finalist in the Midsumma Australia Post Art Prize for 2021 for my work Set in Stone.
About the Prize
Since its inauguration in 2016 the Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award has quickly established itself as an important award in the ecology of the arts. With finalists selected from across the country, the non-acquisitive annual award is a survey of outstanding queer artists working across mediums reflecting their potent personal and political perspectives on the world.
In its sixth year, this selection of queer artists from across the country showcase their personal and political perspectives of the world.

Midsumma Festival is delighted to present this award and exhibition event as part of our ongoing partnership with Australia Post. Celebrating diversity and inclusion is important to Australia Post. They are committed to supporting their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer employees and driving positive change to create more inclusiveness not just throughout their workforce but throughout the wider community.
Winners and Next year’s announcements: https://www.midsumma.org.au/participate/midsumma-and-australia-post-art-award/

THE 2021 FINALISTS

J Rosenbaum
Mira Oosterweghel
Glynn Urquhart
Kate Tandoc
Martin Lee
Larissa MacFarlane
Samuel Beatty
John Gosper
Kyle KM
Revee Bendixen
Selwyn Hoffmann
Nyulla Safi
Matto Lucas
Emma Armstrong-Porter
Softwear

Image Credit: Image: Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award, image by Suzanne Balding

Generator: Imaging Futures Symposium
2021-05-06 10:30 - 15:00 (Australia/Melbourne), 2021-06-29 00:00 UTC
I will be presenting my research and work at the RMIT symposium Generator.
The Imaging Futures Lab at RMIT University presents a symposium on expanded photography and the future of the image. Involving academics, post graduate students and industry professionals, this one day symposium seeks to explore and critique new directions in the creative application of photography.

Gertrude St Projection Festival 2021
2021-06-29 00:00 UTC, 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, 2022-01-16 14:25 - 15:10 (Australia/Melbourne)
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

and/or presented by queertech.io, ACMI and Midsumma
2022-02-05 08:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
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.
