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The Emotions after Charles Darwin addresses the universality of emotions on a neuro-biological level regardless of race, age and gender, and the consequences of AI and genetic tools such as CRISPR. In 2007 I was invited to collaborate with the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland's autism research (they found my project through the Rhizome artbase at the New Museum). Later I collaborated with neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux at NYU.

I am currently researching the effects of AI on emotion research and its consequences for science and society.

The Emotions was first presented at the University of California at Irvine in 2009 for Digital Arts and Culture and published by University of California Press. Since then it has been presented and published at multiple venues, including Columbia College's Post Human/Future Tense and Robots and Representation at Perdue University in 2010, Aalborg University in 2011, Hz Journal 2012, and MIT Press (2013).

 

 

 

 

The Emotions after Charles Darwin, Post Human Future Tense, Columbia College, 2010

Collaboration with The Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland (who found me through Rhizome at the New Museum) to assist in autism emotion research 2007

 

 

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