Education
University of California Davis, Davis, CA Current
- PhD Candidate
- Dean's Distinguished Graduate Fellow
University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 2019
- Master of Fine Arts
- Department of Digital Arts and New Media
- Recipient, Art's Dean Excellence Award
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL 2016
- Bachelor of Fine Art
- Major in Photography
- Merit Recipient – Distinguished Scholar
Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2012
- Certificate, Continuing Studies
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2006
- Master of Science
- Major in Evolution, Systematics and Ecology
- Excellence Scholarship for Master Students recipient
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2003
- Bachelor of Science
- Major in Biology
Selected Exhibitions
Avital Meshi: Subverting the Algorithmic Gaze, NYU. 2022
Currents New Media Arts Festival, Santa-Fe, NM 2022
Structures of Emotion, EVA London 2022
LABA Live, JCC East Bay, Berkeley, CA 2021
In Search For Truth, ZERO1 2021
The Cyborg Project, Santa Cruz, CA 2021
Visualizing Bias with AR, Gray Area, San Francisco, CA 2021
Forgiveness, Digital Word Grant, American Jewish University 2021
Digital Rights Are Civil Rights, Institute For Aesthetic Advocacy 2021
Machine Learning For Creativity and Design, NeurIPS 2020
Toward Justice, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA 2020
Deconstructing Whiteness, Digital America 2020
Post Algorithm: Art and Lifa in the Age of AI, SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
What Makes Us Human, Sesnon Art Gallry, UC Santa Cruz, CA 2020
Don't Worry, Be Happy, International Forum of Performaing Arts, Greece 2020
Visual Messages, International Visual Literacy Association Conference, NJ. 2020
Classification Cube, SIGGRAPH 2020 2020
The AI Human-Training Center, CURRENTS New-Media, Santa-Fe, NM 2020
Aesthetic of Movement, Istanbul, Turkey 2019
Currents New-Media Arts Festival, Santa-Fe, NM 2019
Receivership, MFA Exhibition, USCS. 2019
The Urgency of Reality in a Hyper-connected Age, ACM SIGGRAPH 2019
Body-Landscapes, Copenhagen, Denmark 2018
Queerin' Performance, LiVEARTS.US, Queens Museum, NY 2018
140 Characters, Root Division, San-Francisco, CA 2018
Science, Technology and The Future of Art, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA 2017
Aggregate Animated Shorts, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA 2017
Alternative Facts, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA 2017
BYOB, R/SF Projects, San-Francisco, CA 2017
Revenge of xXxFest, ExTV, Chicago, IL 2017
Learning, Reading, Doing, ExTV, Chicago, IL 2017
Uncanny Dance Party, Digital Art Demo Space, Chicago, IL 2016
Code/Switch, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 2016
Colors of Summer, Rainbow Painters Gallery, Second-Life 2016
Research Project #9, Outerspace Gallery, Chicago, IL 2016
After The Media, Rainbow Painters Gallery, Second-Life 2016
4My_Broken_HardDrive, The Nightingale, Chicago, IL 2016
BYOB, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL 2016
Moon Gesture, Halas.am, Israel 2015
BFA Show, School Of The Art Institute, Chicago, IL 2015
The Secret Postcard Project, Fresh Paint Modern art Fair, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2014
The Secret Postcard Project, Fresh Paint Modern art Fair, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2013
Depth of Field Photographed Architecture, Light House Gallery, Jafa, Israel 2012
Depth of Field, The Israel Trade Fairs Center, Tel Aviv, Israel 2012
City Lights, Modiin, Israel 2012
Final Show, Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2012
Art Publications
Meshi, Avital. The New Vitruvian - Digital doubles Inscribed within Bounding Boxes. Anthropology, AI, and The Future of Human Society, 2022
Meshi, Avital. "Deconstructing Whiteness - Visualizing Racial Bias in a Face Recognition Algorithm"
ARTECH, 2021.
Meshi, Avital and Angus G. Forbes. "Don’t Worry, Be Happy: Resisting an AI Emotion Recognition System With a Smile"
ARTECH, 2021.
Meshi, Avital. "Deconstructing Whiteness". CVPR 2021.
Paper and Oral Presentation
Meshi, Avital, and Angus G. Forbes. "Stepping inside the
Classification Cube: An intimate interaction with an AI system."
Leonardo 53.4 (2020): 387-393.
‘Turn of the century’, Artist book, Joan Flasch Artists` Book Collection, Chicago 2015
‘Visually Similar’, Artist book, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago 2015
Scientific Publications
Meshi A. and Bloch G., Journal of biological rhythms 2007 Aug;22(4):343-55
Bloch G. and Meshi A., Journal of Comparative Physiology 2007 Feb;193(2):181-99