K Allado-McDowell: The Known Lost

May 07 - Sep 07 2025

K Allado-McDowell is a writer, artist, and musician. They have authored several books with GPT-3, co-edited and contributed to multiple anthologies, and regularly publish essays on art, AI and ecology. They created the neuro-opera Song of the Ambassadors, and record and release music under the name Qenric. They established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google in 2015. Allado-McDowell has spoken at TED, The Long Now Foundation, New Museum, Tate, Serpentine Gallery, HKW, Moderna Museet, Christie’s, MacArthur Foundation, MfN Berlin, Ars Electronica, Sónar, and many other venues, and has taught at SCI-Arc, Strelka, and IAAC.

Image: K Allado-McDowell, The Known Lost (concept rendering), 2024. Courtesy the artist.