Autonomy
Drums Radio – 2 hours live radio session per day
Aurore Balsa (FR), Delphine Dora (FR), Ambre Dourneau (FR), Romain Gaudillière (FR), Céline Jiang (FR/CN), Pauline Mikô (BE), Nina Queissner (DE), Natalia Rivera Riffo (CL), Victor Villafagne (FR)
The DDD is a conceptual analytical system where the association of three words in D creates a tridimensional investigation space. As sound matter is a mechanic wave working in three dimensions, we assign it to a tridimensional physical space. Thereby, we want to construct a autonomous reflective space where sound projects itself.
Acte de Fe
Marc Vilajuana, Adrià Grandia, Carlos Martorell
Act of faith (Acte de Fe) is an exploration of our relationship with technology, its similarities with the one we have with religion, the tools involved in both processes, and its impact on us and in our sacred/private space. Mise-en-scène will consist in a liturgy performed by Marc Vilajuana (voice, effects, hand drum), Adrià Grandia (acoustic and MIDI hurdy-gurdy, modular synth, laptop, aerophones), Carlos Martorell (coding, synths, motion sensors, artiphon) and a real-time reactive AI trained with religious scores.
Interdependence with Richie Hawtin: AI for humans
Holly Herndon, Matt Dryhust
In this discussion we explode the false binary of humans and machines in the music making process, explore ways that AI systems could actually help get more humans paid rather than displace them, and discuss the necessity of artists having a seat at the table in the process of AI tool development.
Live Performances in occasion of the AIxMusic Opening ceremony
Edmund Campion, CORAIL with Steve Adams of the Rova Saxophone Quartet, and Andrew Blanton, WAVEGUIDE, Claudia Hart, Edmund Campion
Edmund Campion, CORAIL with Steve Adams of the Rova Saxophone Quartet, and Andrew Blanton, WAVEGUIDE, Claudia Hart, Edmund Campion WAVEGUIDE - 2017 - percussion, distributed audio and electronics: Music composition and performance by Andrew Blanton Text by Yvette Granata Composition and software by Andrew Blanton Special thanks to Neal Riley for technical support. CORAIL - version 2020 - improvising saxophonist and interactive computer system: Composition and computer environment design by Edmund Campion, Director, CNMAT Tenor Saxophone by Steve Adams Software contributions by Manuel Poletti, Matthew Wright, Edmund Campion (and a host of others) This concert is being streamed live from the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and made possible by CNMAT Researcher and Technical Director, Jeremy Wagner
BIOMETRIC MIRROR
Lucy McRae, Natasha Greenhalgh, Dr Niels Wouters
Biometric Mirror is an immersive and at times controversial installation that blends the act of casually glancing at one’s reflection with modern algorithmic perspectives on facial perfection. The artwork explores the accuracy and flaws of artificial intelligence and the ‘uncanny valley’ of algorithmic perfection and its potential black mirror outcomes.
SEAWEED SALON
Lichen Kelp, Jessie French
A two-part workshop series by the Seaweed Appreciation Society International that invites you on a field trip to another world - an alternate seaweed reality, where edible algae bioplastics are mixed up alongside refreshing seaweed cocktails. By speculating on a radically sustainable seaweed future, we will be asking if biomutualism can play a part in our everyday lives in the future. A radical sustainable seaweed intervention has never felt more urgent.
Could an insect, human and android communicate through dance?
Prue Lang, Mathieu Briand, Mark Elgar and Alicia Sometimes
Join choreographer Prue Lang, artist Mathieu Briand and evolutionary ecologist Prof Mark Elgar as they discuss their journey with phasmids and BODY / INSECT / MACHINE, a work that explores the body/androids/artificial movement/intelligence on the one side and the body/human instinct/natural movement/nature on the other.
BODY / INSECT / MACHINE
Prue Lang, Mathieu Briand
BODY/ INSECT /MACHINE is a movement experiment between Prue Lang’s choreography, artist Mathieu Briand’s androids and a Phasmid (stick insect). The work explores the body/androids/artificial movement/intelligence on the one side and the body/human instinct/natural movement/nature on the other.
Interview with Jonathan Parsons and Matthew Sleeth
Matthew Sleeth, Jonathan Parsons, Lubi Thomas
In this interview, the Artist Matthew Sleeth will be joined by his producing partner and Experimenta Artistic Director Jonathan Parsons.
"Get Out", a 3D game
Elena Vlasova (RU)
The world of “Get out” happily greets us at its gates, promising a journey through a utopian and positive space. However, as we interact with its inhabitants, the story turns out to be different. In the world of “Get Out,” nature refuses to be vulnerable and actively defends itself with a surrealistic mix of natural objects and Internet artifacts.
Guided tour through the art+science 2020 exhibition in Belgrade
Dobrivoje Lale Eric (RS), Petar Lausevic (RS), Bojan Kenig (RS), Maja Ciric (RS)
This program enables visitors to the Garden to see highlights of the art+science lab exhibition in Belgrade through a guided tour led by the curatorial team and artists. Visitors can gain special insight into the works of art on display, all by local artists and transdisciplinary teams. The aim of the exhibition is to map key themes and concepts through which we can start to critically approach AI.
AI / VI
Aleksandar Bulajić (RS), Ana Popović (RS), Isidora Pejović Blagojević (RS), Maja Maksimović (RS) and Sunčica Pasuljević Kandić (RS)
Walk through Belgrade with the authors of the pervasive game problematizing different aspects of AI. AI / VI is a pervasive game using a smartphone. A specially designed application with an AI function that acts as a guide through the game, occasionally uniting the player and AI into a symbiotic metaorganism. The game has no pre-set routes or endings; the path that opens is gradually shaped by the players. The mapped points of the game open spaces between different institutions in Belgrade and problematize the role of AI in private and public life. The goal of the game is to put the players in a position to re-examine the current human and algorithmic ways of decision-making and their consequences in the near future.
ARTISTIC WARMING!
Round table KompleX KapharnaüM (KxKm) is hosting a discussion, focusing on how artistic production takes environmental challenges into account.
art+science lab 2020 – virtual exhibition
Using Mozilla Hubs, the content of the exhibition in Belgrade will be transformed into a virtual art+science exhibition which anyone can visit and explore.
PRESTIGE Art & Science Residency
Migration – Sunshine Architecture explores the idea of energy autonomy while questioning our apparent ease of access to it. To reconsider our relationship with energy and its consumption, it is interesting to present energy as a limited, thereby precious, resource. Discover how Migration – Sunshine Architecture has been developed by KompleX KapharnaüM (KxKm), a French team comprised of video makers, musicians, technicians, writers, performers, and makers that performs in public space.
The Woman-Machine: Performance
Golem Mécanique (FR)
Watch this performance on Ars Electronica Voyages Channel and the Livestream.
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.
AIxLITERATURE: Poetry Is A Machine
The Grid (US/EU), Vikram Chandra (IN/US), Bryan McCann (US), Andrew Piper (CA), M Eifler (US), Clemens J. Setz (AT), Clara Blume (AT/US), Vanessa Chang (US/SG/AU)
How does the algorithmic contour the lyrical? Nearly a century ago, William Carlos Williams declared, “A poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words.” As artificial intelligence becomes a writing tool, his words take on a new resonance. Some critics of algorithmic literature decry the incursion of automation into this essentially human creative practice.
