AI Lab

The Woman-Machine: Performance
Félicia Atkinson (FR)

Watch this performance on the Livestream.
The Woman-Machine: Panel II
Aude Bernheim, Sophie Sakka

The second day of “The Woman-Machine” will feature panels from with Aude Bernheim on AI and ethics and Sophie Sakka on therapeutic robots and autism.
The Woman-Machine: Panel I
Clotilde Chevet, Oulimata Gueye

On Firday the event “The Woman-Machine” will start with talks from Clotilde Chevret about AI and gender, followed by another panel with Oulimata Gueye on afrocyberfeminism.
Random Seed: Using Gardening as a Metaphor for Machine Learning in a Creative Practise
Anna Ridler (UK), Caroline Sinders (US) , Oisin Mac Aodha (IE)
The Wandering Mind
slow immediate (CN/US)

Does the Earth dream? Can our dreams mesh? In “The Wandering Mind," the pervasive sensing, fiber and neural networks covering our planet meet us in our sleep, drawing source material from vast online stores of field recordings and sensor data. For this year’s festival, we ask our AI to dream in the sounds of water and currents, retelling the myth of Tiamat, the sea mother whose life takes a tragic turn when her rebellious children seek power. The story mirrors our modern relationship with Earth’s oceans.
A Face or a Factory: Holey Surface
Aljaž Rudolf, Eva Smrekar (SI)

A Face or a Factory is a family, a corporation and a laboratory of faces, masks and new identities. By creating new personae based on harvesting DNA material and a 3D scan of each individual seller ― who in turn is offered a seat in the company, along with a specific share of its assets― the project aims to modulate different heteronyms ―their biographies, professions and precise function― in contemporary corporative capitalism.
MoneyLab#8 | Minting a Fair Society
MoneyLab

MoneyLab explores the imaginaries of artists, researchers, activists and geeks in search of other possible economies, and urgently interrogates a different financial discourse. Can we use technology critically to support alternative values of cooperation and “commoning” in a world dominated by individualism and competition?
!brute_force
The Culture Yard (DK), CLICK (DK)

Responding to the coronavirus pandemic, the !brute_force project focuses on the future of market-driven diagnostic wearables and AI-based health monitoring technologies.
Termination Shock (The Ends of Everythings)
Andy Gracie (UK/ES)

Termination Shock (The Ends of Everythings) is a triptych project building on parallel obsessions with cosmology and post-apocalyptic scenarios. As a reaction to current disaster rhetoric, the artist foregrounds the unavoidable and inescapable apocalypse of the absolute end. By studying the evolution of the Sun, the gravitational dynamics of our galaxies and the influence of dark matter, this project moves towards the end-of-the-Universe phenomenon known as "heat death".
Deep Steward
Theun Karelse (NI), Ian Ingram (US)

Ian Ingram and Theun Karelse are taking you along on a fieldtrip in parallel locations. Theun in the Netherlands, Ian in California. Theun will explore the relevance of fieldwork programs (such as Random Forests) and in-situ prototyping to artistic practice and Ian shows what constitutes a field experiment, in a virtual safari to some habitats that serve as “training forests” for machines such as DeepSteward.
collectiveMemories – A Virtual Memory Landscape to which the Audience can Contribute
The Culture Yard (DK), CLICK (DK)

collectiveMemories explore the memories that are stored in our bodies through artificial intelligence. It is a virtual piece that turns the participants’ living room into an interactive space where participants can explore their own and other peoples’ memories and contribute to a growing virtual archive of memories.
COVID-19 AI Battle
The Culture Yard (DK), CLICK (DK)

An AI battle between Donald Trump and the WHO, where two politically biased AIs challenge each other and the audience about the “right” interpretation of “reality”. Accessible through the internet, this artwork consists of two artificially intelligent algorithms, which discuss COVID-19 in real-time.
Hearing/Recording/Wandering
slow immediate: Gershon Dublon (US), Xin Liu (CN/US)

Our work has always been a search for planetary connection. Quarantine shifted the dynamics of the search. Our project with AILAB, the Wandering Mind, is a sound experience that guides the dreams of a sleeping audience, its source material drawn from planetary-scale sensing and organized by an AI system.
Online Dialogue with the AI from SH4D0W
The Culture Yard (DK), CLICK (DK)

The audience will be able to have a direct online dialogue/chat with the AI from the SH4D0W performance, which will answer with a humanized voice.
SH4D0W Immersive AI Experience in the 4D Box (3D Hologram Technology)
The Culture Yard (DK), CLICK (DK)

The immersive experience SH4D0W takes place online in the hologram 4D box. The audience will engage in a live dialogue with a performer and an artificial intelligence about sharing and harvesting memories.
!brute_force: Feeding the Algorithm / AI LAB Journey
Maja Smrekar (SI)

Responding to the coronavirus pandemic, the !brute_force project focuses on the future of market-driven diagnostic wearables and AI-based health monitoring technologies. A human and dog performer climb through an installation of platforms and empty spaces. Both wear Electrocardiograph ECG/EKG diagnostic wearables, used for the medical monitoring of chronic heart and respiratory conditions.
In the eyes of the algorithm we are all plants
Špela Petrič (SI)

In conversation with Agnieszka Wolodzko, a philosopher and author who also runs a biolab at the art academy in Enschede, NL, Špela Petrič shares fragments of insights and dilemmas that have arisen from the interdisciplinary Plant-Machine Project.
EXSOMNIUM
Danny Bazo (US), Marko Peljhan (SI/US), Karl Yerkes (US)

From 2013 to 2016, Marko Peljhan, Karl Yerkes and Danny (Daniel) Bazo developed the SOMNIUM project, dedicated to the research and representation of exoplanetary worlds in our galaxy. The work was the result of a three year research residence at the SETI Institute. EXSOMNIUM is its evolved computational continuation.
Abandoned IBM Country Club, Endicott NY
Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne, Hannah Jayanti (US)

Artists Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne discuss data, AI, and IBM’s toxic legacies with filmmaker Hannah Jayanti while exploring the abandoned IBM Country Club in Endicott, New York.
The Robot Suit
Mimi Onuoha (US)

In early 2020, Jess Myers and I participated in Safar, a performative conversation in public space. Hosted by art duo aghili/karlsson, the event involved a live streamed conversation between us as we moved from the center of Stockholm to the duo’s studio on the edge of the city. In reflection of our physical journey, the trip found the two of us conversing about margins, technology, architecture, blackness, and the spaces that we —and others like us— find ourselves constantly moving within and between.