Workshop on Generative Art, Architecture, and Engineering Collaboration

Saturday, April 22, 2023, 1 - 6pm

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Workshop on Generative Art, Architecture & Engineering Collaboration

This event will be conducted in-person in The Civic Projects Lab and through Zoom. 

For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.
For In-Person attendance, please 

The Cooper Union is hosting an inaugural Workshop on Generative Art, Architecture, and Engineering Collaboration. For the Workshop, leading practitioners in the field of generative art, design, and machine learning will present their work and engage in a discussion led by students. This extends a multi-year effort to explore generative algorithms and machine learning at Cooper Union through a series of interdisciplinary seminars and studios, where students from the art, architecture, and engineering schools work together on group projects. The Workshop takes place at the Civic Projects Lab, a new interdisciplinary exchange where student work is mounted for display and interaction. Refreshments will be served.

The workshop is hosted by Benjamin Aranda, assistant professor in Cooper''s The Irwin S. Chan School of Architecture, and Sam Keene, professor of electrical engineering in Cooper's Albert Nerken School of Engineering. Guest speakers include Adam Berninger, founder of Tender; artist and educator Neta Bomani; writer and artist Ingrid Burrington; Marcelo Coelho, head of design at Formlabs, MIT Department of Architecture, R. Luke DuBois, associate professor of integrated design and media at New York University; artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed; Andrew Kudless, professor at University of Houston and founder of Matsys; and Zach Lieberman, professor at MIT Media Lab.

Visitors must show security proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test by a third party (not home test) within three days of their visit to campus or a negative rapid test result taken by a third party (not home test) on the day of the visit to campus.

Located at 41 Cooper Square, on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.