EventsThe New Social Environment#906

Artists and/versus AI: A Speculative Conversation

Featuring Megan Noh, Sarah Odenkirk, and Yayoi Shionoiri, with Kimberly Kruge

Tuesday, September 26, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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September Critics Page Contributors Megan Noh and Sarah Odenkirk join Guest Critic Yayoi Shionoiri for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Kimberly Kruge.

Megan Noh

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Megan Noh co-chairs Pryor Cashman’s Art Law and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Groups. With nearly 20 years of combined in-house legal and private practice representation of collectors, artists, and other stakeholders in both the traditional media and digital art sectors, Megan negotiates a wide variety of art market transactions and advises on disputes implicating copyright and artists rights issues. Megan serves on the Advisory Board of the Vera List Center for Art & Politics at the New School, is the Chair of the NYC Bar Association’s Artists’ Rights Subcommittee, and co-teaches the Art Law course at Columbia Law School.

Sarah Odenkirk

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Sarah Odenkirk is partner at Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP, and Co-Heads the Art Law practice group. She represents clients in matters pertaining to fine art transactions and intellectual property; emerging tech; business affairs and strategic planning; and public art and policy. Sarah is an Adjunct Professor at University of Southern California Gould School of Law where she teaches Art Law. She sits on the Boards of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Fulcrum Arts; and the Advisory Council for the Arts at Cedars-Sinai Hospital; and authored A Surprisingly Interesting Book About Contracts for Artists and Other Creatives.

Yayoi Shionoiri

A photo of Yayoi Shionoiri on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Portrait by Phong H. Bui
Yayoi Shionoiri is an interdisciplinary art lawyer and art historian who lives in Brooklyn. As Executive Director to 1717 Studio, she stewards Chris Burden’s art historical legacy and promotes Nancy Rubins’s artistic practice. She served as the Guest Critic for the Rail’s September issue Critics Page on Art Law & Art and the Law, featuring contributions from art lawyers and artists exploring the intricate connections between artistic practice and the law. She also serves as U.S. Alliance Partner to City Lights Law, an Outside Board Director to Startbahn, and an Advisory Panelist to the Serpentine Gallery’s Legal Lab.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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