Alexander Reben b. 1985

Solo Exhibitions

2022 I'm Not A Painter, GAZELL.iO Project Space, London, UK
2021 AI-MAZING, GAZELL.iO Project Space, London, UK 
2019  Creative Work as Adversary: The AI Art of Alexander Reben, Emerson Media Art Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2019  Contrasts in Action Still, stARTup Art Fair – Special Project, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018  strange/r/evolution, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY, USA
2017  wax chromatic, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015  Engineering Psychology, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 
Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2021 Let's Talk About Text, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
2021 Hello Robot, Hyundai Motorstudio, Busan, Korea
2021 Hello Robot, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing, China 
2020 CURRENTS New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2020 Hello Robot, Neues Museum Biel, Biel, Switzerland 
2019  Hello Robot, V&A Museum of Design, Dundee, Scotland
2019  Hello Robot, Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián, Spain
2019  Hello Robot, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal
2018  Seeing Eye Awareness, Galerija Vžigalica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018  Gray Area Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018  CODAME, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018  ARTOBOTS, The Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018  Hello Robot, Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur Switzerland
2018  Robot Art, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL, USA
2018  LAST Festival, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
2017  DEMO DAY, Kunstraum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2017  Post City, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2017  Hello Robot, Design Museum Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
2017  Robots. Work. Our Future, Vienna Biennale, Vienna, Austria
2017  Hello Robot, MAK Contemporary Art Museum, Vienna, Austria
2017  Hierophant, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2017  The Basilisk, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2017  Hello Robot, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
2016  IDFA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016  WIRED 2016 UK, London, England
2016  Chicago Ideas Week, Chicago, IL, USA
2016  Camden Film Festival, Camden, ME, USA
2016  Perception & Time, Long Now Member Summit, San Francisco, CA, USA
2016  Seattle Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
2016  Cineglobe, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
2015  Happy Machine, Ottawa Maker Faire, Ottawa, Canada
2015  LAST Festival, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
2015  SPEIF, Special Project Space, San Jose, CA, USA
2014  COllISION, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2014  Robots in Residence, Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO, USA
2014  Sonic Gorilla, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick, UK
2014  TFI Interactive, Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY, USA
2014  New Works, Culture Shock Project Space, VOLTA, New York, NY, USA
2013  Robots in Residence, 1MSQFT, Miami, FL, USA
2013  Robots in Residence, Sheffield Doc / Fest, Sheffield, UK
2013  Robots in Residence, Nordisk Panorama, Malmo, Sweden
2013  Robots in Residence, Storyscapes at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY, USA
2012  COLLISION18:Present, Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA
2012  Robots in Residence, IDFA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011  ArtBots, Ghent, Belgium
2011  You Are My Sunshine: Axiom At Bumpkin Island Closing, Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA
2011  Solar absurdities, Bumpkin Island Art Encampment. Bumpkin Island, Boston, MA, USA
2011  IDENTITY ELEMENT: WORKS FROM THE NEW AXIOM GROUP, Axiom Center for New and 2011  Experimental Media, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA
2011  Defy Gravity, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
2009  Human Nature, ARS Electronica Festival, ARS Electronica, Linz, Austria
2009  School of The Streets, MIT Weisner Gallery, Cambridge, MA, USA
2008  Planet in Peril: Artists Sow Solutions, EYEBEAM, New York, NY, USA
2008  URECA, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook, NY, USA
2008  LICA Exhibition, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook, NY, USA
 
