Daniel Shanken will take up the position of UmArts WASP-HS Art and AI Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Umeå School of Architecture (UMA). Daniel recently completed his PhD in Artistic Practice at the University of Kingston, London, and has an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. Daniel’s artwork explores the interplays between technology and cognition and their ongoing effects on the environment, consciousness and culture. His internationally exhibited artworks incorporate GAN-generated objects, Machine Learning algorithms, AI chatbots, and generative 3D environments within immersive architectural spaces. Daniel’s PhD included his solo exhibition ‘Cascades’ at the Stanley Picker Gallery which focused on the networks of information that run in the background of our lives, filtered and curated by intelligent algorithms that push bias and dissonance. His research in Umeå will aim to disrupt and reorganise the influence of Artificial Intelligence systems though spatial installations.
Daniel Shanken
