Ali Hossaini
Ali Hossaini | |
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| Born | 1962 |
| Education | PhD, philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, 1994
MA, Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, 1986 BA, Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis, 1986 Master Printing, International Center for Photography, 1988 Masters Poetry Seminar, Columbia University, 1990 |
| Occupation(s) | artist, philosopher, consultant, television producer and businessperson |
| Organization(s) | Fellow National Gallery
Co-Director & Co-founder, National Gallery X, National Gallery Visiting Senior Research Fellow & Programme Leader – 'Connected Culture', King's College London Fellow Royal Society of Arts Digital Media Thought Leader, Lord Cultural Resources Associate, Digital Scholar & Curator, Futurecity |
| Notable work | Ouroboros, Solo show, Multichannel Video Installation, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York City, 2010
Epiphany, multimedia performance, Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, 2015. The Impact of 5G on culture & creative industry, keynote, Global congress of [[Wireless Broadband Alliance]], Liverpool, 2016. Hossaini, Ali (2017). Manual of Digital Museum Planning. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1442278974. Is Art Alive? How AI Technology & Algorithms are Changing the Nature of Creativity, Art Leaders Network, The New York Times conference, Berlin, 2018. Hossaini, Ali (2019). "Putting agency on the agenda: What biology tells us about threat from AI". RUSI Journal. 164 (5): 120–144. doi:10.1080/03071847.2019.1694264. S2CID 213421597. Archived from the original on 2020-11-25. Retrieved 2020-04-21. |
| Board member of | Young Vic Theatre |
| Awards | University Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
Woolrich Fellowship for Poetry, Columbia University Fellowship, International Center for Photography |
| Website | http://pantar.com |
Ali Hossaini (b. West Virginia, 1962) is an American artist, philosopher, theatrical producer, television producer, and businessperson. In 2010, The New York Times described him as a "biochemist turned philosopher turned television producer turned visual poet". In 2017 Hossaini published the Manual of Digital Museum Planning and subsequently became co-director of National Gallery X, a King's College London partnership that explores the future of art and cultural institutions. Prior to National Gallery X Hossaini worked with King's College to develop Connected Culture, an action research programme that tested cultural applications for 5G supported by Ericsson. As a working artist and producer, Hossaini's genre-spanning career includes installations, performances and hundreds of media projects. Since 2018 Hossaini has worked with security think tank Royal United Services Institute and, in a 2019 special edition of its journal, he assessed the threat from AI from the perspective of biology.