Alex Cohen

Alex Cohen

Media artist and scholar working across performance, sound, critical media practice, and artificial intelligence.

PhD Candidate in Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Selected Research & Practice

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Accountability as a Service

A critical media project examining automated accountability and the technical performance of ethical responsibility through satirical interactive deepfake avatars.

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Performing AI Ethics

Practice-based dissertation research on how ethical authority around AI is performed, contested, and reconstructed through media.

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An Eye for AI

A pre-rendered satirical deepfake panel in which I moderate three AI academics and thought leaders discussing the future of technology and human potential, including increasingly absurd proposals for powering data centers.

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Images of three frameworks for the future from Kurzweil, Tegmark, and Joachim.

AGI, Apocalyptic Narrative and State of Exception

Published research on apocalyptic narratives, exceptionalism, and the political-theological framing of artificial general intelligence.

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