Education
University of California Davis, Davis, CA Current
University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 2019
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL 2016
Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2012
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2006
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2003
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
Harmonious Cacaphony - DanceHack, UC Berkeley, CA - upcoming 2026
All Too Human - The Ammerman Center 18th Triennial Symposium, New London, CT - upcoming 2026
MOVE-ME: Choreography with AI - AAAI Workshop, Singapore upcoming 2026
Generating a New Sense of Self - Synthetic Narratives, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ 2025
Meet GPT-ME - DUKE Arts, Duke University, NC 2025
AI Séance - Currents New Media Festival, Santa-Fe, NM 2025
Move-ME, CVPR Art Gallery, Nashville, TN 2025
Embodied Creative Making with GenAI - Creativity Conference, Ashland, OR 2025
For You: The Comfortable Alienation of AI - Samek Art Museum, Lewisburg, PA 2025
Meet GPT-ME - Inverse Performance Festival, Bentonville, AR 2024
GUI/GOOEY - Plexus Projects, NYC 2024
Palladium, ODC Annex Theatre, San Francisco, CA 2024
AI Séance, Spiritual Machines, Flux Factory, NYC 2024
in(A)n(I)mate - The Future of Reality, SIGGRAPH, Denver, CO 2024
Peekaboo - CVPR AI Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 2024
Meet GPT-ME - Currents New Media Festival, Santa-Fe, NM 2024
Wearing GPT - Wearables Collective Symposium, Davis, CA 2024
Here: I Am Starta Arta Gallery, NYU 2023
More Than Meets AI - Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA 2023
Structure of Emotions, Symbiosis - ISEA, Paris, France 2023
Face it! Currents New Media Arts Festival, Santa-Fe, NM 2022
Avital Meshi: Subverting the Algorithmic Gaze - The Institute of Fine Arts NYU, NY 2021
Structures of Emotion - In Search for Truth, Zero1, SF, CA 2021
The Cyborg Project - at The 418 Project, Santa-Cruz, CA 2021
Visualizing Bias with Augmented Reality - Gray Area, SF, CA 2021
Digital Rights are Civil Rights: Race and Technology - Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, MN 2021
Machine Learning for Creativity and Design - NeurIPS 2020
Toward Justice - Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA 2020
Deconstructing Whiteness -Digital America, Issue No. 16 2020
Post Algorithm: Art and Life in the Age of AI - SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
What Makes Us Human - Sesnon Gallery, UC Santa-Cruz, CA 2020
Don’t Worry - International Forum of Performing Arts, Greece 2020
The AI Human-Training Center - Currents New Media, NM 2020
Machine Learning for Creativity and Design - NeurIPS 2019, Canada 2019
Perfect Users - The Wrong Biennale 2019
Live Feed -Currents New Media, Santa-Fe, NM 2019
Aesthetic of Movement - Online Performance Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey 2019
The Urgency of Reality in a Hyper-Connected Age - ACM SIGGRAPH 2018
140 Characters, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2018
Body Landscapes Performance Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark 2018
Queerin’ Performance - LiVEART.US, Queens Museum, NY 2018
IRL to URL - ExTV, Chicago, IL 2018
Science, Technology and the Future of Art - Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA 2017
Alternative Facts - Works Gallery, San Jose, CA 2017
Code/Switch - Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 2016
Uncanny Dance Party - Digital Art Demo Center, Chicago, IL - 2016
Invited Talks and Panels
Becoming a Human-AI Hybrid - Laser Talks, Texas A&M University, TX upcoming 2026
AI and Acoustic Space - Reenacting Dartmouth, St. Pölten, Austria 2025
