Amos Tramel

Amos Tramel is currently a senior at the University of Missouri – Columbia studying philosophy, linguistics, and studio art. He is currently working on his undergraduate thesis on the ethics of AI in war, and a yet untitled body of work concerning the relation of ownership, and the subject / object distinction present in the photographic act.

Artistic Practice —

As a lens based artist I am concerned with perception, and information. The photographic act gives me a set relation to the world, that of surveyor, of thief, of cultivator, of agent, of subject. My production is wholly dependent on the world around me; to create I must put my body in spatial relation to different parts of this world. The creative act allows me to give form and life to the way I come to see and recognize the world.

Philosophical Practice —

As a philosopher I am omnivorous and motivated almost entirely by curiosity. Lately I have been studying formal semantics and Thomas Reid in my coursework, Dewey’s aesthetics in my personal practice, as well as finishing my undergraduate thesis on the responsibility gap problem in the ethics of AI.

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