Description of CLASP presentation
Dr. Memmott’s presentation will showcase “Introducing Lary”—an ongoing AI project that explores the re-invention of the self following life-changing cancer surgery and treatment. This talk profiles the artist’s experience with a laryngeal cancer diagnosis and the medical interventions that follow. Utilizing a variety of AI platforms for both video and image production along with journal entries and medical reports as text prompts, the resulting work is a set of distinctive media that range, in Dr. Memmott’s words, “from the mythic to the horrific; the historical to the speculative.” Though at times the resulting media may emphasize the emergent body horror of cancer surgeries and treatments, this work serves as a form of therapeutic aesthetics for the artist as patient, and a fearless exploration of how AI workflows can enable art practices as a form of cripistemological expression. In addition to exploring features of this project, this presentation will also include two video works: Introducing Lary: The San Biagio Frescoes of Pietro Golamuto, and Introducing Lary: A Cripistemology of Breath. This presentation is available to all students, faculty, staff, and is open to the public.
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department
Mass Communication
Location
SLC 120, Winona State University
Zoom Location
Start Date
26-2-2025 6:00 PM
End Date
26-2-2025 7:00 PM
Presentation Type
Presentation
Included in
Art and Design Commons, Art Practice Commons, Communication Technology and New Media Commons, Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Digital Humanities Commons, Education Commons, Graphic Communications Commons, Mass Communication Commons, Speech and Rhetorical Studies Commons
Cripistemology and Creative Practice: Disability, Aesthetics, Digital Art, Generative AI
SLC 120, Winona State University
Dr. Memmott’s presentation will showcase “Introducing Lary”—an ongoing AI project that explores the re-invention of the self following life-changing cancer surgery and treatment. This talk profiles the artist’s experience with a laryngeal cancer diagnosis and the medical interventions that follow. Utilizing a variety of AI platforms for both video and image production along with journal entries and medical reports as text prompts, the resulting work is a set of distinctive media that range, in Dr. Memmott’s words, “from the mythic to the horrific; the historical to the speculative.” Though at times the resulting media may emphasize the emergent body horror of cancer surgeries and treatments, this work serves as a form of therapeutic aesthetics for the artist as patient, and a fearless exploration of how AI workflows can enable art practices as a form of cripistemological expression. In addition to exploring features of this project, this presentation will also include two video works: Introducing Lary: The San Biagio Frescoes of Pietro Golamuto, and Introducing Lary: A Cripistemology of Breath. This presentation is available to all students, faculty, staff, and is open to the public.
