SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
The Generative Tree (solo exhibition), The Phoenix, Waterbury, VT
2023
Aberrant Creativity, The Arts Council of Brazos Valley, College Stations, TX
2023
Praxis: Recent Work by Studio Art Faculty at UVM, Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT
2023
Center for Machine Arts, Peekskill, NY
2023
Co-Created: The Artist in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Burlington City Arts Gallery, Burlington, VT
2023
One Week, One Night; Colburn Gallery; Williams Hall, UVM, Burlington, VT
2022
Liquid Architectures and Leaky Territories (solo exhibition), Francis Colburn Gallery, Williams Hall, UVM, Burlington, VT
SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS
2024
Invited participant, Fabricated Natures: Stories from the Bio-Materials Archive,
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
2024
Invited participant, Bantam Tools International Plotter Fest, Peekskill, NY
2023
Bantam Tools Remote Artist Residency, Peekskill, NY
2023
Center for Machine Arts Residency, Peekskill, NY
2022
Haystack Labs Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, Deer Isle, Maine
PUBICATIONS
2024
Karson, Jennifer. (forthcoming). #OwnYourDataset: AI Interventions with an Artist-Made Dataset. In L. Cempellin and M. Geiger (Eds.), Art History and Artificial Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan.
2024
Lovato, Juniper, J. Zimmerman, I. Smith, P. Dodds, J. Karson, “Foregrounding Artist Opinions: A Survey Study on Transparency, Ownership, and Fairness in AI Generative Art,” 2024 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, San Jose, USA, October 2024, accepted for publication. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15497
2024
Dissinger, Chris, J. Karson. “Welcome to the FabLab” [Video]” 2024 Intern. Symposium on Academic Maker Spaces, Sheffield, UK, October 2024, accepted for publication.
2023
Karson, Jennifer. “Five Guardrails for Artists Working with Machines and AI,” July. https://jennkarson.studio/2023/07/five-guide-rails-for-artists-working-with-machines-and-a-i/
ARTIST TALKS
2024
Art and AI Symposium, Northern Illinois University School of Art and Design, DeKalb, Illinois/virtual. April 12.
2024
“Environment, Data Science, and the Arts,” Inclusive Arts Initiative, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, UVM, Burlington VT, March 7.
2023
“Own Your Dataset,” Creative AI Vermont: Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Art, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT, April 15.
2023
“Situated Language: Local Constructions of Time, Space, and Action,” Ars Poetica: Art/Text/Context,Colburn Gallery, UVM, Burlington, VT, March 31.
2020
Artist talk, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT/virtual. December 17.
2020
“Outbreaks from the Grid,” Alife 2020. New Frontiers in AI: What Alife can offer AI, Montréal, Canada/virtual. July 14 + July 16.
PANELIST
2025
“AI in Art: Practice, Processes, Doubts, and Revelations,” College Arts Association Annual Conference, New York City, February.
2024
“AI in the Studio Art Classroom,” College Arts Association 112th Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 16.
2024
Invited participant, Northeast Integrated Intelligent Manufacturing Lab (NIIM) Annual Meeting, University of New Hampshire, June 5-6.
2023
“Why are Culture and Creativity Powerful Assets for a Vibrant Economy?” Research, Innovation, and Sustainability (RISE) Summit, UVM, Burlington, VT, June 21.
2022
“Embodiment and Datafication,” Future Bodies New Media Caucus of the College Arts Association, Blacksburg, VA, September 30.
2022
“Appraising Your Research as Data: Managing, Visualizing, and Preserving Your Scholarship,” sponsored by Art Libraries Society of North America, The 110th College Arts Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL/virtual, February 16–19.
2021
“Northeast and CAREERS Cyberteams: Supporting Research at Small and Mid-Sized Institutions with Student Research Computing Facilitators,” SuperComputing21/virtual, November 18.