Exhibitions

Solo Shows

 

2023

AI Am I?, The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Delusions of a Time Traveling Cactus, bitforms Gallery, New York, NY

2022

I’m Not A Painter, GAZELL.iO Project Space, London, England

2021

AI-Mazing, GAZELL.iO Project Space, London, England

2019

Creative Work as Adversary: The AI Art of Alexander Reben, Emerson Media Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Contrasts in Action Still, stARTup Art Fair – Special Project, Los Angeles, CA

2018

strange/r/evolution, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY

2017

wax chromatic, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2015

Engineering Psychology, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

Select Group Shows

 

2024

SMALL V01CE, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA

2023

Speak Art Into Life, TED, Vancouver, BC
Speak Art Into Life, TED Women, Atlanta, GA
Speak Art Into Life, Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO

2022

DALL·E, Artificial Imagination, bitforms Gallery, San Francisco, CA
ULTRAMARIN, Venice, IT
Hello Robot, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Creative Machine, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
Immutable, Vellum LA, Los Angeles, CA

2021

Let’s Talk About Text, Gazelli Art House, London, England
Hello Robot, Hyundai Motorstudio, Busan, Korea
Hello Robot, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing, China

2020

CURRENTS New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM
Hello Robot, Neues Museum Biel, Biel, Switzerland

2019

Hello Robot, V&A Museum of Design, Dundee, Scotland
Post City, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Hello Robot, Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián, Spain
Hello Robot, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal

2018

Seeing Eye Awareness, Galerija Vžigalica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Gray Area Festival, San Francisco, CA
CODAME, San Francisco, CA
ARTOBOTS, The Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hello Robot, Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur Switzerland
Robot Art, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
LAST Festival, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

2017

DEMO DAY, Kunstraum, Brooklyn, NY
Post City, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Hello Robot, Design Museum Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
Robots. Work. Our Future, Vienna Biennale, Vienna, Austria
Hello Robot, MAK Contemporary Art Museum, Vienna, Austria
Hierophant, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
The Basilisk, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hello Robot, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany

2016

IDFA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
WIRED 2016 UK, London, England
Chicago Ideas Week, Chicago, IL
Camden Film Festival, Camden, ME
Perception & Time, Long Now Member Summit, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery, Seattle, WA
Cineglobe, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

2015

Happy Machine, Ottawa Maker Faire, Ottawa, Canada
LAST Festival, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
SPEIF, Special Project Space, San Jose, CA

2014

COllISION, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
Robots in Residence, Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO
Sonic Gorilla, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick, UK
TFI Interactive, Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY
New Works, Culture Shock Project Space, VOLTA, New York, NY

2013

Robots in Residence, 1MSQFT, Miami, FL
Robots in Residence, Sheffield Doc / Fest, Sheffield, England
Robots in Residence, Nordisk Panorama, Malmo, Sweden
Robots in Residence, Storyscapes at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY

2012

COLLISION18:Present, Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, Jamaica Plain, MA
Robots in Residence, IDFA, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2011

ArtBots, Ghent, Belgium
You Are My Sunshine: Axiom At Bumpkin Island Closing, Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, Jamaica Plain, MA
Solar absurdities, Bumpkin Island Art Encampment. Bumpkin Island, Boston, MA
IDENTITY ELEMENT: WORKS FROM THE NEW AXIOM GROUP, Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, Jamaica Plain, MA
Defy Gravity, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA

2009

Human Nature, ARS Electronica Festival, ARS Electronica, Linz, Austria
School of The Streets, MIT Weisner Gallery, Cambridge, MA

2008

Planet in Peril: Artists Sow Solutions, EYEBEAM, New York, NY
URECA, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook, NY
LICA Exhibition, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook, NY

Collections

The Crocker Art Musem Permanent Collection
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
Facebook / Meta Art Collection
MIT Museum

Speaking / Appearances

2023

AI AM I?, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
AI AM I?, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV

2023

Backstory: Alexander Reben and Jesse Damiani, Crocker Art Museum, Sacromento, CA
The Creative Future of Generative AI, MIT, Cambridge MA
A.I.’s Rendezvous with Art: The Future of Creative Expression
, Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO
Generative AI as a Creativity Tool?, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
AI AM I?, CSU Fresno, Fresno, CA

