ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Exploring the implications of AI on humanity and the future.
Fostering robust discourse, thoughtful design, mindful engagement, and ethical advancement towards an empowering co-creation with Artificial Intelligence.
“The future with AI does not have to be something that happens to us, it is something that we can co-create.”
– Amy Karle
Amy Karle has been working with Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networking, Machine Learning, and generative design since 2015, probing the potential impacts of AI when our digital, biological, and existential realms are inseparably intertwined. She collaborates with leading companies, organizations, and institutions, and contributes to global think tanks, hackathons, and talks on AI, sparking imagination and advocating for an ethical and empowering coexistence with AI. Her AI art and design works have received international acclaim, and are exhibited in major museums worldwide. Using AI as both a medium and a subject in her work, she poses critical questions, illuminates future visions, and encourages us to actively shape the future that we desire.
We are on the brink of a transformative era where AI permeates every aspect of life. Amidst this exponential whirlwind, Amy Karle champions a future where AI does not just happen to us, but is consciously crafted and used in a way that is ethical, beneficial, sustainable, and enhancing.
Fusing AI, art, design, technology, and living systems, Karle’s work exemplifies and advocates for a future where humans and AI symbiotically coexist and co-create. She integrates AI into her practice, not just as a functional tool, but as a collaborator fostering a deep understanding of its ethical and existential dimensions that influence and challenge humanity and our future. This research and use fuels her insight into AI’s profound impacts, potentials, and challenges.
Karle’s approach transcends traditional computational aspects of AI and delves into the intersections between physical beings and the digital realm, particularly in the context of scientific and medical advancements, identity, unraveling the complexities of AI’s role in society, potential impacts on humanity, and what we can do to sculpt various futures.
Illuminating a future where our digital, biological, and existential realms are inseparably intertwined, Karle’s work emerges as a call for a healthy, sustainable, and empowering synergy between humans and AI. Her work in AI acts as a mirror to society, and as mirror that both reflects and inspires who we might become through the ethical and thoughtful design, use, and development of AI.
“AI is a tool that can enhance our potential, improve our world, our environment, and quality of life… but are we using it that way?” – Amy Karle
SHAPING A NEW PARADIGM
Probing pivotal questions and provoking critical dialogue about our relationship with technology, how it shapes our lives and the future.
There is immense transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence to co-create unprecedented change and impact, both positive and negative. Karle poses fundamental questions, researches hands-on, and illuminates the powerful potentials and risks of AI with far-future vision, fostering critical discourse, and promoting intentional and ethical design and deployment of AI for the well-being of the future.
As medical and biotechnological progress continues, Artificial Intelligence will increasingly enmesh with biology, heavily influencing many living and physical systems, including our bodies and the environment. In this era, we could unlock solutions to complex global challenges, ranging from healthcare to resource access and climate change. There are also numerous ethical implications and major concerns. The key lies in conscious, intentional creation and use of these tools, with both the present and future’s well-being in mind.
Encouraging a future shaped by conscious interaction with AI, Karle’s advocacy for ethical AI encourages a future where AI supports and augments, not replaces, human potential and the natural world. Karle invites us to envision and create a world transformed by ethical and mindful engagement with AI, enhancing humanity’s potential and stimulating unprecedented advancements.
Fusing AI, art, design, technology, and living systems, Karle’s work exemplifies and advocates for
a future where humans and AI symbiotically coexist and co-create.
Amy Karle: Intro to Transformative AI 2024
Amy Karle speaking at NVIDIA GTC
What is Artificial Intelligence? 2017
Amy Karle on infotech / biotech and what it means to be human
ENGAGING NEW REALMS
Art & Design as Catalyst
Forging pathways to the future through AI-infused art and design,
leveraging Artificial Intelligence as a dynamic creative tool, and reflecting
potentials, pitfalls, and emotional dimensions of our evolving relationship with AI.
There is a dynamic interplay between research, innovation, art, and design in Amy Karle’s creative process. She employs emerging and exponential technologies, including AI, to create and envision things never possible before. In working with emergent technologies, Karle’s primary aim is to investigate potentials, and generate new forms, expressions, processes, and thinking that could not be spawned in any other way. The commitment to engage emergent technologies including AI transcends mere use; it embodies a process of discovery that crosses disciplines to spark new concepts, workflows, materials, tool development, and visions in the process. The final works stand as artifacts of this explorative journey, imbued with new aesthetics and new ways of thinking from using these new tools.
Karle merges the computational with living systems to accelerate the realization of future visions into tangible form, some of which continue to evolve and adapt, mirroring the flux of our rapidly changing world and offering dynamic representations of a fast-approaching future. The artwork resonates with questions and aspirations inherent in the technology that co-created it. Karle’s art and design work with AI both function to serve as potent change agents and prompt inquiry.
