Seth Bockley
Seth Bockley is a writer of plays, poems, stories and screenplays. His stage works have been seen in Mexico City, Singapore, rural Ireland, Canada and all over the U.S. Current projects include King Gilgamesh & the Man of the Wild, a maqam-jazz inflected retelling of the ancient epic featuring Iraqi-Canadian actor-musician Ahmed Moneka. He is at work on a collection of short stories about magic in the American Midwest, and a novel about outsider art. He teaches at the University of Chicago, and serves as Director of Creative Engagement for the international eco-tech nonprofit Sovereign Nature Initiative, where he leads projects encouraging understanding and entanglement between humans and non-humans through art and technology.
Helena Sarin
Helena Sarin is a visual artist and software engineer who has always worked with cutting edge technologies. First at Bell Labs, designing commercial communication systems, and for the last few years as an independent consultant, developing computer vision software using deep learning. Save for the occasional foray into generative art with Processing and computational photography, all her art was analog... until she discovered GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks). With GANs, there is the adventure of new models and new datasets. There is a certain unpredictability that inspires, unblocks, and creates something special — something that goes far beyond Instagram/ Photoshop filters or ordinary style transfer. Recently she founded Neural Bricolage Studio to demystify, promote, and display AI assisted artwork.
