Allado-McDowell, K

K Allado McDowell © Ian Byers-Gamber

K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the books Pharmako-AI and Amor Cringe, and are co-editor 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.

Festival Content

FESTIVAL EXHIBITION: AI ANCESTORS – Making Kin in the Future

Who are “we?” Where do community and kinship begin and end? For whom do humans feel interest, responsibility, love, and empathy? What if humans were to enter into an open dialogue – not only with one another, but also with other animals, with plants, with fungi, or inorganic life forms past and present?

Allado-McDowell, K • Scheffler, Rike • Singh Soin, Himali • Soin Tappeser, David • Walleneit, Louise

FESTIVAL EXHIBITION: AI ANCESTORS – Making Kin in the Future

Who are “we?” Where do community and kinship begin and end? For whom do humans feel interest, responsibility, love, and empathy? What if humans were to enter into an open dialogue – not only with one another, but also with other animals, with plants, with fungi, or inorganic life forms past and present?

Allado-McDowell, K • Scheffler, Rike • Singh Soin, Himali • Soin Tappeser, David • Walleneit, Louise

FESTIVAL EXHIBITION: AI ANCESTORS – Making Kin in the Future

Who are “we?” Where do community and kinship begin and end? For whom do humans feel interest, responsibility, love, and empathy? What if humans were to enter into an open dialogue – not only with one another, but also with other animals, with plants, with fungi, or inorganic life forms past and present?

Allado-McDowell, K • Scheffler, Rike • Singh Soin, Himali • Soin Tappeser, David • Walleneit, Louise

FESTIVAL EXHIBITION: AI ANCESTORS – Making Kin in the Future

Who are “we?” Where do community and kinship begin and end? For whom do humans feel interest, responsibility, love, and empathy? What if humans were to enter into an open dialogue – not only with one another, but also with other animals, with plants, with fungi, or inorganic life forms past and present?

Allado-McDowell, K • Scheffler, Rike • Singh Soin, Himali • Soin Tappeser, David • Walleneit, Louise

FESTIVAL EXHIBITION: AI ANCESTORS – Making Kin in the Future

Who are “we?” Where do community and kinship begin and end? For whom do humans feel interest, responsibility, love, and empathy? What if humans were to enter into an open dialogue – not only with one another, but also with other animals, with plants, with fungi, or inorganic life forms past and present?

Allado-McDowell, K • Scheffler, Rike • Singh Soin, Himali • Soin Tappeser, David • Walleneit, Louise

FESTIVAL EXHIBITION: AI ANCESTORS – Making Kin in the Future

Who are “we?” Where do community and kinship begin and end? For whom do humans feel interest, responsibility, love, and empathy? What if humans were to enter into an open dialogue – not only with one another, but also with other animals, with plants, with fungi, or inorganic life forms past and present?

Allado-McDowell, K • Scheffler, Rike • Singh Soin, Himali • Soin Tappeser, David • Walleneit, Louise

FESTIVAL EXHIBITION: AI ANCESTORS – Making Kin in the Future

Who are “we?” Where do community and kinship begin and end? For whom do humans feel interest, responsibility, love, and empathy? What if humans were to enter into an open dialogue – not only with one another, but also with other animals, with plants, with fungi, or inorganic life forms past and present?

Allado-McDowell, K • Scheffler, Rike • Singh Soin, Himali • Soin Tappeser, David • Walleneit, Louise

FESTIVAL EXHIBITION: AI ANCESTORS – Making Kin in the Future

Who are “we?” Where do community and kinship begin and end? For whom do humans feel interest, responsibility, love, and empathy? What if humans were to enter into an open dialogue – not only with one another, but also with other animals, with plants, with fungi, or inorganic life forms past and present?

Allado-McDowell, K • Scheffler, Rike • Singh Soin, Himali • Soin Tappeser, David • Walleneit, Louise

FESTIVAL EXHIBITION: AI ANCESTORS – Making Kin in the Future

Who are “we?” Where do community and kinship begin and end? For whom do humans feel interest, responsibility, love, and empathy? What if humans were to enter into an open dialogue – not only with one another, but also with other animals, with plants, with fungi, or inorganic life forms past and present?

Allado-McDowell, K • Scheffler, Rike • Singh Soin, Himali • Soin Tappeser, David • Walleneit, Louise

MAKING KIN WITH PLANTS AND MACHINES

COLLECTIVE WRITING RITUAL AND ARTIST TALK (in the context of the festival exhibition) – K Allado-McDowell will initiate a collective writing ritual with live visuals by Lucas Gutierrez, Debashis Sinhas immersive sounds, the audience, and the language AI GPT-3. Debashis Sinha will talk with the artists Louise Walleneit and K Allado-McDowell about their work.

Allado-McDowell, K • Sinha, Debashis • Scheffler, Rike • Walleneit, Louise • Gutierrez, Lucas

Festival exhibition

AI ANCESTORS — MAKING KIN IN THE FUTURE

Who are “we?” Where do community and kinship begin and end? For whom do humans feel interest, responsibility, love, and empathy? What if humans were to enter into an open dialogue – not only with one another, but also with other animals and with plants, fungi, or inorganic life forms past and present?

Allado-McDowell, K • Scheffler, Rike • Singh Soin, Himali • Soin Tappeser, David • Walleneit, Louise