Media Art Salon: Generative Generosity

Delve into the ways contemporary artists are drawing inspiration from open source technologies at the Wednesday, September 13 installment of Oolite Arts' Media Salon. Generative Generosity will feature four open culture projects that include a toolkit for creating robotics, a digital sample library of pre-Columbian instrument recordings, generative public art in the browser, and the latest digital innovations at Perez Art Museum Miami.

The lineup of featured speakers include:

Madeline Gannon
A multidisciplinary designer blending techniques in art, design, computer science and robotics to forge new futures for human-robot relations. Also known as “The Robot Whisperer,” Gannon specializes in convincing robots to do things they were never intended to do.

Juan Ledesma
A Miami-based, Peruvian interdisciplinary artist who uses sculpture, drawing and sound installation to examine the intersection of sound and material culture. His practice treats seemingly unrelated disciplines, like linguistics and acoustics, as common threads in the fabric of our social reality, revealing spaces of commonality that fundamentally question who we are and how we relate to one another.

Daniel Temkin
A multidisciplinary artist who uses photography, programming languages, net art and paintings to examine the clash between systemic logic and human irrationality. Temkin has written about code and programming languages as an art form for Hyperallergic, Leonardo and World Picture Journal. His blog esoteric.codes brings together work by artists, writers, and hacker/hobbyists who challenge conventional notions of computing, connecting work that resonate conceptually but emerge across very different disciplines and communities.