Ezra Wube, Jolie S. Ruelle
What is an AI’s understanding of human rights? For this project AI was used to generate images based on the 30 universal human rights as defined by the United Nations. The collected images were then painted and animated to create a world in which the representations of these rights coexist.
Jolie Ruelle is an artist and educator working in animation and motion design. She received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art (2004) and MFA from the University of California Santa Cruz (2012). She has worked for Big Pink Motion Graphics, Kenneth Cole Productions, and FLYP media where she collaborated with Scientific American, Fortune, ProPublica, and The Washington Post.
Ezra Wube (born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is a cross-disciplinary artist who lives and works in New York. His works encompass video, drawing, painting and installations. His work explores experiences of mobility, the malleability of time and place, and the dialogical tensions between “here” and “there”, a confluence of prior and current influences on social idealism, pluralism, and autonomy.