Being

Rashaad Newsome

Rashaad Newsome leverages artificial intelligence, robotics, and sculpture to design a social humanoid robot and artist. Non-binary and non-racial, the robot will provide an opportunity to investigate the social implications of artificial intelligence with respect to rights and liberties, bias and inclusion, and safety and critical infrastructure. Newsome’s project is called Being.

From the blog: Rashaad Newsome’s "Being"

This week, Art + Technology Lab grant recipient Rashaad Newsome will debut the first generation of his cloud-based A.I. humanoid Being at his exhibition To Be Real at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC). Developed to act as a critical guide to the show, Being's mind has been populated with the works of radical authors and theorists such as bell hooks, Paulo Freire, and Michel Foucault.

Rashaad Newsome’s “Being”—Pt 2

This is the second installment of our Q&A with Art + Technology Lab grant recipient Rashaad Newsome.

Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices including collage, sculpture, film, music, computer programming, and performance, to form an altogether new field. He pulls intuitively from the world of advertising, the Internet, Black and Queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic works that use the diasporic traditions of improvisation and college, to craft compositions that walk the tightrope between intersectionality, social practice, and abstraction.

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