Devin Ronneberg (Hawaiian, Okinawan, European) is a transdisciplinary artist born, raised, and based in Los Angeles, working primarily between sculpture, sound, image-making, installation, programing, engineering, computational media, and Artificial Intelligence. His work is currently focused on the unseen implications of emergent technologies and artificial intelligence, information control and collection, and the radiation of invisible forces. 

His work attempts to make sense of the entangled complexity of reality and the ways in which our technological developments affect our perception of our place within it. This focus manifests itself through interrogations of human - non-human relationships, collaboration with artificial intelligence, examination of ideologies dependent on extraction and exploitation, and mediation of the ways in which our tech distorts, dismembers, and disembodies us. Ronneberg’s work explores the potentials of collaborative relationships with artificial intelligence as an opportunity to create systems that extend human capacity for creativity through involved interaction with data.

His practice examines these themes through the dialectics of distance, proximity, and perspective, finding ways to incorporate the presence, location, and position of the body in space as mechanisms of engagement and revelation. These considerations are consistent across his projects and investigations, from proximity based interactive video and sound installations, to interactive AI enabled sculptures and generative digital media systems, to his curatorial event-based practice focused around creating safe creative environments that provide space and time for audiences to have personal, embodied listening experiences.

His work and research has been centered around the unseen implications of emerging technologies in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, specifically our newfound ability to fabricate and synthesize non-realities that approach indistinguishability from our lived reality. Left unchecked, new tools and technologies will continue to radiate confusion and conspiracy with real-world consequences. Ronneberg’s practice critically interrogates these technologies, the fragility of truth, and our susceptibility to misdirection through the creation of custom Deepfakes, AI text generation models, and use of Generative Adversarial Networks for the synthesis of voice, image, and video.

Incorporating aerospace engineering techniques as the basis for his sculptural practice, his work engages the possibilities of modern computation and materialities through the use of techniques and materials employed in the design and prototyping of hand-built experimental aircraft in tandem with hardware and software design for human-computer interfaces and interactive generative digital media systems.

Ronneberg’s work has most recently been exhibited at Chronus Art Center Shanghai, Experimenta 2021 Triennial, MoMA Doc Fortnight 2021, The MacKenzie Art Gallery, EFA Project Space, MoCNA, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and is a Sundance Art of Practice 2021-22 and New Frontiers 2020 Fellow.

Ronneberg co-founded the Los Angeles based imprint Private Selection Records, and produces, DJs, and performs live as Aerial. He holds a BFA in Music Technology: Intelligence, Interaction, and Design from California Institute of the Arts and is an experimental aircraft designer, builder, and pilot with aircraft manufacturer Berkut Engineering.