Ryder Richards (RAiR 2012-13) will be presenting an illustrated lecture about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it’s impact on art and humanity.

Saturday January 6, 2024, 6:30 PM

Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art

Free admission

Beyond near-term hype, as AI increasingly penetrates cultural realms like art, urgent questions arise around human creativity versus artificial generation. This lecture traverses philosophical tensions from Cybernetics to Marxism to Silicon Valley god-complexes shaping our AI future, as well as considering aura, human dignity, and the limits of technology. 

The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Production, image created by Ryder Richards with the assistance of Midjourney.

Ryder Richards was born in 1977 and raised in Roswell, New Mexico. He lives and works in Dallas as an artist, writer, former gallerist, and creative director. After earning degrees in art with a minor in architecture, he co-founded the RJP Nomadic Gallery, The Art Foundation, and Culture Laboratory Collective.  After this, he founded EUTOPIA: Contemporary Art Review (2014-2020). He started the “Let’s Think About It” podcast three years ago.

In the midst of this, Richards was a fellow at Roswell Artist-in-Residence from 2012-2013, was the art department chair at Eastfield College in Mesquite, TX, from 2013-2016, and has been a creative director and woodworker since then. 

Ryder has participated in many national and international exhibitions and residencies.