When is speech, art? An experiment.

Most public-facing interactions are considered part of a body of performance art. This includes the research and creativity phases as part of the performance and extends to giving academic talks, art talks, conference keynotes, and panels. Lectures or conversations as an AI consultant are partially included as part of this body of work. Şerife mostly presents about her research and completed or current work if interviewed. Otherwise, opportunities to connect with an audience are brought into view as the work and exist as separate pieces with motifs and themes unique to each situation or platform. She references the art and research of others as inspiration points. These social works combine education, philosophy, advocacy, spirituality, and conceptual art. The audiences do not need to view these as performance-oriented art pieces nor do these need to be situated in the art world. While public education on AI and emerging technologies is the foundation, other themes are pulled in to add nuance and humanize: art theory, power, limits of language, humor, grief, and the connection necessary to face crises. The body of work as a whole experiments with which contextual elements are required for art production.

Invitations to speak should be sent to: sherry at icarussalon dot com

Automating Illusions: Behind the hype of generative AI

Nov 2023, Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group (AFOG), the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and the CITRIS Policy Lab for the final lecture in the Fall Series, “Generative AI: Race, Art, and Power.”

Narratives of Reduction: Conceptual Limits of Technology

Oct 2023 Gray Area Festival, “Distant Early Warnings”

This performance lecture includes a moment of silence as a prompt that exposes the reductionist qualities of AI generated outputs.

PAnel with Poem

Apr 2022, National Humanities Center

This panel introduction contains a rebuttal of the popular use of the Icarus myth as inspiration for innovation, and includes a poem from early GPT 3 private app before it reached wider audiences. Notably, the novelty of generative tools does not last.