Project Overview
Nettrice Gaskins is an African American digital artist, researcher and educator who uses algorithms and machine learning as her media, exploring what she calls “techno-vernacular creativity.” For “FUTURES,” Gaskins created a series of 11 portraits of “Featured Futurists” who are included in the exhibition. To make these intricate works, Gaskins combines an image of each subject with an A.I. neutral network application called Deep Dream, which synthesizes images and patterns to create new aesthetic vocabulary beyond the scope of human thought. The resulting images open new frontiers of artistic expression while posing moral and ethical questions about future uses of A.I.
Alum Research
Dr. Nettrice R. Gaskins is an African American digital artist, academic, cultural critic and advocate of STEAM fields. In her work she explores "techno-vernacular creativity" and Afrofuturism. Dr. Gaskins teaches, writes, "fabs”, and makes art using algorithms and machine learning.
