Guest of Honor: Wassim Z. Alsindi
“I’m looking forward to the Generative Art Summit. In my opinion, it’s important to make sense of the growing relevance of algorithmically oriented forms of creativity, as technology continues to permeate through and augment an ever-wider range of artistic practices.”
Biography
Wassim is the founder and creative director of the 0xSalon, which conducts experiments in post-disciplinary collective knowledge practices. A veteran of the timechain, Wassim specialises in conceptual design and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems, on which he writes, speaks, teaches, and consults. He has an editorial column at the MIT Computational Law Report, and he co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems journal and conference series. Wassim has curated arts festivals, led a sculptural engineering laboratory and published experimental music, satirical theatre, fiction, games, poetry, and speculative scripture. Wassim holds a Ph.D. in ultrafast supramolecular photophysics from the University of Nottingham.