Curriculum Vitae

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Write a convoluted exhibition title for Alexander Reben's show in the basement of the Charlie James Gallery Charlie James Gallery Los Angeles, CA
2023 AI Am I? Crocker Art Museum Sacramento, CA
2023 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
2019 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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Augmented Intelligence Christie's New York, NY
2024–2025 Encoded: Art With No Boundaries Visu Contemporary Miami, FL
2024 SMALL V01CE Honor Fraser Los Angeles, CA
2023 Speak Art Into Life TED Vancouver, BC
2023 Speak Art Into Life TED Women Atlanta, GA
2023 Speak Art Into Life Aspen Ideas Festival Aspen, CO
2022 DALL·E, Artificial Imagination bitforms gallery San Francisco, CA
2022 ULTRAMARIN Venice, Italy
2022 Hello Robot Vitra Design Museum Weil am Rhein, Germany
2022 Creative Machine Goldsmiths University London, UK
2022 Immutable Vellum LA Los Angeles, CA
2021 Let's Talk About Text Gazelli Art House London, England
2021 Hello Robot Hyundai Motorstudio Busan, Korea
2021 Hello Robot Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, China
2020 CURRENTS New Media Festival Santa Fe, NM
2020 Hello Robot Neues Museum Biel Biel, Switzerland
2019 Hello Robot V&A Museum of Design Dundee, Scotland
2019 Post City Ars Electronica Linz, Austria
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
2018 CODAME San Francisco, CA
2018 ARTOBOTS The Midway Gallery San Francisco, CA
2018 Hello Robot Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2018 Robot Art Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, IL
2018 LAST Festival Stanford University Stanford, CA
2017 DEMO DAY Kunstraum Brooklyn, NY
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
2017 Hello Robot Vitra Design Museum Weil am Rhein, Germany
2016 IDFA Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 WIRED 2016 UK London, England
2016 Chicago Ideas Week Chicago, IL
2016 Camden Film Festival Camden, ME
2016 Perception & Time Long Now Member Summit San Francisco, CA
2016 Seattle Art Fair Charlie James Gallery Seattle, WA
2016 Cineglobe CERN Geneva, Switzerland
2015 Happy Machine Ottawa Maker Faire Ottawa, Canada
2015 LAST Festival Stanford University Stanford, CA
2015 SPEIF Special Project Space San Jose, CA
2014 COllISION Boston Cyberarts Gallery Jamaica Plain, MA
2014 Robots in Residence Aspen Ideas Festival Aspen, CO
2014 Sonic Gorilla Warwick Arts Centre Warwick, UK
2014 TFI Interactive Tribeca Film Festival New York, NY
2014 New Works Culture Shock Project Space, VOLTA New York, NY
2013 Robots in Residence 1MSQFT Miami, FL
2013 Robots in Residence Sheffield Doc/Fest Sheffield, England
2013 Robots in Residence Nordisk Panorama Malmo, Sweden
2013 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
2012 Robots in Residence DocLab at IDFA Amsterdam, 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
2011 Solar Absurdities Bumpkin Island Art Encampment Bumpkin Island, Boston, MA
2011 Identity Element: Works from the New Axiom Group Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media Jamaica Plain, MA
2011 Defy Gravity MIT Media Lab Cambridge, MA
2009 Human Nature Ars Electronica Festival Linz, Austria
2009 School of The Streets MIT Wiesner Gallery Cambridge, MA
2008 Planet in Peril: Artists Sow Solutions EYEBEAM New York, NY
2008 URECA SAC Gallery Stony Brook, NY
2008 LICA Exhibition SAC Gallery Stony Brook, NY

Collections

Crocker Art Museum The Sentinel of Memory in the Valley of Vulnerability Sacramento, CA
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
Facebook / Meta Art Collection
MIT Museum Cambridge, MA

Fellowships, Appointments & Memberships

2025– Artist in Residence Meta
2023–2024 Artist in Residence OpenAI
2021 Open Arts Artist in Residence Facebook
2021 Affiliate metaLAB, Harvard University Cambridge, MA
2015–2017 Visiting Scholar, Psychology UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA
2016 WIRED Innovation Fellow WIRED
2014–2025 Resident Stochastic Labs Berkeley, CA
2013–2014 DocLab Fellow MIT Comparative Media Studies Cambridge, MA
2010 MIT Art Scholar MIT Cambridge, MA
2009–2010 Fellow MIT Center for Future Storytelling Cambridge, MA
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Golden Key International Honour Society

