Education
University of California Davis, Davis, CA Current
- PhD Candidate
- Performance Studies Graduate Group
- Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies
- 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 Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
- Excellence Scholarship for Master Students recipient
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2003
- Bachelor of Science
- Major in Biology
Solo Exhibitions
Avital Meshi: Subverting the Algorithmic Gaze, NYU. 2022
Uncanny Dance Party, Digital Art Demo Space, Chicago, IL 2016
Selected Group Exhibitions and Conferences
More Than Meets AI, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley. 2023
Structures of Emotion, ISEA, Paris 2023
Currents New Media Arts Festival, Santa-Fe, NM 2022
Structures of Emotion demonstration, EVA London 2022
The New Vitruvian, The Royal Anthropological Institute, UK 2022
InVisible, Movement and Computation, Chicago, IL 2022
(Mis)Identification, SLSA Purdue, IN 2022
LABA Live, JCC East Bay, Berkeley, CA 2021
In Search For Truth, ZERO1 2021
The Cyborg Project, The 418, 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 Life 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 Performance 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
Live Feed, 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
Code/Switch, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 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
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 2023
AI and Society - UC Davis 2022
Intro to Techno-culture - UC Davis 2022
Video Games and Culture - UC Davis 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. "An Ontology of Becoming: Introducing New Species through AI Generated Images and Text" SLSA 2023
Meshi Avital, and Treyden Chiaravalloti. "Structures of Emotion: Speculating an AI-Human Symbiosis" ISEA 2023
Meshi, Avital. "Should We Become Emotional With AI?: Performative Engagements With an Affective Algorithm." IJACDT vol.11, no.3 2022: pp.1-13. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJACDT.316136
Meshi Avital, “The Tension Between Identification and Misidentification: AI Recognition Algorithms and Performance.” SLSA 2022
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 (No proceedings)
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