2022

AI Am I?, Goldsmiths University, London, UK

2020

AI Art, CCA University, San Francisco, CA

2019

The Future of Creative AI, TTI Vanguard, San Francisco, CA
Human-Machine Collaboration and Artificial Intelligence, Startup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy, CIIS University, San Francisco, CA
Creative AI and IP, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
AI and Art, UC Merced, Merced, CA

2018

Artist as Technologist, TTI Vanguard, San Francisco, CA
5 Dollars Can Save Planet Earth, TEDx San Francisco, CA
A.I. Fortunes, Dorkbot, San Francisco, CA
Art and Science, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
If an AI makes it, is art still Art?, CODAME, San Francisco, CA
Artist’s lecture, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
AI Creativity in Art, Neuroscience, and the Law, SXSW, Austin, TX
Stories of Song, Art & Tech, me Conference, Austin, TX
Using Art and Design to Investigate Humanity, Berkeley Institute of Design, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Design Field Notes, Jacobs Institute, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

2017

Living in a Robot?, MAK Museum, Vienna, Austria
Future Humanity, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
LASER Lecture, Stanford University, Melno Park, CA
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, CIIS University, San Francisco, CA
Judah vs. The Machines, TechCrunch, Digital Web Series

2016

Emotional Arcade Live, IDFA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Thinking Digital, Gateshead, England
From cute droids to robots that stab you, it’s time to get personal with machines, WIRED UK, London, England
The Implications of Artificial Intelligence, Chicago Ideas Week, Chicago, IL
Internet of Things and Memory, Camden Film Festival, Camden, ME
LASER Art Lecture, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Philosophy and The Future of Technology, Stanford University, Melno Park, CA
Art and Social Robotics, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
How Robots Mess With Our Minds, MIT Club of Southwest Florida, Naples, FL

2015

Homo Digitalis, LAST Festival, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
The BlabDroid Robots, Global Technology Symposium, San Mateo, CA
The Rise of the Social Robot, SXSW, Austin, TX

2014

Human-Machine Empathy, UC Berkeley Philosophy Department, Berkeley, CA
Film making Robots and Human-Machine Relationships, Dorkbot, San Francisco, CA
Robotic Art, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
BlabDroids, Engadget Expand, New York, NY
Drones, Phones, and Robotic Friends-Where Is Emergent Technology Taking Us?, Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO
Big Ideas Opening Session, Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO
The Needy Robot and Our Relationship with Emotional Machines, TTI Vanguard, Boston, MA
Social Robotics – Interaction and Design, Robo Forum, Moscow, Russia
Igniters: BlabDroid, NBC and SyFy, Las Vegas, NV
Will Robots Take Over The World?, HuffPost Live

2013

BlabDroids — Self-Learning Social Cloud Robots, TEDx, Boston, MA
BlabDroids — Self-Learning Social Cloud Robots, Google Solve for X, Boston, MA
Control Your Legal Landscape, Robo Business Conference, San Jose, CA
Transmedia and Robot Filmmaking, Doc/Tech, Points North at Camden Film Festival, Camden, MA
BlabDroids Around the World, Nordisk Panorama, Malmo, Sweden
Transmedia and Technology, Transmedia Meet Up, Malmo, Sweden
BlabDroids, Art as Research, Ignite at FOO, Sebastopol, CA
Robots in Residence, Sheffield Doc / Fest, Sheffield, England
Robots as Journalists, Columbia Journalism School, New York, NY
Emotionally Evocative Robots, Thinking Digital, Gateshead, England
Interactive Technology in Media, Media Future, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
Storyscapes, Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY

2012

Robots in Residence, Screening and Theory, DocLab at IDFA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Boxie, The Story Gathering Robot, Ignite Boston, Boston, MA

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

2023 – 2024, OpenAI Artist in Residence
2021, Facebook Open Arts Artist in Residence
2021, Affilliate, MetaLab Harvard University
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

2019, 2020, Mentor, Sundance New Frontiers Story LAB, Sundance, CO
2019, Instructor Social and Creative Robotics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
2014 – Current, Stochastic Labs, Berkeley, CA
2011, Instructor Interactive Technology Design, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2010, Instructor PATD Promoting Art Through Design, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2009 – 2010, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Advisor, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2008, WISE (Women In Science and Engineering) Program, SUNY Stony Brook, NY
2004 – 2008, F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Competition, Patchogue, NY