Generation 2 Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies explores how humans and technology have always evolved together. This immersive, traveling art exhibition blends the past, present, and future of technology and language through physical, digital, and written media. Inviting viewers to consider their relationships and attitudes towards current and emerging technologies, this show and catalog act as both an action and a call to action. Generation 2 Generation provokes a reflection on how technology both enhances and evolves our understandings of politics and society, matter and nature, our world and ourselves. New technologies - with Artificial Intelligence being the latest and most rapid form - should induce neither  blind optimism, nor crippling fear. 

AI, for example, continues to rapidly progress and improve, and Generation 2 Generation encourages discourse about its place in our personal lives, relationships, and broader society. The unifying element of a font created by AI, creates an aesthetic that challenges technology itself. Asking and answering these questions has seen the production of a monumental, poetic landscape of reclaimed electronic waste; an interactive mirror that “reads” human movement and translates it into dynamic code; a print- and image-based installation, featuring a custom AI font that evolves past human understanding, beyond the limits of the screen or page;  play-based installation of stencils, coloring books, and paint; concrete poetry made of precious metals recovered from mining slag and computer waste — alchemized artifacts of digital communication; and, media-rich (generative/oral/aural/digital) performances of AI-powered poetry, updating an ancient art form for the approaching posthuman age. Neural Networks, as well as novel understandings of natural networks  – are enabling and enhancing unique forms of creative exploration in and with various matter and materials, life and non-life. Generation to Generation hopes to open up those spaces for even greater exploration.