The LA+D Public Lecture Series is pleased to present AI-artist and educator Nettrice R. Gaskins, who will speak about her digital art practice as a self-identified Afrofuturist, followed by a Q&A and small reception. In 2021, her AI-generated portraits were shown at the Smithsonian exhibition "Featured Futurists." Currently, her large-scale portrait of Greg Tate is an outdoor mural at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in Brooklyn, New York, through April 2023.
This event is free and open to the general public.
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About the speaker
Nettrice R. Gaskins, Ph.D. is a 2021 Ford Global Fellow and the assistant director of the Lesley STEAM Learning Lab next door to LA+D at Lesley University’s Graduate School of Education. Gaskins' AI-generated artworks can be viewed in journals, magazines, books, museums, and online. She earned a BFA in Computer Graphics with Honors from Pratt Institute in 1992 and an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. She received a Ph.D. in Digital Media from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014 and published her first full-length book Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom through The MIT Press (2021).