Ali Hossaini

MA, Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, 1986 BA, Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis, 1986 Master Printing, International Center for Photography, 1988 Co-Director & Co-founder, National Gallery X, National Gallery [5] Visiting Senior Research Fellow & Programme Leader – 'Connected Culture', King's College London[6][7] Fellow Royal Society of Arts Digital Media Thought Leader, Lord Cultural Resources [8] Epiphany, multimedia performance, Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, 2015.

How AI Technology & Algorithms are Changing the Nature of Creativity, Art Leaders Network, The New York Times conference, Berlin, 2018.

[1] In 2017 Hossaini published the Manual of Digital Museum Planning[2] and subsequently became co-director of National Gallery X,[3][4] a King's College London partnership that explores the future of art and cultural institutions.

Since 2018 Hossaini has worked with security think tank Royal United Services Institute and, in a 2019 special edition of its journal, he assessed the threat from AI from the perspective of biology.

Hossaini came of age during the Reagan Era, and became a producer and host (1989–1994) for Alternative Views, a television program that offered progressive news, commentary and interviews.

He moved to ZDTV in 1997 where he continued to develop interactive projects that integrated audience tools like chat and webcams into television programs.

[17] From 1999 to 2001, Hossaini was a vice president for community at Oxygen Media, he developed applications for video sharing and managed presence to integrate numerous corporate acquisitions into a single network.

[20] As executive producer of LAB HD, Hossaini fostered the creation of several dozen avant-garde films, including the Voom Portraits Robert Wilson, a project which became well known after Vanity Fair[21] featured one of its subjects, actor Brad Pitt, on its cover.

[22] The series of HDTV videos feature performances by Hollywood stars, including Robert Downey Jr., Isabella Rossellini and Willem Dafoe, European and Persian royalty and notable artists.

In a review for The New York Times Dennis Overbye remarked that the work "bypass the rational part of the brain and head[s] straight for someplace deeper, to make us experience the universe not as a concatenation of forces but as a poem.

[42] In 2016 Ericsson and King's College London announced that Hossaini would lead Connected Culture[permanent dead link‍], a joint project that applies 5G networking techniques to immersive media.

Public workshops were held at National Theatre Studio, RADA and Sadler's Wells,[44] and Hossaini tested a new spatial audio system Soundscapes within his 3D video installation Ouroboros.

[45] As a result of Hossaini's project in June 2018 the city of London announced they would be hosting the world's first 5G connected theatre in collaboration with Berlin.

[47] With the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 Ericsson explored work of the connected culture initiative noting the way that well before an event like COVID-19 the Hossaini's vision "had the ambition to show how the three sensory elements of touch, sight and sound could be heightened to make any experience much more immersive.".

As co-director[49] of NGX Hossaini describes the goal of the undertaking is to "spark a modern renaissance"[50] by bringing together people who are cross-trained artists, scientists and engineers to create "new forms of spatialised experience that our predecessors couldn't have dreamed of".

KIMA: Colour in 360 by Analema Group launched on the second of June 2020 and consists of three video works that transform colour data from Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, Claude Monet's Water Lilies (Monet series), and Vincent van Gogh's Wheat Field with Cypresses into 360-degree light and sound experiences.

[52] The virtual artist residency by Analema Group was a part of a revised programme that takes the lockdown as its context and subject and offers a series of creative and philosophical responses to the new world coronavirus has created.

As the National Gallery and other cultural places re-open, they’ll have access to vigorous new tech that make buildings more like websites while distributing key features of architecture over media channels.

[56]In 2021 Hossaini co-curated with Neus Torres Tamarit an online collection of works which have created with Machine learning and other Artificial intelligence techniques.

With the exhibition noting that: the AI Gallery will continue as a 'cultural exchange programme' between humanity and the systems whose influence - and mystery - grows daily.

As the exhibition grows, we will work with the TAS Hub and beyond to develop a rigorous framework for understanding the emerging palettes of AI art and how they fit into human society.

[58] In a statement released by the Gallery Hossaini and Vigano comment that: "The Turing Test is a classic way of distinguishing humans from AI.

Software would then detect their pulse and translate it into a live visual score performed by sitarist Shama Rahman and percussionist Mick Grierson.

Located in the National Gallery's basement, a resident AI algorithm then reinterpreted famous paintings in the museum above as a pulsating video environment that responded both to and entangled the audience and performers as 'entangled roots, limbs and life of imaginary forests'.

[63] The campaign was designed to " champion 5G's best and brightest; those who are leading the charge for change in 5G connectivity" [64] In their recognition of Hossaini the company noted that:Academic, writer and artist Ali Hossaini has been exploring how 5G can enhance the arts through immersive experiences, creating the world's first 5G-enabled theatre in partnership with Arts Council England...Ali's creative approach to 5G provides a unique vision for the future of culture, commerce and technology.

[72] In 2019 Hossaini worked with security think tank Royal United Services Institute and, to produce a special edition of its journal and assessed the threat from AI from the perspective of biology.

The edition noted how in both creative and defence contexts AI provokes profound questions about what it means to be human and creates innumerable risks and opportunities to the current security environment.

In a review for The New York Times, Dennis Overbye remarked that the work "bypass the rational part of the brain and head[s] straight for someplace deeper, to make us experience the universe not as a concatenation of forces but as a poem.

"Epiphany: the Cycle of Life" was made by Hossaini, composer Paola Prestini, librettist Niloufar Talebi and choral master Francisco Nunez Produced for the Brooklyn Academy of Music.