Claire L. Evans
Wednesday, February 19 at 6 PM
40 Watt Club
285 W. Washington St.
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/claire-l-evans-how-to-chain-trip-making-human-music-with-ai
Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician exploring biology, technology, and culture. She will give a talk titled “How To Chain Trip: Making Human Music with AI” followed by a conversation about creative uses of technology for music and art making with Athens musicians Marcel Sletten and Oliver Domingo of Organically Programmed. Sletten and Organically Programmed will both perform after the conversation.
The event at the legendary 40 Watt Club in downtown Athens is free and open to the public. It is presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of its 2024 Global Georgia public events series, and in partnership with the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Department of Philosophy, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the UGA Arts Collaborative, and the UGA Music Business Program. It is also part of UGA’s Spring Signature Lecture Series.
Evans is the singer of the Grammy-nominated pop group YACHT, co-founder of VICE’s imprint for speculative fiction, Terraform, and co-editor, with Brian Merchant, of the accompanying anthology Terraform: Watch Worlds Burn (MCD Books, 2022). Her 2018 history of women in computing, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, published by Penguin Random House, has been translated into six languages and was named one of the Top 10 Best Nonfiction Tech Books of All Time in 2023.
Her writing has appeared in MIT Technology Review, The Verge, Rhizome.org, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Aeon, among others. Her 2022 profile of the lost hacker Susy Thunder was nominated for an ASME Award; a feature film adaptation of the story is currently in development at Paramount Pictures.
She has given invited talks at the Hirshhorn Museum, Walker Art Center, TEDx, La Gaité Lyrique, Google I/O, The New Museum, XOXO Festival, MUTEK, Goethe Institut, Manchester International Festival, SXSW, Gray Area, Neural Information Processing Systems, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Decentralized Web Summit, among others. She is a 2024 MacDowell Fellow.
She lives in Los Angeles, where she is an advisor to students in the Media Design Practices program at Art Center College of Design.