Build With AI - The Google Developer Student Club, UC Davis 2025
On Becoming a Human-AI Hybrid, Futures and GenAI, Aarhus University, Denmark 2024
GPT-ME: A Human-AI Cognitive Assemblage - Human Augmentation Summit, MIT Media Lab 2024
The AI-Mediated Posthuman - Dance And/As Technology, McGill University, Canada 2024
Network Consciousness: Exploring AI-Artist Relationships, Currents New Media Festival NM 2024
Art Residencies and Exchanges
Creative Futures Counterstructures, Mozilla Foundation +TIAT.Place 2025
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
Videogames and Culture - TA, CDM 172, UC Davis 2025
Creative Vibe Coding - Co-Teacher, FRS 002, UC Davis 2025
Introduction to Games - TA, CDM 072, UC Davis 2024
Creative AI - Co-Teacher, FRS 002, UC Davis 2024
Filmmaking Foundations - TA, CDM 020, UC Davis 2024
Introduction to Technoculture Studies, Lead TA, CDM 002, UC Davis 2023
Art and Cinema - Lead TA, CDM 163V, UC Davis 2023
Introduction to Games - TA, CDM 072, UC Davis 2023
Media Theory - Lead TA, STS 151, UC Davis 2023
Introduction to Technoculture Studies, TA, CDM 002, UC Davis 2022
AI and Society - Co-Teacher, FRS 002, UC Davis 2022
4D Foundations - TA, ART 10F, UC Santa Cruz 2019
Ars Erotica - TA, ART 80x, UC Santa Cruz 2019
Critical History of Digital Games - TA, ARTG 80H, UC Santa Cruz 2018
Foundations of Play - TA, AGPM 80i, UC Santa Cruz 2018
Ars Erotica - TA, Art 80x, UC Santa Cruz 2018
Critical History of Digital Games - TA, ARTG 80H, UC Santa Cruz 2018
Art Publications
Meshi, Avital, and Adam Wright. "in (A) n (I) mate-AI-Mediated Conversations with Inanimate Objects." Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 8.3 (2025): 1-6.
Meshi, Avital. "GPT-ME: A Human-AI Cognitive Assemblage." Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 7.4 (2024): 1-8.
Meshi, Avital. "The New Vitruvian: Becoming-with an AI Recognition Algorithm." Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Movement and Computing. 2024.
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
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
Harmonious Cacaphony - DanceHack, UC Berkeley, CA - upcoming 2026
All Too Human - The Ammerman Center 18th Triennial Symposium, New London, CT - upcoming 2026
MOVE-ME: Choreography with AI - AAAI Workshop, Singapore upcoming 2026
Generating a New Sense of Self - Synthetic Narratives, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ 2025
Meet GPT-ME - DUKE Arts, Duke University, NC 2025
AI Séance - Currents New Media Festival, Santa-Fe, NM 2025
Move-ME, CVPR Art Gallery, Nashville, TN 2025
Embodied Creative Making with GenAI - Creativity Conference, Ashland, OR 2025
For You: The Comfortable Alienation of AI - Samek Art Museum, Lewisburg, PA 2025
Meet GPT-ME - Inverse Performance Festival, Bentonville, AR 2024
GUI/GOOEY - Plexus Projects, NYC 2024
Palladium, ODC Annex Theatre, San Francisco, CA 2024
AI Séance, Spiritual Machines, Flux Factory, NYC 2024
in(A)n(I)mate - The Future of Reality, SIGGRAPH, Denver, CO 2024
Peekaboo - CVPR AI Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 2024
Meet GPT-ME - Currents New Media Festival, Santa-Fe, NM 2024
Wearing GPT - Wearables Collective Symposium, Davis, CA 2024
Here: I Am Starta Arta Gallery, NYU 2023
More Than Meets AI - Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA 2023
Structure of Emotions, Symbiosis - ISEA, Paris, France 2023
Face it! Currents New Media Arts Festival, Santa-Fe, NM 2022
Avital Meshi: Subverting the Algorithmic Gaze - The Institute of Fine Arts NYU, NY 2021
Structures of Emotion - In Search for Truth, Zero1, SF, CA 2021
The Cyborg Project - at The 418 Project, Santa-Cruz, CA 2021
Visualizing Bias with Augmented Reality - Gray Area, SF, CA 2021