Speaking & Appearances

2026 TECHNĒ 3.0: Art in the Age of Robots Chicago, IL
2026 Fast Company Grill at SXSW Austin, TX
2025 AI-Powered Art: The Influence of Robots on Creative Expression NVIDIA GTC San Jose, CA
2025 Web Summit Qatar Doha, Qatar
2024 Art + Tech Summit Christie's New York, NY
2024 Berkeley Art, Finance, and Law Symposium UC Berkeley School of Law Berkeley, CA
2024 The Culture Show GBH Boston
2023 AI Am I? UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA
2023 AI Am I? University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV
2023 Backstory: Alexander Reben and Jesse Damiani Crocker Art Museum Sacramento, CA
2023 The Creative Future of Generative AI MIT Cambridge, MA
2023 A.I.'s Rendezvous with Art: The Future of Creative Expression Aspen Ideas Festival Aspen, CO
2023 Generative AI as a Creativity Tool? UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA
2023 AI Am I? CSU Fresno Fresno, CA
2022 AI Am I? Goldsmiths University London, UK
2020 AI Art California College of the Arts San Francisco, CA
2019 The Future of Creative AI TTI Vanguard San Francisco, CA
2019 Human-Machine Collaboration and Artificial Intelligence stARTup Art Fair San Francisco, CA
2019 Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco, CA
2019 Creative AI and IP Harvard University Cambridge, MA
2019 AI and Art UC Merced Merced, CA
2018 Artist as Technologist TTI Vanguard San Francisco, CA
2018 Five Dollars Can Save Planet Earth TEDxSanFrancisco San Francisco, CA
2018 A.I. Fortunes Dorkbot San Francisco, CA
2018 Art and Science The Exploratorium San Francisco, CA
2018 If an AI makes it, is art still Art? CODAME San Francisco, CA
2018 Artist's Lecture Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, IL
2018 AI Creativity in Art, Neuroscience, and the Law SXSW Austin, TX
2018 Stories of Song, Art & Tech me Convention Austin, TX
2018 Using Art and Design to Investigate Humanity Berkeley Institute of Design, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA
2018 Design Field Notes Jacobs Institute, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA
2017 Living in a Robot? MAK Museum Vienna, Austria
2017 Future Humanity Ars Electronica Linz, Austria
2017 LASER Lecture Stanford University Menlo Park, CA
2017 Ethics and Artificial Intelligence California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco, CA
2017 Judah vs. The Machines TechCrunch, digital web series
2016 Emotional Arcade Live IDFA Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Thinking Digital Gateshead, England
2016 From cute droids to robots that stab you WIRED UK London, England
2016 The Implications of Artificial Intelligence Chicago Ideas Week Chicago, IL
2016 Internet of Things and Memory Camden Film Festival Camden, ME
2016 LASER Art Lecture UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA
2016 Philosophy and The Future of Technology Stanford University Menlo Park, CA
2016 Art and Social Robotics California College of the Arts San Francisco, CA
2016 How Robots Mess With Our Minds MIT Club of Southwest Florida Naples, FL
2015 Homo Digitalis LAST Festival, Stanford University Stanford, CA
2015 The BlabDroid Robots Global Technology Symposium San Mateo, CA
2015 The Rise of the Social Robot SXSW Austin, TX
2014 Human-Machine Empathy UC Berkeley Philosophy Department Berkeley, CA
2014 Filmmaking Robots and Human-Machine Relationships Dorkbot San Francisco, CA
2014 Robotic Art California College of the Arts San Francisco, CA
2014 BlabDroids Engadget Expand New York, NY
2014 Drones, Phones, and Robotic Friends — Where Is Emergent Technology Taking Us? Aspen Ideas Festival Aspen, CO
2014 Big Ideas Opening Session Aspen Ideas Festival Aspen, CO
2014 The Needy Robot and Our Relationship with Emotional Machines TTI Vanguard Boston, MA
2014 Social Robotics — Interaction and Design Robo Forum Moscow, Russia
2014 Igniters: BlabDroid NBC and SyFy Las Vegas, NV
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
2013 Control Your Legal Landscape RoboBusiness Conference San Jose, CA
2013 Transmedia and Robot Filmmaking, Doc/Tech Points North at Camden Film Festival Camden, ME
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
2013 Robots in Residence Sheffield Doc/Fest Sheffield, England
2013 Robots as Journalists Columbia Journalism School New York, NY
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
2012 Robots in Residence, Screening and Theory DocLab at IDFA Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 Boxie, The Story Gathering Robot Ignite Boston Boston, MA

Education

2010 M.S. Media Arts & Sciences, MIT Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
2008 B.S. Applied Mathematics, Cum Laude State University of New York, Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY

Teaching & Mentorship

2019–2020 Mentor Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Sundance, UT
2019 Instructor, Social and Creative Robotics UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA
2014–2025 Mentor Stochastic Labs Berkeley, CA
2011 Instructor, Interactive Technology Design MIT Cambridge, MA
2010 Instructor, 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 Stony Brook, NY
2004–2008 FIRST Robotics Competition Patchogue, NY