David Young
David Young is an artist who has spent his entire career at the leading edge of emerging technologies. From projects using early supercomputers and the dawn of the web, to contemporary global innovation & artistic initiatives, David has been a champion for new forms of creativity & expression enabled by technology.
His current work explores how beauty and aesthetic experiences can give a fresh start to how we think about artificial intelligence. This work, which uses AI/machine learning, is a return to his roots where he began at the height of the 1980’s AI boom. He has taught at both Art Center College of Design and Parsons at The New School. David has a master’s degree in visual studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, & bachelor’s degree in computer science from UCSC.
Analog
Art On-Chain
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Tabula Rasa (b67m,1400,a4), 2019
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Tabula Rasa (b67m,8100,a2), 2019
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A Line is a Pixel Expressing Itself (m b70h,9011,4-20,4,22,11,4,27-c), 2020
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Learning Nature (b63h,4000-19,4,9,8,16,17), 2019
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Learning Nature (z12,cr,a), 2018
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Learning Nature (b63c,2422,3), 2019
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Learning Nature (b38,4016,16), 2018
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Learning Nature (b63f,3000,19,4,10,14,40,56-e21), 2019
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Learning Nature (b63e,4400,19,1,29,18,17,37), 2019
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Winter Woods (b59g,7300,a8), 2019
Articles
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BEYOND PERCEPTION: THE ART OF DAVID YOUNG
In this article, we focus on David Young’s art from 2017 to the present and feature an exclusive interview with the artist himself. He shares the creative process behind his work.
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TABULA RASA - RETHINKING THE INTELLIGENCE OF MACHINE MINDS
In Tabula Rasa, David Young focuses on the philosophical foundations of AI art, questioning whether machine minds operate through rationality or something more similar to human emotion.
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LITTLE AI
David Young explores the potential of working with small-scale AI systems, as a counterpoint to the dominance of big data-driven machine learning. Using GANs, he investigates how AI interprets the natural world.
Exhibitions
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UNTITLED ART FAIR, MIAMI, 2024
We presented a curated selection of pioneering AI and technology-driven artworks at Untitled Miami Art Fair, a leading contemporary art fair held annually on the sands of Miami Beach.
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NOISE MEDIA ART FAIR, ISTANBUL, 2024
At the NOISE Media Art Fair, the gallery presented mixed media artworks by acclaimed local and international artists like Memo Akten, Emre Meydan, David Young, Mario Klingemann, and Kevin Abosch.
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TELEPHONE PAINTINGS, MONTREAL, 2021
Feat. artworks by Cornelia Sollfrank, Sofia Crespo, Tom White, David Young & more, this exhibition traces the desire lines between the analog and the digital.
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AUTOMAT UND MENSCH, ZÜRICH, 2019
The Automat und Mensch exhibition is, above all, an opportunity to put important work by generative artists spanning the last 70 years into context by showing it in a single location.
