Cocktails & Conversation: A.I. and the Arts with James Wines and Phillip Denny

Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. For this program, James Wines, founder of renowned environmental design studio SITE (Sculpture in the Environment) in New York, will discuss his thoughts about Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)—its fears, myths, powers, and promises—with writer Phillip Denny over a custom-crafted cocktail.

Wines has spent much of his career challenging the notion that architecture is an act of formal invention, writing that “SITE’s work is about inversion, fusion, intervention, exaggeration—examining the elements of construction from a different point of view." Prior to establishing SITE, Wines was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and for 10 years worked as a sculptor in Italy. His current work and writings continue his focus on environmental issues and the cognitive aspects of design—the brainpower’s neural circuitry (hand drawing) vs. the computer’s digital circuitry (A.I.).

Speaker:
James Wines, Founder and President, SITE

Moderator:
Phillip Denny, Writer

Organized by
AIANY Architecture Dialogue Committee
 

James Wines