Partners in life and frequent creative collaborators, Bay Area-based artists Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg have worked together on art projects and numerous documentaries, including the Emmy-nominated series The Future Starts Here, which includes episodes “Why We Love Robots,” “Robots, Botox, and Google Glass,” and “Tech Shabbats.” They received multiple awards for their documentary short, The Tribe, “an unauthorized, unorthodox ... history of the Jewish people and the Barbie doll,” which premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and continues to be screened worldwide.  Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain have also worked independently for decades as artists—including being shown at the Whitney and at MoMA in New York.

 

Shlain is an interdisciplinary artist whose works in film, sculpture, and performance explores ideas in feminism, neuroscience, philosophy, technology, and nature.  

 

Goldberg is an artist and professor of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he questions the boundaries between the digital and natural worlds.  

 

They are co-founders of The Association of Free Association.