SONGS OF HEALING:
MUSIC & ARTIFICIAL EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
MAY 21, 2022HONOR FRASER GALLERY, LOS ANGELES
A screening of Alaap, the first chapter in Surabhi Saraf's experimental conceptual album”, Awoke and Awoken, followed by a conversation between the artist and K Allado-McDowell. Songs of Healing was hosted at Honor Fraser Gallery in conjunction with Awoke and Awokened: Alaap, a solo exhibition by Surabhi Saraf.
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Surabhi Saraf, Alaap 2022, 4k video w/ 3d sound
K Allado-McDowell, Pharmoko-AI 2020
K Allado-McDowell, Amor Cringe 2022
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Surabhi Saraf (she/her) is a media artist, composer and founder of Centre for Emotional Materiality. Her practice explores our complex relationship with technology using embodiment as a tool and the body as a site for transformation. Surabhi is the recipient of the Eureka Fellowship Award by the Fleishhacker Foundation (2015), the Djerassi Resident Artist Award (2012) and the Artist + Process + Ideas Residency at Mills College Art Museum (2016). She was a 2019 Technology Resident at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and 2020 resident at HarvestWorks, NY.
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K Allado-McDowell (they/them) is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the book Pharmako-AI, and are co-editor, with Ben Vickers, of The Atlas of Anomalous AI. They record and release music under the name Qenric. Allado-McDowell established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI. They are a conference speaker, educator and consultant to think-tanks and institutions seeking to align their work with deeper traditions of human understanding.