As a guest of the tech ethics summit All Tech Is Human in San Francisco, program director Andrew McWilliams spoke recently about projects incubated by ThoughtWorks Arts.

The talk centers on example projects which help to illustrate the mission of ThoughtWorks Arts, and its role in incubating research projects into emerging technologies, driven specifically by artistic inquiry.

We’re thrilled to announce that both Ellen Pearlman and Rashin Fahandej have been selected for the highly competitive ZERO1 American Arts Incubator 2020 program in collaboration with the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Of the six artists selected, Ellen will be working in Ukraine, and Rashin will be working in Austria.

Karen Palmer, working with a team at ThoughtWorks Arts, is exhibiting her recent project Perception iO at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York, Sept. 20, 2019 - May 17, 2020.

Perception iO is a facial emotion detection and eye tracking immersive film. Over the summer Karen teamed up with a dedicated team of programmers at ThoughtWorks to develop Perception iO, and to integrate the Tobii Pro eye gazing hardware into her installation.

The 2019 installment of ICA’s Biennial - James and Audrey Foster Prize exhibition showcases the work of four Boston-area artists, including ThoughtWorks Arts current volumetric filmmaking resident, Rashin Fahandej.

Rashin’s multi-platform, community engaged interactive volumetric work, A Father’s Lullaby underscores the role of men in raising children and their absence due to the racial disparities in the criminal justice system with its direct impact on children, women and lower income communities.

The new ThoughtWorks Arts residency in San Francisco has been awarded to a team of three artists working across media with a focus on remote collaboration and distributed storytelling.

The team’s project was proposed in response to an Open Call by ThoughtWorks Arts for artists to explore the democratization of AI via blockchain.

ThoughtWorks Arts Residency, in conjunction with Scatter, is pleased to announce that Rashin Fahandej as been awarded our Volumetric Filmmaking Residency to expand her project A Father’s Lullaby.

A Father’s Lullaby is a multi-platform, community engaged interactive work that highlights the role of men in raising children and their absence due to the racial disparities in the criminal justice system with its direct impact on children, women and lower income communities.

ThoughtWorks Arts has published an open call for artists to investigate the monopolization and centralization of artificial intelligence by a small number of corporate giants and state actors.

A key theme in the open call is for an artist to explore how this control of AI could impact society, and the potential impacts of alternative and open approaches.