Artificial Intelligence

AI x Music: The Question of Autonomy and Human Intention in Art & AI (Episode II)

Davide Quayola (IT), Paola Torres Núñez del Prado (PE), Leslie Garcia (MX), Ali Nikrang (AT)

Im Rahmen von zwei Panels, die von Ars Electronica in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Mutek Montréal konzipiert wurden, wird eine Gruppe etablierter DiskussionsteilnehmerInnen mit unterschiedlichem Hintergrund die Frage der Autonomie und des menschlichen Willens in der KI-bezogenen Kunst diskutieren.

AI x Civil Society: How AI infrastructures can advance the public good

Caroline Sinders (US), Kilian Kleinschmidt (DE), Glacier Kwong (HK), Simon Weckert (DE), Julia Kloiber (AT)

Das Panel befasst sich mit den politischen, gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Veränderungen und Herausforderungen, die durch künstliche Intelligenz hervorgerufen werden.

AI Lab Conference Day

Die AI Lab-Konferenz bietet eine Plattform für Konzepte, Projekte und einzelne AkteurInnen, die sich mit den wissenschaftlichen und technologischen Aspekten der KI sowie mit den Auswirkungen der Entwicklung und des Einsatzes von künstlicher Intelligenz auf Kunst, Kultur und die Gesellschaft insgesamt befassen.

A.I.ECOSYSTEMS_ Hackathon

ARS ELECTRONICA International Online Hackathon 2021 Edition

Ars Electronica is organizing a Hackathon on the topic of A.I.ECOSYSTEMS_: a series of Hands-on workshops, inspiration talks on the topic of A.I.

Sonic Garden - Sun. Sep 12

Sote (IR/US), Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi (IR/CA), Navid Asadi (IR)

Ata Ebtekar aka Sote (b. Hamburg, Germany) is an Iranian-American electronic music composer and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. In the past 30 plus years, his music has been published by various companies, such as Warp Records, Sub Rosa, Opal Tapes, Diagonal, Morphine and Repitch among others. (11 albums, numerous eps, singles and compilation appearances)

Sonic Garden - Thu. Sep 9

Saba Alizadeh (IR), Sohrab Motabar (IR), Reza Atashran (IR)

Saba Alizadeh (IR): Born in Tehran in 1983, Saba Alizadeh is an unparalleled figure at the forefront of contemporary Iranian music. Alizadeh subsequently studied experimental sound practices at Calarts in Los Angeles. He began expanding his musical cosmos utilizing different instruments and methods of composing. Apart from Kamancheh, no-input mixer, modular synthesizer, laptop have been the main instruments that Alizadeh has created his sonic cosmos with. Alizadeh also uses a lot of manipulated historic audio recordings and field recordings in a neo-musique concrète fashion. Treating sound as an object has always been Alizadeh’s fascination. 

CODE: Reclaiming Digital Agency

IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] (NL), School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe (DE)

As our lives are increasingly taking place online, digital rights are important. But what are our online rights? How can we influence policies? CODE brings together artists, non-artists, politicians and policymakers in a dialogue to implement and improve laws and legislation that will protect our rights as digital citizens and online consumers.

Uncanny Dream: Artist-talks with exhibition participants

Gray Cake (Kate Pryanik, Sasha Serechenko) (RU), Mitry Grankov (RU)

Gray Cake (Kate Pryanik, Sasha Serechenko) (RU) the “Dreams of the Machine” artists work with the phenomenon of AI and, starting from the concept of human consciousness, they ask the question of the existence of “algorithmic unconscious”. Mitry Grankov – “Art translator”. Using the phone camera, the translator is asked to “translate” real works of art from museum collections into different languages.

AI & art

Helena Nikonole (RU)

The lecture is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence in an artistic context. Going through the projects of Uncanny Dream exhibition, we will explore three of possible approaches to Neural Networks in art: aesthetic, utopian and dystopian.

Panel Discussion “Curating hybrid events. Ars Electronica 2021 experience”

Helena Nikonole (RU), Oxana Chvyakina (RU), Olga Vad (RU), Natalia Fedorova (RU), Olga Zubova (RU)

The panel is dedicated to the challenges of curating hybrid events in times of pandemic: Helena Nikonole, Oxana Chvyakina, Olga Vad, Natalia Fedorova and Olga Zubova will present their hybrid (online\offline) projects and share their curatorial experiences and perspectives.