POSTCITY, First Floor, Conference Hall

Hurtling Towards Sustainability: Education, Work, and the Arts

Joanna Bryson (GB/DE

What are the limits of what we can do with AI? Will there be a role for humans in the future? For how many humans? Can we all find a place in society?
GET.Inspired: Innovating Higher Education through Interdisciplinary Practice

Laura Veart (GB), Georg Russegger (AT), Ken Nakagaki (JP/US), Andreas Ingerl (DE), Qian Ye (CN), Nikoletta Karastathi (GB), Carla Barreiros (PT/AT)

In this engaging session, seven distinguished educators from diverse institutions will come together to share their experiences in advancing interdisciplinary practices within higher education. Each speaker will present a unique program or project that exemplifies their commitment to integrating multiple disciplines to address complex societal challenges.
The Future of Open Research and Practice-based Learning

Stefanie Lindstaedt (DE), Laura Veart (GB), Georg Russegger (AT), LaJuné McMillian (US), Daniela Jacob (DE), Joanna Bryson (GB/DE), Lauren Vargas (US)

Open Science is at the center of European research policy. Educational initiatives and research structures are being developed and implemented to open up European science and research, making them more efficient, seamless, transparent, and robust, as well as responsive to society’s needs and expectations. But how can we foster a common vision for opening education…
Welcome to the IT:U FOUNDING LAB

Stefanie Lindstaedt (DE/AT), Pinyao Liu (CN), Amanda Bennetts (AU)

Welcome to the IT:U Founding Lab Day and presentation of the FOUNDING LAB publication, a documentation of the joint IT:U and Ars Electronica summer school and fall term program in 2023/2024
The Price Tag: Assessing the Value of AI Art

Lisa Käde (DE), Jo Lawson-Tancred (UK), AC Coppens (FR)

The value of art is already an intricate and ever-evolving subject, depending on many parameters which can make pricing and remuneration a tricky subject. How do the landscape, values and value chains change when AI is introduced?
AI in Creativity and Critique — A fireside chat with Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl (DE), AC Coppens (FR)

We will close the day with a fireside chat with Hito Steyerl, a visionary filmmaker, moving-image artist, writer and innovator of the essay documentary. With a keen interest in media and technology and a PhD in philosophy, Steyerl brings a unique and critical view on AI’s role in the art world.
Creative Europe Get-together

We cordially invite our European partners and the members of our network to join us for the Creative Europe Get-together. The Creative Europe program is a funding scheme of the European Union to support the culture, creative and audiovisual sector. This meeting gives members of cultural institutions the chance to network in a relaxed atmosphere.
The Sparks: Igniting AI for Artistic Creation

Paul Trillo (US), Sasha Stiles (US), Marta Verde (ES), Maria Arnal (ES)

Artists who have found a unique voice by placing AI at the core of their creative work talk to us about best practices and stories of failure, new possibilities and current limitations. In a series of presentations spanning digital art, music, film and poetry, we map the potential that AI brings to the art world—from…
ARTificial: Legality, Ethics and Aesthetics of Generative AI

Micaela Mantegna (AR)

This session begins by examining the concept of creativity: Can we truly conceive of „artificial creativity“? Is AI capable of true innovation, or is it a tool reflecting human input? As AI-generated art becomes indistinguishable from human-created works, should we think of a “Turing test” for creativity? Does this blurring of lines influence how we legally…
Welcome & Introduction to the day

Rachel Donald (GB)

Credits Presented in the context of the Studiotopia project. Studiotopia is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Welcome & Introduction to the day

Frederike Kaltheuner (DE)

Bios Credits This project has been developed and is presented in the context of the STARTS in the City project. STARTS in the City has received funding from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No. LC-01984766.
Reclaiming Digital Technologies | Is breaking up Big Tech enough?

Francesca Bria (IT), Jillian C. York (US), Christoph Knogler (AT), Frederike Kaltheuner (DE)

The concentration of power that makes and runs the present digital ecosystem signals a need to reclaim digital technologies. But in a paradigm that allows, if not encourages, monopolistic tendencies, is breaking up Big Tech enough to ensure new technologies – even when developed by a more diverse range of actors – operate differently? Reclaiming…