How to Train Your Algorithm on display through May

Did you know that sometimes artificial intelligence helps create physical objects, as well as the fully digital ones we’re used to? 

You can see some of these sculptures as part of “How to Train your Algorithm,” a new exhibit from Christina Shivers, the 2023 Ventulett NEXT Fellow, on display in Crosland Tower’s second floor through May. 

“This exhibit explores AI and its relationship to the development of ecologically experimental material and craft practices in architecture,” she explained. “I produced it as part of my Ventulett NEXT Fellowship in the School of Architecture.”

The pieces display the disparate forces at work in Shivers’ research, which broadly focuses on the intersection of technology, the environmental and economic thought specifically within the design disciplines. 

As an academic, architect and musician, Shivers pulls from her bachelor’s in music with a concentration in music theory from Florida State, her master’s in architecture from Tech, and her PhD in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

“I sincerely hope everyone who sees the exhibit enjoys it,” she said.