Artist & researcher Eric Drass joins FaB to talk about his paintings in the SCREENPLAY exhibition, his process, and how AI informs creative and cultural content.
Gather together by Eric’s work by the stairs at The Old Post Office, then follow the artist for his talk in the dark room projection space.
website: shardcore.org/spx
insta: @shardcore
Part of SCREENPLAY curated by Geoff Dunlop fringeartsbath.co.uk/screenplay
Free. All welcome.
Eric Drass, Private Language
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Eric Drass delivered a successful talk at BRLSI last night,
“The room was full, and they loved the talk. Eric Dass was as outstanding as I expected him to be.”
NB: the talk on Fri 30th at BRLSI is not one of FaB’s events, they did all the hard work there. Read Eric’s bio from the BRLSI website below:
From digital canvases to philosophical questions of authenticity, artist and thinker Eric Drass explores how AI is disrupting the creative world and redefining what art is in 2025.
Are artists the canaries in the coalmine for the wave of change that is coming for everyone. Can AI ever be a tool for genuine creativity? With a polarisation in views among high profile creatives like singer Nick Cave who believes AI can never be more than a facsimile of art because ‘algorithms don’t feel and data doesn’t suffer’, while Jeanette Winterson describes OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief to be beautiful and moving, what are we to make of the dichotomy? And that is before we get to Paul McCartney and the copyright issue!
If you were immersed in all the controversies surrounding “Unsupervised” by Refik Anadol at MOMA, and were perplexed that if AI wasn’t really art then why was it that the world’s leading art gallery was devoting so much space to it (…) attempts to contextualise the “AI revolution” within the broader history of art and investigate the tension between AI, art, culture and authenticity.
A visual artist who has been exploring AI as a contributing factor to his paintings for more than five years, Eric studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford and set out on a PhD addressing cognitive psycholinguistics before committing himself to making art. A perfect candidate then for engaging with the complexities of what it means to be an artist in a digital age.
In recent years Eric has addressed audiences of all ages at venues as varied as the Royal Institution, Glastonbury Festival, and for programmes across the BBC. (…).
Oricinal source: www.brlsi.org/ai-art-culture-with-eric-drass