Amy Alexander

Amy Alexander has been making computationally-based art projects since the 1990s. She is a Professor of Computing in the Arts in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego. Her work has been exhibited and performed on the Internet, in clubs, and on the street as well as in festivals and museums. She has written and lectured on algorithms in culture, historical and contemporary audiovisual performance, and media preservation. Amy’s projects “What the Robot Saw” and “Deep Hysteria” incorporate machine learning and neural networks to address bias in social media and facial analysis algorithms. Amy’s projects have been exhibited and performed at venues ranging from The Whitney Museum, Prix Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, NIME, ICLC (International Conference on Live Coding), and the New Museum to club performances at Sonar (Barcelona), First Avenue (Minneapolis) and Melkweg (Amsterdam). She has also performed on the streets of cities in the US and Europe.

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SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Roles:
  • Exhibition Jury
  • SPARKS Presenter