Peter Hirshberg has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 30 years. His sensibilities around how technology can empower people goes back to his early days at Apple, where he headed up Enterprise Markets under Steve Jobs. He's the author of the best seller “The Maker City: A practical guide to reinventing our cities”, which chronicles his work with the Obama White House fostering economic development in cities across America. In 2008 he founded Gray Area, a pioneering creative hub for the integrated practice of art and technology, a San Franciscan institution globally recognized for its forward-looking programming around creative coding education and cultural incubation .In 2016, Gray Area and Google instigated the first exhibition that paired artificial neural networks with artists, ushering in a new movement in Artificial Intelligence assisted artwork.
Recently he's been exploring new forms of narrative based on Large Language Models that can discover evidence, omens and meanings in seemingly random patterns to make plausible connections and, alarmingly, new forms of documentary history.
Peter Hirshberg will present the session ‘From Algorithms to Artistry’
