Joel Simon

Joel Simon
Resident

Joel Simon is the founder of the popular, massively collaborative, machine learning/artist interface Artbreeder and most recently Prose Painter: an AI-driven, open-source tool which allows humans to “paint with words” by incorporating guidable text-to-image generation into a traditional digital painting interface. Joel’s previous projects include Facebook Graffiti, a chrome browser extension that transformed every photo on Facebook into a canvas for anonymous annotation and conversation, Antimander, an open source software to generate congressional districts and fight gerrymandering, and Derivative Works, an experimental machine learning driven collage generator.

As a multidisciplinary artist, toolmaker and researcher, Joel’s experiments and artworks are motived by “the emergent systems in nature and creativity and their interactions,” and have been featured in numerous exhibitions, conferences, and press including Ars Electronica, NeurIPS, and Science Friday. He is currently the founder and director of Morphogen, a company that turns new machine learning technologies into playful and accessible creative tools. Previously, he did bioinformatics research at Rockefeller University and studied computer science and art at Carnegie Mellon.