Cultural Enhancement Calendar

Against political resistance and industry skepticism, Luis Valdez pushes Chicano storytelling from the fields to the film screen with Zoot Suit and La Bamba, crafting iconic works that challenge, celebrate, and expand America’s story.

K Allado-McDowell is a writer, artist, musician, and a pioneering figure in the field of AI literature. Since 2020, they have authored several books with GPT-3, co-edited and contributed to multiple anthologies, and regularly publish essays on art, AI, and ecology.

K established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google in 2015. They created the neuro-opera Song of the Ambassadors, which previewed at Lincoln Center in 2022. Their first solo exhibition, The Known Lost, was presented at Swiss Institute in NYC in 2025.

K has spoken at TED, The Long Now Foundation, New Museum, Tate, Serpentine Gallery, HKW, Moderna Museet, Christie’s, MacArthur Foundation, MfN Berlin, Ars Electronica, Sónar, and many other venues, and has taught at SCI-Arc, Strelka, and IAAC.