Hello, my name is Alexa Steinbrück - I am a software developer,
artist, AI researcher and educator based in Leipzig, Germany.
I
love to
demystify Artificial Intelligence, think about the intersection of
AI & Creativity, and develop
experimental interfaces.
During the last 2,5 years I co-lead the XLab, a lab for AI & Robotics at a university of art and design. Together with my colleague Simon we started a podcast where we speak with artists and designers on how they apply machine learning in their creative practices. My educational background reflects my long term interest in the intersection of art and computing, especially AI: I studied Fine Art in Germany and France and then did a BA in Artificial Intelligence (2014) at the University of Amsterdam.
How does it feel to work creatively with machine learning? This crowd-sourced project attempts to map the landscape of emotions that we observe when we interact with generative machine learning systems in a creative manner.
AI/ML Research Language Co-creativity Community 2022 (ongoing)
For 2,5 years I was the co-lead of the first lab for AI & Robotics at a German art university: The XLab at the University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein
AI/ML Research Teaching Co-creativity 2020-2022
Tech/Art Podcast where my co-host Simon and I chat with designers and artists about how they use machine learning and other AI tools in their creative practices
AI/ML Research Co-creativityCommunity 2021 (ongoing)
A conversational interface for text2image for collaborative imagination (Stable Diffusion)
AI/ML Design Interfaces Co-creativity Programming 2022Demystifying Artificial intelligence has many faces for me, from language to images: Improving the visual representation in media (Better Images of AI), analysing the very words used in public conversations about AI, finding new metaphors, giving workshops to teach the technical basics of machine learning, explaining the code of a public Colab notebook line-by-line or narrating the (sometimes funny) fails and limits of so called "intelligent" systems.
I am very passionate about this, because it's both political and personal: Read more
Visualising artificial intelligence
AI/ML Research Language Co-creativity 2022
A campaign and community to improve the visual language for AI
AI/ML Awareness Campaign Community 2021 (ongoing)
Busting the most common myths about Artificial Intelligence
AI/ML Website Campaign 2019, with Daniel Leufer (Access Now / Mozilla fellow)
I gave a talk at the "KI & Wir" conference, showcasing both fun and weird fails of Artificial Intelligence as well as heavy and harmful incidents.
AI/ML AI Education 2021Since 2020 I am co-hosting the podcast "Towards co-creation" together with Simon Maris , our guests are artists, designers and musicians who use machine learning in their creative practices
A workshop I gave on designing intelligent voice assistants.
Mozfest
2019, London
I am @alexabruck on Twitter and Github!
*1987 born in Dresden, Germany
I have a BA in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam (NL) and a diploma of Fine Arts from the Art University Toulouse (FR).