Digital Rights are Civil Rights: Race and Technology - Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, MN 2021
Machine Learning for Creativity and Design - NeurIPS 2020
Toward Justice - Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA 2020
Deconstructing Whiteness -Digital America, Issue No. 16 2020
Post Algorithm: Art and Life in the Age of AI - SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
What Makes Us Human - Sesnon Gallery, UC Santa-Cruz, CA 2020
Don’t Worry - International Forum of Performing Arts, Greece 2020
The AI Human-Training Center - Currents New Media, NM 2020
Machine Learning for Creativity and Design - NeurIPS 2019, Canada 2019
Perfect Users - The Wrong Biennale 2019
Live Feed -Currents New Media, Santa-Fe, NM 2019
Aesthetic of Movement - Online Performance Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey 2019
The Urgency of Reality in a Hyper-Connected Age - ACM SIGGRAPH 2018
140 Characters, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2018
Body Landscapes Performance Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark 2018
Queerin’ Performance - LiVEART.US, Queens Museum, NY 2018
IRL to URL - ExTV, Chicago, IL 2018
Science, Technology and the Future of Art - Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA 2017
Alternative Facts - Works Gallery, San Jose, CA 2017
Code/Switch - Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 2016
Uncanny Dance Party - Digital Art Demo Center, Chicago, IL - 2016
Invited Talks and Panels
Becoming a Human-AI Hybrid - Laser Talks, Texas A&M University, TX upcoming 2026
AI and Acoustic Space - Reenacting Dartmouth, St. Pölten, Austria 2025
Build With AI - The Google Developer Student Club, UC Davis 2025
On Becoming a Human-AI Hybrid, Futures and GenAI, Aarhus University, Denmark 2024
GPT-ME: A Human-AI Cognitive Assemblage - Human Augmentation Summit, MIT Media Lab 2024
The AI-Mediated Posthuman - Dance And/As Technology, McGill University, Canada 2024
Network Consciousness: Exploring AI-Artist Relationships, Currents New Media Festival NM 2024
Art Residencies and Exchanges
Creative Futures Counterstructures, Mozilla Foundation +TIAT.Place 2025
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
Videogames and Culture - TA, CDM 172, UC Davis 2025
Creative Vibe Coding - Co-Teacher, FRS 002, UC Davis 2025
Introduction to Games - TA, CDM 072, UC Davis 2024
Creative AI - Co-Teacher, FRS 002, UC Davis 2024
Filmmaking Foundations - TA, CDM 020, UC Davis 2024
Introduction to Technoculture Studies, Lead TA, CDM 002, UC Davis 2023
Art and Cinema - Lead TA, CDM 163V, UC Davis 2023
Introduction to Games - TA, CDM 072, UC Davis 2023
Media Theory - Lead TA, STS 151, UC Davis 2023
Introduction to Technoculture Studies, TA, CDM 002, UC Davis 2022
AI and Society - Co-Teacher, FRS 002, UC Davis 2022
4D Foundations - TA, ART 10F, UC Santa Cruz 2019
Ars Erotica - TA, ART 80x, UC Santa Cruz 2019
Critical History of Digital Games - TA, ARTG 80H, UC Santa Cruz 2018
Foundations of Play - TA, AGPM 80i, UC Santa Cruz 2018
Ars Erotica - TA, Art 80x, UC Santa Cruz 2018
Critical History of Digital Games - TA, ARTG 80H, UC Santa Cruz 2018
Art Publications
Meshi, Avital, and Adam Wright. "in (A) n (I) mate-AI-Mediated Conversations with Inanimate Objects." Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 8.3 (2025): 1-6.
Meshi, Avital. "GPT-ME: A Human-AI Cognitive Assemblage." Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 7.4 (2024): 1-8.
Meshi, Avital. "The New Vitruvian: Becoming-with an AI Recognition Algorithm." Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Movement and Computing. 2024.
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