Aven Le ZHOU is an assistant professor and artist who works with Interactive Media and Generative Agents, such as emergence systems, genetic algorithms, and generative Artificial Intelligence. His practice and research interests spread in various emerging media formats. Since 2018, he has focused on utilizing artificial intelligence and generative deep learning to effectuate human-AI collaborative creativity.Aven created the first Artificial Intelligence Arts course at NYU Shanghai in 2019 as an instructor and resident research fellow (2014-2020) in the interactive media art program. He is now an Assistant Professor and Director of the Interactive Experiences Lab at Xian Jiaotong - Liverpool University. He focuses on the application of interactive media and creative AI in art and design. He is also an elected Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts and an Affiliated Fellow at the Chartered Society of Designers.As an artist scholar, his first solo (AI Art) exhibition - The Love of Shanshui, 2019, was held in the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. His recent solo exhibitions include Chinese New Literati, 2019, a touring exhibition at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Convention Centre, the Shanghai DaNing Library, and the Izmir International Fair, Turkey. Some selected group exhibitions include Machine Learning for Creativity and Design, 2019 at AI Art Gallery, Vancouver (2019), Montreal (2018), Canada; Computer Vision for Fashion, Art Design, 2019 at Computer Vision Art Gallery, Seoul, Korean; Dialog: a bit more AI, 2018 at Fouhaus+, Shanghai; and ShanshuiDaDA, 2018 at Yeah! Nah Gallery, Shanghai. With a practice-based research approach and recent interests in cultural innovation, Aven has published more than ten papers with relevant topics at different top-tier venues, such as NeurIPS, ICCV, HCII, ICDAR, ISEA, ACM Artech, etc.

Creative Artificial Intelligence

Human-AI Collaborative Creativity. aka., Augmented Creativity

Interactive Media Art

Emerging Technologies for Creative Practices. e.g., Creative Coding, Physical Computing, AR, MR, etc.

Lecturer, Design School, Xian Jiao Tong - Liverpool University. 2020 - Present.

Artist Creative Director, artMachines Studio, Shanghai. 2019 - Present.

Instructor, Interactive Media Arts (IMA) Program, New York University, Shanghai. 2019 - 2020.

Research Fellow, IMA Program, New York University, Shanghai. 2014 - 2019.

Artist Works with Emerging Technology. Shanghai. 2014 - Present.

IND 407 Advanced Design Visualisation and Communication

IND 209 Studio: Concept Generation Interaction

IND 118 Introduction to Human Computer Interaction

[Selected Course at NYU Shanghai: ] Artificial Intelligence Arts

1st prize, Tencent Next Idea Competition.

Winner, Google PoweredByTF 2.0 Challenge.

1st prize, Intel AI On PC Early Innovation.

1st prize, Google Developer Group Shanghai Design Sprint Hackthon.