Karle’s design work carries a functional purpose, responding across disciplines including biodesign, body design, fashion design, architecture, transportation, autonomy, tech design, interaction design, and futures design. Guided by a commitment to support living and natural systems and foster a better world, she previews a future where AI is harnessed to support natural systems, creative innovative products and processes, enrich lives, amplify potential, and shape sustainable futures.
Her bio-technological creations span from biodesign—the functional aspect, to bioart—the emotionally resonant aspect. These reflect our evolving symbiosis with AI, demonstrating potential ways to leverage technology to enhance internal structures, augment biological functions, and navigate the philosophical, ethical, and emotional dimensions of bio-digital embodiment and disembodiment. AI’s emerging capability to replicate us—once a science fiction concept—has now become technological fact.
Leveraging AI as a research tool and collaborator, Karle constructs dynamic works that serve to reshape our understanding of what it means to be creative, what it means to be human, and even what it means to be alive, her work shapes the future of totally new kind of AI-human interaction, ultimately using AI as a mirror to reflect profound questions about what it means to be human, consciousness, creativity, agency, ownership, the future, and who we might become.
Karle invites exploration of the transformative power of AI through her art and design work.
She presents unprecedented visions of the future, offering gateways that underscore
AI’s potential to accelerate and reshape our lives, our bodies, and our world.
EXHIBITIONS featuring Amy Karle’s work incorporating AI
2024
Sapporo International Art Festival Triennial, Future Theater, Sapporo, Japan
2023
Nova Biennale of Art and Technology, Museu do Amanhã, Río de Janeiro, Brazil
AI: The Next Evolution, Chimaera Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Biodesign Challenge, MoMA, NY, USA
Przemiany Festival, Copernicus Science Center, Warsaw, Poland
2022
Unknown Unknowns, Milano Triennale, Italy
Perfect Body, ESC Medien Kunst Labor, Graz, Austria
WAGMI, Contemporary Art Platform (CAP), Kuwait
Art, Design & Technology, Astro Studios, San Francisco, USA
Gaia: Gene, Algorithm, Intelligent Design and Automata – A Mirage Self, The Other Realm, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MoCA Taipei), Taipei, Taiwan
2021
Future U, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Am I Human to You?, KUBE Art Museum, Ålesund, Norway
2020
Regeneration Through Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
[UN]REAL, Science Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
In Kepler’s Gardens, Ars Electronica Garden, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ars Electronica .ART Global Gallery, online
2019
Future and the Arts: How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The State of Us, The Lowry, Manchester, England
Future Art and Life, Post Life, Tian Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2019 (cntd.)
La Fabrique Du Vivant, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Life. As We Know It, And Beyond, MuseOn, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018
Post Life, Beijing Media Art Biennale, Beijing, China
Ars Electronica Export, Tokyo, Japan
Layers of Life: What is Life in The Biotech Era?, Centrum Nauki Kopernik, Warsaw, Poland
Future Humanity – Our Shared Planet, Ars Electronica, Beijing, China
L.A.S.T., SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, California, USA
2017
Collaborative Futures – Design, Technology and Art, Good Design Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
Artificial Intelligence: AI / The Other I, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
FILE Electronic Language International Festival (Festival de Linguagem Eletrônica), São Paulo, Brazil
The Body & Technology: A Conversational Metamorphosis, San Francisco, CA, USA
2016
Autodesk Pier 9 Artist in Residence Fall Show, San Francisco, CA, USA
Imagine Science Film Festival, NY, USA
Mykonos Multimedia Festival, Mykonos, Greece
Autodesk Pier 9 Artist in Residence Spring AiR Show, San Francisco, CA, USA
2015
Resonance, Performance at Signal Culture, NY, USA
IMPACT & INNOVATION Through Collaboration
Engaging AI across diverse fields to expand creative horizons, foster innovative outcomes, develop transformative products, processes, and projects, and to unlock unprecedented opportunities for profound impact.
Karle invites us into a world where AI expands our creative horizons, fostering innovative products, processes, projects, aesthetics, and unique opportunities. Each of her collaborations underscores her talent for realizing the extraordinary synergy between AI and creativity when applied to a concept or field.
The world of Amy Karle is one where artificial intelligence opens the floodgates of creative potential, sparking innovation and generating a new wave of exciting possibilities. Her extensive collaborations, constituting a dynamic mix of projects, clients, and commissions across industry and institutions, stand as a testament to her exceptional ability to create impact and foster innovation through collaboration.
