§ work · No. 035
Architecture After AI
2023–2024 · exhibitionExhibitions with 80 international participants, Austin and Boulder, 2023 to 2025
- year
- 2023–2024
- type
- exhibition
- status
- Mebane Gallery, Austin, 30 January to 24 February 2023; Bus Stop Gallery, Boulder, 6 September to 4 October 2024; University of Colorado Boulder, 2 December 2024 to 15 March 2025
- credit
- Curated by Daniel Koehler (concept, curation, projector display and crediting of the works), by Kory Bieg (accompanying symposium, curation) and Clay Odom (poster, organization, funding). Mebane Gallery, UT Austin; Bus Stop Gallery and University of Colorado Boulder.
- with
- Kory Bieg, Clay Odom
- program
- Latent Earth
- no.
- 035
The exhibition grew from Kory Bieg’s symposium proposal on AI-generated content. He partnered with Clay Odom, head of the exhibition committee and his practice partner, and with me as the computational designer. I expanded the show substantially by recruiting architects and artists from the communities that had formed on social media, built the projector display of the 2,000 works and managed their crediting. We designed the layout of all three exhibitions together, while Clay secured funding and ran the organization.
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Opening, Mebane Gallery, 2023 
The wall of 2,000 works, 2023 
Aai poster
1 / 3 · Opening, Mebane Gallery, 2023
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