Harvard metaLAB

The possibilities of AI long seemed futuristic and far-fetched. Now, however, the impact of AI technology is felt in every aspect of public and private life, with results ranging from the delightful to the disturbing. At the same time, discourse about these advances is mostly limited to experts, leaving the broader public outside the conversation. metaLAB’s current focus on Art + AI brings to life questions about the social and ethical implications of AI technologies. This work is explored through teaching, workshops, research, and exhibitions.

Kim Albrecht is a visual researcher and information designer, interested in networks, power, the artificial and how we can find visual representations for these topics to produce and represent knowledge.

Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology appears such venues as The American Scholar, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and The New York Times. His most recent book, TREE, was published by Bloomsbury in 2017.

Rachel Kalmar is a data scientist, Berkman Klein Fellow, and world record holder for number of wearable sensors worn continuously. Wrangling noisy data, she investigates how to make wearable and sensor data useful and interactive.

Maia Leandra Suazo-Male is a junior at Harvard College studying the History of Art & Architecture and Computer Science.

Sarah Newman is a Creative Researcher at metaLAB at Harvard, and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Working primarily in the areas of installation art and photography, she develops projects that deal with technology’s role in culture, examining the significance of the current moment both playfully and critically.

Jonathan Sun is the author behind @jonnysun and the book “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too” (HarperPerennial, 2017). When he isn’t tweeting, he is a designer, engineer, artist, playwright and comedy writer. He is currently a doctoral student at MIT, an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, and a creative researcher at the Harvard metaLAB, where he studies AI, social media and online community.

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