Dylan Schenker

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Dylan Schenker is a PhD student with an MA from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he began the research on AI aesthetics that continues to be his focus at Concordia University.

More specifically, his work focuses on transgressive generative AI experimentation done by artists and amateurs alike. Rather than take an antagonistic approach to the technology he looks at how it can be appropriated or reclaimed to challenge dominant aesthetic paradigms in radical and oftentimes unnerving ways.

He has presented his research at the Union for Democratic Communication and the Association of Internet Researchers. He also helped lead a seminar and workshop at the University of Bergen in Norway on how theories of the monster and monstrosity relate to AI output in generative AI communities online.

Outside of academia he has worked as both a trend researcher for Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve, and freelanced for several online publications including VICE, PSFK, and CreativeApplications. For the latter, he had the pleasure of covering both the Elektra Festival and its associated Digital Arts Biennial, BIAN, on two separate occasions.