David Clark

David Clark is a multi-award-winning Canadian artist who produces dream-like, free-associative, interactive essays. The essays discuss how we create meaning through philosophical, logical, poetic, visual, accidental, and emotional means.

His works have been exhibited at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, the Biennale Nationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, Trois-Rivières, Sundance Film Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Transmediale, and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. His work won First Prize at the FILE Festival in Sao Paulo and ‘Best in Show’ at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. In 2011, his net art project “88 Constellations for Wittgenstein” won the Nova Scotia Masterworks Award.

He has taught at the University of Cambridge, Paris 8, Utah English Department, and L.I.S.A. Salon in New York. She teaches Expanded Media at NSCAD University and is part of the ITP/IMA program at NYU in New York during the second semester of 2023. She holds an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from King’s College in Halifax. She has also studied at the Whitney Program and the Canadian Film Centre.

Because it’s there

The drive towards AI seems to be propelled by a dangerous hubristic tendency in the human nature encapsulated by the tautological phrase “because it’s there”. This talk will examine the recent warnings about the dangers of AI by “the grandfather of AI”, the British-Canadian Computer scientist Geoffrey Everest Hinton, who is both the great-great grandson of the inventor of Boolean Logic, George Boole, and a relative of George Everest, after whom the mountain was named.

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