Artificial intelligence at Kennedy Center

And the book chapter on Mormon art is out.

Refik Anadol’s artificial intelligence installation “Dvořák Dreams” at the Kennedy Center in Washington/My photo.

My article “Refik Anadol’s AI tribute to Czech composer Antonín Dvořák takes the stage in Washington, D.C.” ran in The Art Newspaper last week.

Here’s a selection:

The installation is a curated, pre-recorded projection of imagery and sound that plays in a 60-minute loop on a 32ft square screen on the side of a cube in a courtyard beside the Washington performance centre. Depending on the day, the piece runs either from noon or 4pm until midnight. In coordination with music, dizzying waves of colour dissolve and come back together, as if seen from above in a box. At various points, representational imagery—whether a cityscape, the Statue of Liberty or Dvořák composing—fade in and out of view, at times as if seen through a rain-covered or cloudy window.

My book chapter in Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader (Oxford UP, Amazon) is also out as of this past weekend.

The editors of the volume discussed each chapter in two podcast sessions with the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, which sponsored and shepherded the project. You can hear one of the editors discussing my chapter in the clip below, in which my chapter is described as among the funniest in the tome.