Avital Meshi

  • Work
    • An Ontology of Becoming (2023)
    • This Person Is Not Me (2022)
    • Front Page (2022)
    • The New Vitruvian (2022)
    • Structures of Emotion (2021)
    • ZEN A.I (2021)
    • InVisible (2021)
    • The Cage (2021)
    • The Cyborg Project (2021)
    • Wearable AI (2021)
    • Snapped (2021)
    • #AngryWhiteOldMale
    • The AI Human Training Center (2020)
    • The Avatar Genome Project (In Progress) >
      • Avatar pictures
    • Deconstructing Whiteness (2020)
    • Techno-Schizo (2020)
    • Don't Worry Be Happy (2020)
    • Face it! (2019)
    • Classification Cube (2019)
    • Live Feed (2018)
    • Memorial for a Virtual Friendship (2018)
    • VR2RL (2018)
    • Better Version (2018)
    • Virtual Chairs (2018)
    • Happy REZ day (2018)
    • Digital Creatures (2018)
    • Home made Virtual Soup (2017)
    • I Am Feeling (2017)
    • Uncanny Dance Party (2016)
    • Imagined (2016)
    • Mixed Reality (2016)
    • Textual Experience (2016)
    • Future Landscapes (2016)
    • Bisectional (2016)
    • Lucid Dreams (2016)
    • After the Media (2016)
    • #ilikeselfies (2016)
    • We are all different as a second language (2015)
    • Visually Similar (2015)
    • Virtual Mama (2014)
    • Me, Myself and I (2012)
    • Where do we come from? (2015)
    • sounds For Twine Game
    • Images for the cyborg project
  • Interviews
  • Publications
  • Info
    • CV
    • Artist Statement
    • Bio
  • Contact
  • Work
    • An Ontology of Becoming (2023)
    • This Person Is Not Me (2022)
    • Front Page (2022)
    • The New Vitruvian (2022)
    • Structures of Emotion (2021)
    • ZEN A.I (2021)
    • InVisible (2021)
    • The Cage (2021)
    • The Cyborg Project (2021)
    • Wearable AI (2021)
    • Snapped (2021)
    • #AngryWhiteOldMale
    • The AI Human Training Center (2020)
    • The Avatar Genome Project (In Progress) >
      • Avatar pictures
    • Deconstructing Whiteness (2020)
    • Techno-Schizo (2020)
    • Don't Worry Be Happy (2020)
    • Face it! (2019)
    • Classification Cube (2019)
    • Live Feed (2018)
    • Memorial for a Virtual Friendship (2018)
    • VR2RL (2018)
    • Better Version (2018)
    • Virtual Chairs (2018)
    • Happy REZ day (2018)
    • Digital Creatures (2018)
    • Home made Virtual Soup (2017)
    • I Am Feeling (2017)
    • Uncanny Dance Party (2016)
    • Imagined (2016)
    • Mixed Reality (2016)
    • Textual Experience (2016)
    • Future Landscapes (2016)
    • Bisectional (2016)
    • Lucid Dreams (2016)
    • After the Media (2016)
    • #ilikeselfies (2016)
    • We are all different as a second language (2015)
    • Visually Similar (2015)
    • Virtual Mama (2014)
    • Me, Myself and I (2012)
    • Where do we come from? (2015)
    • sounds For Twine Game
    • Images for the cyborg project
  • Interviews
  • Publications
  • Info
    • CV
    • Artist Statement
    • Bio
  • Contact


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 Residencies and Exchanges
In Search of Truth - Impact Art AT, Zero1, San-Francisco, CA                    2021
The Cyborg Project - At the 418 Projects, Santa Cruz, CA                          2021
CHOSE-N - LABA, East Bay, CA                                                                        2021

Teaching 
Media Theory - UC Davis (upcoming)                                                                                                         2023
AI and Society - UC Davis (upcoming)                                                                                                        2022
Filmmaking Foundations - UC Davis (upcoming)                                                                                     2022
Video Games and Culture - UC Davis (upcoming)                                                                                    2022
4D Foundations - UC Santa Cruz                                                                                                                 2019
Foundation of Play, Art Games and Playable Media, UC Santa Cruz                                                    2018
Ars Erotica: Sexual imagery in culture and Art, The Art Division, UC Santa Cruz                     2018, 2019
History of Digital Games, Art Games and Playable Media, UC Santa Cruz                               2017, 2018 


Art Publications
Meshi, Avital, and Treyden Chiaravalloti. "Structures of Emotion: An online demonstration of an emotion recognition process." Proceedings of EVA London 2022 (2022): 241-242.

Paganopoulos, Michelangelo, et al. "Panel 07 Travelling to Other Worlds and Altered States of Consciousness: Human-Artificial relational interactions and living worlds in the Age of Aquarius." (2022).


Meshi, Avital, and Treyden Chiaravalloti. "InVisible-Movement on the Edge of Two Realities." Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Movement and Computing. 2022.
​

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
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