Aven Le Zhou
About Aven Le Zhou
Aven Le ZHOU（周乐）is an artist scholar works with creative Artificial Intelligence. He founded the AI-augmented creative studio - artMachines and leads cross-disciplinary practices in said organization. His artworks and research interests spread in interactive media arts, generative design and machine vision for creative interactions. He recently focuses on utilizing interactive artificial intelligence and generative machine learning to effectuate human-AI collaborative creativity. His first solo exhibition "The Love of Shanshui" was held in Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, and his recent solo exhibitions include "Chinese New Literati, 2019. Touring exhibition at Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre; Shanghai DaNing Library; and The Izmir International Fair, Turkey". Some selected group exhibitions include "Machine Learning for Creativity. AI Art Gallery, Vancouver (2019), Montreal (2018), Canada", "Computer Vision for Fashion, Art & Design, 2019. Computer Vision Art Gallery, Seoul, Korean", "Dialog: a bit more AI, 2018. Fouhaus+, Shanghai", "ShanshuiDaDA, 2018. Yeah!Nah Gallery, Shanghai". As an artist scholar, his artworks aiming at resolving research questions: Can AI be creative? Can we humans create with AI? With a practice-based research approach and recent interests in cultural innovation, Aven has published under said topics at different venues, such as ICCV, ICDAR and NeurIPS, and etc. Aven has been teaching AI Arts, Computer Arts and Interactive Media Arts in various institutions. He recently joint XJTLU Architecture + Design Department with a focus on interactive media and creative AI. Prior to that, he teaches AI Arts and Interactive Machine Learning at Interactive Media Arts Program at NYU Shanghai and Computer Arts courses at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prior to that, he taught New Media and Design major at WPP school, Shanghai Art and Design Academy, and was a resident research fellow at NYU Shanghai.