Artificial Intelligence
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Mahler-Unfinished: When man and machine make music
At the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival, the tenth symphony by Gustav Mahler will be performed at the Big Concert Night (FRI, Sept. 6). Why this is extraordinary? The composer never finished it – together with an artificially intelligent algorithm, Ali Nikrang, Key Researcher at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, has now completed the piece. In an…
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Volkmar Klien: Total Optimization and Defiance – About artificial intelligence and musical composition
Volkmar Klien, co-curator of the AIxMusic Festival as well as of the Sonic Saturday at the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival, on the relationship between AI and music.
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Understanding AI – a place to experience artificial intelligence
For the new exhibition “Understanding AI” at the Ars Electronica Center, a team of researchers, artists, and developers from Ars Electronica Futurelab designed installations that explain how artificial intelligence actually works. Learn more about it in this interview.
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AI x Music Festival: A look ahead
Music is probably the most emotional art form of all. If we observe people talking about music, recalling their experiences and memories, a difference to their usual style quickly becomes apparent. They touch their hearts, lower their voices, look inside, let their emotions run free. Music is an art form that expresses our feelings in…
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The Wandering Mind: Feel the Pulse of the Earth
Feel global environmental data, experience it with your own senses and be connected to the Blue Planet even more intensively as a human being: This is the aim of The Wandering Mind project by the artist duo slow immediate. In a few weeks their residency will start in Argentina and Austria – organized by the…
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Understanding AI – or: The Nature of Data
Everything is new at the new Ars Electronica Center! From the foyer on down, there are new spaces with a new interior to marvel at. But it’s not just impressive architecture — the exhibition opens up a totally new glimpse into the future. One topic it can’t leave out is artificial intelligence, and the Understanding…
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Creative Artificial Intelligence: Style Transfer
Style transfer technology, actually a byproduct of deep learning, is the main attraction here. In “Creative AI – Style Transfer,” artist-researcher Ali Nikrang shows how artificial neural networks transform a video into an artistic-picturesque world. You can see it at the Ars Electronica Festival September 6-10, 2018.
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Artificial Intelligence and Spirituality: Zenbo Hidaka
A monk who’s also an expert in artificial intelligence is one of the speakers at the 2017 Ars Electronica Festival’s Opening Symposium as well as the artificial intelligence Theme Conference. Zenbo Hidaka will discuss the latest technologies, artificially intelligent machines, and spirituality on September 7th and 8th. Here, he provides some initial insights into his…
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Emre Erkal: “Art Generates New Venues”
March 13th is the deadline for submitting works of media art for 2017 Prix Ars Electronica prize consideration. In this interview, sound artist Emre Erkal, one of this year’s jurors in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category, talks about sounds, architecture and artificial intelligence.