As the impact of AI grows, it is crucial to examine collectively the infrastructures and frameworks needed for the artistic ecosystem to fully embrace the creative potential of the technology. In this interactive fishbowl session, participants will have the opportunity to share their thoughts and engage in a dialogue with artists, technologists, educators, institutions and policymakers.
What constitutes AI infrastructures for (digital) art? Which frameworks should be implemented to not perpetuate global inequalities? How can Europe best support the ecosystem in AI-driven artistic innovation? What roles do education, ethics and design play? Should the ecosystem be regulated by law, and if so, how?
Language: EN
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Photo: Maximilian PreußAC Coppens
FR
AC is a strategist, conference curator, host, moderator & speaker. They founded THE CATALYSTS, a boutique agency for innovative & creative players working at the crossing of Digital Tech, Film/XR, Music/Sound, Design & Culture. The agency has a coach/sulting focus on the specific challenges of entering new markets, to advise and mentor teams on strategic & marketing planning, business & audience development. They also turn conferences into sites of knowledge exchange and co-creation.
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Photo: Hilary MasonHilary Mason
US
Hilary Mason is the co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door. Prior to Hidden Door she was General Manager of the Machine Learning business unit at Cloudera. She previously founded Fast Forward Labs, an Applied Machine Learning research and consulting startup which Cloudera acquired in 2017. Additionally, she was Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, co-founded HackNY, and was Chief Scientist at bitly. Mason is also a member of the New York hacker collective NYC Resistor.
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Photo: Ingrid KoppIngrid Kopp
ZA/GB
Ingrid Kopp is the co-founder and co-director of Electric South, a nonprofit organisation based in Cape Town supporting immersive work in Africa. Kopp is also co-chair of the Global Future Council on the Future of Metaverse at the World Economic Forum, and is a co-founder of Immerse, a publication on emerging nonfiction storytelling. Prior to moving back to South Africa, she ran the Interactive Department at the Tribeca Film Institute and curated Storyscapes at the Tribeca Festival.
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LaJune McMillianLaJuné McMillian
US
LaJuné is a multidisciplinary artist and educator, creating art that integrates performance, extended reality and physical computing to question our contemporary forms of communication.
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Photo: Margarita GrubinaMargarita Grubina
UA
Margarita Grubina is the Vice President of Business Growth at Respeecher, a reliable AI voice partner that delivers ethical and authentic voices across industries. Respeecher, an Emmy-awarded Ukraine-based voice cloning technology company, benefits from Grubina’s expertise in managing business applications and client relations.
As an active participant in the discourse on AI voices, Grubina contributes to industry conferences and panels, sharing insights gained from experience working with emerging technologies and high-demand production projects.
Since 2019, Respeecher has been working with industry giants like Disney, Sony, Paramount, and Netflix, providing top-notch synthetic voice solutions for a diverse range of projects.
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Photo: Bret HartmMicaela Mantegna
AR
Known as the “Abogamer”, Micaela Mantegna is a video-game lawyer renowned for her expertise in AI ethics, XR policy, creativity and copyright law. Currently a BKC Harvard affiliate and a Salzburg Global and TED Fellow, her TED talk earned more than 1.5 million views globally.
Author of ARTficial: creativity, AI and copyright (2022) and the upcoming Braindancing in the Metaverse: a capitalism of cognitive surveillance, her work explores digital capitalism at the intersections of IP, AI, art, neuroscience and ethics.
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Photo: Agustín FaríasTiara Roxanne
DE
Tiara Roxanne is a Purhépecha (descendant) Mestiza scholar and artist. Roxanne’s work is dedicated to rethinking the ethics of AI through an anti-colonial cyberfeminist lens. They are now working on their concepts, digital attunement and the technological haunt, which expands theory and critique regarding body memory and hauntology within socio-techncial frameworks. As an artist, they work between the digital and the material using textile, from the space of the body as a site of refusal.
Credits
This project has been developed and is presented in the context of the European Digital Deal project. European Digital Deal is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.