The Night of Ideas 2024 took place at the ICA San Diego on February 24th.
At this occasion, the Alliance Française San Diego partnered with the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego and the French American Chamber of Commerce for an evening of art and ideas.
The event hosted by the ICA at their Central location in Balboa Park presented an evening in celebration of Pinar Yoldas: Synaptic Sculpture (on view February 24 – June 23) with food and drinks, a family-friendly art activity, and musical entertainment!
Program
4pm – 8 pm I View Gallery Pinar Yoldas: Synaptic Sculpture curated by Jordan Karney Chaim, ICA San Diego Curator
4pm – 6pm I Family-Friendly Art Activity in The Hub
Create a “Not Quite Right” collage inspired by Pinar Yoldas’ exhibition, Synaptic Sculpture. The assemblages explore the uncanny realm of AI-generated imagery, where the algorithmic mind occasionally falters, birthing compositions that subtly deviate from reality and expose their synthetic genesis.
5pm – 6pm I Panel discussion: The Edge: AI + Human Creativity
in the theater at Mingei International Museum
ICA San Diego Director Andrew Utt moderated a conversation featuring artist Pinar Yoldas, Sylvia Cartwright, MD, and Suman Kanuganti, Co-Founder and CEO of Personal.ai.
6pm – 8pm I Music by DJ TeeLynn.
4pm – 8pm I Food, Drinks, Socializing
Beverages by Curious Elixirs, Topo Chico, and Sacred Hill Wine.
more info on https://icasandiego.org/
What is the Night of Idees / La Nuit des Idees?
Initiated in 2016 during an exceptional evening that brought together in Paris foremost French and international thinkers invited to discuss the major issues of our time, the Night of Ideas has quickly become a fixture of the French and international agenda.
Every year, on the last Thursday of January, the French Institute invites all cultural and educational institutions in France and on all five continents to celebrate the free flow of ideas and knowledge by offering, on the same evening, conferences, meetings, forums and round tables, as well as screenings, artistic performances and workshops, around a theme each one of them revisits in its own fashion.