Collections
 
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
MIT Museum
 
Public Speaking

2018  Artist as Technologist, TTI Vanguard, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018  5 Dollars Can Save Planet Earth, TEDx San Francisco, CA, USA
2018  A.I. Fortunes, Dorkbot, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018  Art and Science, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018  If an AI makes it, is art still Art?, CODAME, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018  Artist’s lecture, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL, USA
2018  AI Creativity in Art, Neuroscience, and the Law, SXSW, Austin, TX, USA
2018  Stories of Song, Art & Tech, me Conference, Austin, TX, USA
2018  Using Art and Design to Investigate Humanity, Berkeley Institute of Design, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
2018  Design Field Notes, Jacobs Institute, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
2017  Living in a Robot?, MAK Museum, Vienna, Austria
2017  Future Humanity, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2017  LASER Lecture, Stanford University, Melno Park, CA, USA
2017  Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, CIIS University, San Francisco, CA, USA
2017  Judah vs. The Machines, TechCrunch, Digital Web Series
2016  Emotional Arcade Live, IDFA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016  Thinking Digital, Gateshead, England
2016  From cute droids to robots that stab you, it’s time to get personal with machines, WIRED UK, London, England
2016  The Implications of Artificial Intelligence, Chicago Ideas Week, Chicago, IL, , USA
2016  Internet of Things and Memory, Camden Film Festival, Camden, ME, USA
2016  LASER Art Lecture, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
2016  California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
2016  Philosophy and The Future of Technology, Stanford University, Melno Park, CA, USA
2016  Art and Social Robotics, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
2016  How Robots Mess With Our Minds, MIT Club of Southwest Florida, Naples, FL, USA
2015  Homo Digitalis, LAST Festival, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
2015  The BlabDroid Robots, Global Technology Symposium, San Mateo, CA, USA
2015  The Rise of the Social Robot, SXSW, Austin, TX, USA
2014  Human-Machine Empathy, UC Berkeley Philosophy Department, Berkeley, CA, USA
2014  Film making Robots and Human-Machine Relationships, Dorkbot, San Francisco, CA, USA
2014  Robotic Art, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
2014  BlabDroids, Engadget Expand, New York, NY, USA
2014  Drones, Phones, and Robotic Friends-Where Is Emergent Technology Taking Us?, Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO, USA
2014  Big Ideas Opening Session, Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO, USA
2014  The Needy Robot and Our Relationship with Emotional Machines, TTI Vanguard, Boston, MA, USA
2014  Social Robotics – Interaction and Design, Robo Forum, Moscow, Russia
2014  Igniters: BlabDroid, NBC and SyFy, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2014  Will Robots Take Over The World?, HuffPost Live
2013  BlabDroids — Self-Learning Social Cloud Robots, TEDx, Boston, MA
2013  BlabDroids — Self-Learning Social Cloud Robots, Google Solve for X, Boston, MA, USA
2013  Control Your Legal Landscape, Robo Business Conference, San Jose, CA, USA
2013  Transmedia and Robot Filmmaking, Doc/Tech, Points North at Camden Film Festival, Camden, MA, USA
2013  BlabDroids Around the World, Nordisk Panorama, Malmo, Sweden
2013  Transmedia and Technology, Transmedia Meet Up, Malmo, Sweden
2013  BlabDroids, Art as Research, Ignite at FOO, Sebastopol, CA, USA
2013  Robots in Residence, Sheffield Doc / Fest, Sheffield, England
2013  Robots as Journalists, Columbia Journalism School, New York, NY, USA
2013  Emotionally Evocative Robots, Thinking Digital, Gateshead, England
2013  Interactive Technology in Media, Media Future, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
2013  Storyscapes, Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY, USA
2012  Robots in Residence, Screening and Theory, DocLab at IDFA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012  Boxie, The Story Gathering Robot, Ignite Boston, Boston, MA, USA
 
Education
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Master of Science in Media Arts & Sciences (The Media Laboratory), 2010
State University of New York, Stony Brook. Bachelor of Science in Applied Math. Cum Laude, 2008.
 
Fellowships/Appointments/Memberships
 
2015 – 2017, UC Berkeley Psychology Visiting Scholar
2016 WIRED Innovation Fellow
2014 – Current, Stochastic Labs Residency
2013 – 2014, MIT CMS DocLab Fellow
2010, MIT Art Scholar
2009 – 2010, MIT Center for Future Storytelling Fellow
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Golden Key International Honor Society
 
Teaching/Mentorship
 
2021 - Facebook Open Arts Artist in Residence
2014 – Current, Stochastic Labs, Berkeley, CA, USA
2011, Interactive Technology Design, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
2010, PATD Promoting Art Through Design, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
2009 – 2010, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Advisor, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
2008, WISE (Women In Science and Engineering) Program, SUNY, USA Stony Brook, NY, USA
2004 – 2008, F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Competition, Patchogue, NY, USA