A Live Talk With Bennett Miller, Filmmaker and AI Artist Exploring Reality and Perception

​Bennett Miller is a New York–based artist and filmmaker known for his considered approach to both visual art and cinema. His directorial work and, more recently, imagery created with generative artificial intelligence (AI) pose fundamental questions about human nature and the contingencies of perception, reality, and truth.

​Miller was born in New York City in 1966. His filmography includes The Cruise (1998), Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014). He was nominated for Academy Awards in 2005 and 2014 for Capote and Foxcatcher, respectively; Foxcatcher also earned him the Best Director Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Addressing themes of passion, dislocation, and alienation, Miller’s films are characterized by visual austerity and an intense focus on interiority. His attention to nuance extends into his recent explorations with artificial intelligence. 

​In 2023, Miller debuted a series of sepia-toned pigment prints at Gagosian’s Madison Avenue gallery in New York. Created with early access to OpenAI’s DALL·E model, these works draw on historical photographic techniques yet exist decisively in the digital realm. Resembling photographs from a bygone era, they conjure a haunting familiarity through subtle disruptions of expected reality. This body of work emerged after a five-year period during which Miller researched and filmed an as-yet-unreleased documentary on the transformative impact of emerging technology, in which he interviewed thought leaders in AI such as Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, alongside voices from the humanities, including writer Tom Stoppard.

Artwrld editor-at-large Andrew Goldstein will be hosting a live conversation with Bennett on Thursday, March 20, at 12:00 PM EST.