Exploring the implications of AI on humanity and the future.
Fostering robust discourse, thoughtful design, mindful engagement, and ethical advancement towards an empowering co-creation with Artificial Intelligence.

Amy Karle has been working with Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networking, Machine Learning, and generative design since 2015, probing the potential impacts of AI when our digital, biological, and existential realms are inseparably intertwined. She collaborates with leading companies, organizations, and institutions, and contributes to global think tanks, hackathons, and talks on AI, sparking imagination and advocating for an ethical and empowering coexistence with AI. Her AI art and design works have received international acclaim, and are exhibited in major museums worldwide. Using AI as both a medium and a subject in her work, she poses critical questions, illuminates future visions, and encourages us to actively shape the future that we desire.

We are on the brink of a transformative era where AI permeates every aspect of life. Amidst this exponential whirlwind, Amy Karle champions a future where AI does not just happen to us, but is consciously crafted and used in a way that is ethical, beneficial, sustainable, and enhancing.

Fusing AI, art, design, technology, and living systems, Karle’s work exemplifies and advocates for a future where humans and AI symbiotically coexist and co-create. She integrates AI into her practice, not just as a functional tool, but as a collaborator fostering a deep understanding of its ethical and existential dimensions that influence and challenge humanity and our future. This research and use fuels her insight into AI’s profound impacts, potentials, and challenges.

Karle’s approach transcends traditional computational aspects of AI and delves into the intersections between physical beings and the digital realm, particularly in the context of scientific and medical advancements, identity, unraveling the complexities of AI’s role in society, potential impacts on humanity, and what we can do to sculpt various futures.

Illuminating a future where our digital, biological, and existential realms are inseparably intertwined, Karle’s work emerges as a call for a healthy, sustainable, and empowering synergy between humans and AI.  Her work in AI acts as a mirror to society, and as mirror that both reflects and inspires who we might become through the ethical and thoughtful design, use, and development of AI.

“AI is a tool that can enhance our potential, improve our world, our environment, and quality of life… but are we using it that way?” – Amy Karle

There is immense transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence to co-create unprecedented change and impact, both positive and negative. Karle poses fundamental questions, researches hands-on, and illuminates the powerful potentials and risks of AI with far-future vision, fostering critical discourse, and promoting intentional and ethical design and deployment of AI for the well-being of the future.

As medical and biotechnological progress continues, Artificial Intelligence will increasingly enmesh with biology, heavily influencing many living and physical systems, including our bodies and the environment. In this era, we could unlock solutions to complex global challenges, ranging from healthcare to resource access and climate change. There are also numerous ethical implications and major concerns. The key lies in conscious, intentional creation and use of these tools, with both the present and future’s well-being in mind.

Encouraging a future shaped by conscious interaction with AI, Karle’s advocacy for ethical AI encourages a future where AI supports and augments, not replaces, human potential and the natural world. Karle invites us to envision and create a world transformed by ethical and mindful engagement with AI, enhancing humanity’s potential and stimulating unprecedented advancements.

There is a dynamic interplay between research, innovation, art, and design in Amy Karle’s creative process. She employs emerging and exponential technologies, including AI, to create and envision things never possible before. In working with emergent technologies, Karle’s primary aim is to investigate potentials, and generate new forms, expressions, processes, and thinking that could not be spawned in any other way. The commitment to engage emergent technologies including AI transcends mere use; it embodies a process of discovery that crosses disciplines to spark new concepts, workflows, materials, tool development, and visions in the process. The final works stand as artifacts of this explorative journey, imbued with new aesthetics and new ways of thinking from using these new tools.

Karle merges the computational with living systems to accelerate the realization of future visions into tangible form, some of which continue to evolve and adapt, mirroring the flux of our rapidly changing world and offering dynamic representations of a fast-approaching future. The artwork resonates with questions and aspirations inherent in the technology that co-created it. Karle’s art and design work with AI both function to serve as potent change agents and prompt inquiry.

Karle’s design work carries a functional purpose, responding across disciplines including biodesign, body design, fashion design, architecture, transportation, autonomy, tech design, interaction design, and futures design. Guided by a commitment to support living and natural systems and foster a better world, she previews a future where AI is harnessed to support natural systems, creative innovative products and processes, enrich lives, amplify potential, and shape sustainable futures.

Her bio-technological creations span from biodesign—the functional aspect, to bioart—the emotionally resonant aspect. These reflect our evolving symbiosis with AI, demonstrating potential ways to leverage technology to enhance internal structures, augment biological functions, and navigate the philosophical, ethical, and emotional dimensions of bio-digital embodiment and disembodiment. AI’s emerging capability to replicate us—once a science fiction concept—has now become technological fact.

Leveraging AI as a research tool and collaborator, Karle constructs dynamic works that serve to reshape our understanding of what it means to be creative, what it means to be human, and even what it means to be alive, her work shapes the future of totally new kind of AI-human interaction, ultimately using AI as a mirror to reflect profound questions about what it means to be human, consciousness, creativity, agency, ownership, the future, and who we might become.

2019 (cntd.)
La Fabrique Du Vivant, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Life. As We Know It, And Beyond, MuseOn, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2018
Post Life, Beijing Media Art Biennale, Beijing, China
Ars Electronica Export, Tokyo, Japan
Layers of Life: What is Life in The Biotech Era?, Centrum Nauki Kopernik, Warsaw, Poland
Future Humanity – Our Shared Planet, Ars Electronica, Beijing, China
L.A.S.T., SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, California, USA

2017
Collaborative Futures – Design, Technology and Art, Good Design Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
Artificial Intelligence: AI / The Other I, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
FILE Electronic Language International Festival (Festival de Linguagem Eletrônica), São Paulo, Brazil
The Body & Technology: A Conversational Metamorphosis, San Francisco, CA, USA

2016
Autodesk Pier 9 Artist in Residence Fall Show, San Francisco, CA, USA
Imagine Science Film Festival, NY, USA
Mykonos Multimedia Festival, Mykonos, Greece
Autodesk Pier 9 Artist in Residence Spring AiR Show, San Francisco, CA, USA

2015
Resonance, Performance at Signal Culture, NY, USA

IMPACT & INNOVATION Through Collaboration

Engaging AI across diverse fields to expand creative horizons, foster innovative outcomes, develop transformative products, processes, and projects, and to unlock unprecedented opportunities for profound impact.

Karle invites us into a world where AI expands our creative horizons, fostering innovative products, processes, projects, aesthetics, and unique opportunities. Each of her collaborations underscores her talent for realizing the extraordinary synergy between AI and creativity when applied to a concept or field.

The world of Amy Karle is one where artificial intelligence opens the floodgates of creative potential, sparking innovation and generating a new wave of exciting possibilities. Her extensive collaborations, constituting a dynamic mix of projects, clients, and commissions across industry and institutions, stand as a testament to her exceptional ability to create impact and foster innovation through collaboration.

Collaboration forms the heart of Amy Karle’s practice, and it is through multifaceted exchange that she catalyzes and develops meaningful projects and advancements. Each of her collaborations underscores her talent for materializing the extraordinary synergy between AI and creativity when applied to a concept or field, and her ability to bring together diverse ideas with ethical innovation to generate previously untapped opportunities. Her collaborations stand as proof of her approach in harnessing AI to foster novel opportunities, new aesthetics, transformational designs, products, processes, and projects; igniting ideas, and inspiring collective progress towards common goals.

Her cross-disciplinary approach stands as a testament to AI’s universal applicability, offering applications and solutions that redefine our interactions, tools, and outcomes. With every project, Karle continues to deliver high-value collaborations that leave lasting, meaningful impacts.

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