Collaboration forms the heart of Amy Karle’s practice, and it is through multifaceted exchange that she catalyzes and develops meaningful projects and advancements. Each of her collaborations underscores her talent for materializing the extraordinary synergy between AI and creativity when applied to a concept or field, and her ability to bring together diverse ideas with ethical innovation to generate previously untapped opportunities. Her collaborations stand as proof of her approach in harnessing AI to foster novel opportunities, new aesthetics, transformational designs, products, processes, and projects; igniting ideas, and inspiring collective progress towards common goals.
Her cross-disciplinary approach stands as a testament to AI’s universal applicability, offering applications and solutions that redefine our interactions, tools, and outcomes. With every project, Karle continues to deliver high-value collaborations that leave lasting, meaningful impacts.
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Each of Karle’s collaborations underscores the ability for realizing the
extraordinary synergy between AI and creativity when applied to a concept or field.
SHARING THE MESSAGE
Amy Karle’s interviews and articles inspire a deeper understanding and appreciation of the transformative power of AI. She illuminates future scenarios of how AI may be integrated into our lives and bodies, and the impact it could have on the future. Her insights navigate ethical implications and advocate for a future where AI and technology serve to enrich and enhance -rather than undermine or endanger- our lives and our world.
An AI Society
Issues in Science & Technology
National Academy of Sciences | Jan 16 2024
The article explores the complex role of generative AI in society while showcasing Amy Karle’s pioneering use of AI in biodesign to innovatively address environmental sustainability and carbon mitigation.
AI-Assisted Biodesign
Issues in Science & Technology
National Academy of Sciences | Jan 16 2024
Acutely aware of the volume of questions and concerns AI poses, Karle chooses to use AI in her research and work to illuminate that it can be used to support and co-create preferable futures.
Ethics & Human Research
Hastings Center Report | Oct 1, 2023
Featured in the issue is Karle’s work investigating the melding of the human body with exponential tech like AI and synthetic biology, uncovering bioethical dilemmas and envisioning a future where technological interventions potentially reshape existence.
Merging Ethics, AI, & Art in a New Vision of Humanity
Made By AI | June 22, 2023
Interview with Amy Karle, pioneer at the intersection of AI and bioart, shares insights on creative process, the role of AI in art, ethics, and her visions for the future.
A Short Walk Through the Uncanny Valley of A.I. Art
Phili Art Blog | July 17, 2023
“Amy Karle is a multi-faceted artist … Her view that technology will transform a post natural world has an undercurrent of sci-fi secular spiritualism… Karle’s expression for the desire for total non-binary transformation has a strong resonance.”
Exploring How Technology is Changing Humanity
AI Studios | May 27, 2023
In this podcast, Karle discusses the impact of AI on evolution, how AI will change the way we think and function, and how she expresses these themes through AI art.
Robot Couture: Is Tech Fashion Having a Moment?
The Influential | Mar 20, 2023
Article includinig Amy Karle’s garments merging fashion with tech and her AI fashion designs that envision the future of fashion and connection in a digital world.
Generative & Autonomous Art: How Does it Affect Copyright Law? (Chinese)
Ai Chang × aai | Mar 26, 2022
Chinese article creatively charting copyright complexities with advanced technologies, including when cells are used, as in Amy Karle’s AI bio work.
Amy Karle Interview: Exponential Technology & Ethics Series
ideaXme | Feb 17, 2021
In this podcast, Amy Karle discusses her award winning work and the critical role ethics must play in the development of exponential technologies.
The Future Human: Who Will We Become Under the Influence of Technology?
BBC 100 Women | Oct 17, 2019
In this talk, Amy Karle shares how technology is transforming human identity as it intertwines with our lives, illuminated by the art she creates on these themes.
Brainsongs and the Enhanced Human (Audio News Article)
ORF | Mar 5, 2018
Integrating mind, body, technology Karle explores humanity in the face of swift innovations, embodied as tangible reflections in her artworks like Brainsongs.
AI, At The Heart Of The Human (French)
Liberation | Nov 28, 2018
Special issue dedicated to AI, featuring an interview with Amy Karle delving into the critical questions around human evolution and our relationship with AI and technology.
The Beijing Media Art Biennale Forum (Chinese)
Dry Goods | Sep 8, 2018
Covers Amy Karle’s talk at the Biennale on synthetic life, Al, and post-life, sharing her insights on the implications of rapid technological advancements for human existence and the future.
Robotic Lovers May be in the Not-So-Distant Future
Fusion TV | Oct 26, 2017
Feature interview with Amy Karle on Sex.Right.Now about the possibility of human-robot relationships, the role of Artificial Intelligence in connection and intimacy in the future.
How Long Before We Can Build Westworld Host Robots for Real?
VICE | Nov 2, 2016
Article includes insight from Amy Karle on the possibilities of bringing to life the concept of Westworld-like bio-artificial systems.