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Claudia Schmuckli, Curator Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, to Speak
Feb. 26

The CDM Lecture Series presents Claudia Schmuckli, curator of Contemporary Art and Programming, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, with a presentation on “Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI.” The free event is Feb. 26 at 12:10 p.m. in Everson Hall 176. 

In today’s AI-driven world, increasingly organized and shaped by algorithms that track, collect, and evaluate our data, the question of what it means to be human has shifted. Uncanny Valley is the first major exhibition (on view at the de Young museum / Feb. 22 – Oct. 25, 2020) to unpack this question through a lens of contemporary art and propose new ways of thinking about intelligence, nature, and artifice.

Schmuckli is the inaugural Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Since joining the Museums in 2016, she has developed exhibitions and commissions with Sarah Lucas, Urs Fischer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, professor emerita 1993-2005, Leonardo Drew, DIS, and Ranu Mukherjee and acquired works by The Propeller Group, Carrie Mae Weems, Tony Feher, Jessica Stockholder, and Terry Adkins. Previously, she was Director and Chief Curator of the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, where she organized over thirty exhibitions including solo shows dedicated to Matthew Ronay, Analia Saban, Slavs and Tatars, Candice Breitz, Tony Feher, Johan Grimonprez, Gabriel Kuri, Chantal Akerman, and Amy Sillman among many others. Schmuckli began her career in New York as a Curatorial Assistant at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and an Assistant Curator at the Museum of Modern Art. She holds a Master of Arts degree in art history from the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany.

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