European ARTificial Intelligence Lab Journeys

In addition to scientific, technological and economic aspects, the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab focuses strongly on legal, cultural, educational and ethical dimensions of Artificial Intelligence. This allows a holistic model that considers human values and elementary questions of what AI should or should not do, as well as how AI systems are developed, deployed, used and monitored, and by whom. From the perspective of 13 major cultural operators in Europe and led by Ars Electronica, the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab centers visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence.

While industries are pumping massive amounts of money into cutting-edge technologies to develop intelligent systems, we are connecting artists with research institutions and scientists to fill a gap in dealing with the social components and political questions arising from these enormous technological advances.

Accessing what you always knew you needed

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (UK)

How do you access your past when it doesn’t exist anymore? How do you see yourself when the world refuses to reflect you? How do you archive someone who has been erased by the archive? We know who we are. We feel the loss of our history with every moment we breathe. With each story we remember another is lost. We need each other. We kept each other here. Yet we hardly seem to exist.

How To Strand Astronauts on the Moon

Halsey Burgund (US), Francesca Panetta (UK)

The narrative of In Event of Moon Disaster is a journey; a journey filled with the technical and emotional triumphs of individuals and a nation that ultimately comes to a tragic end on the lunar surface.

Black Movement Library

LaJuné McMillian (US)

BML is a library for activists, performers & artists to create diverse XR projects, a space to research how and why we move, and an archive of Black existence. BML seeks to grow community through the use of performances, XR experiences, workshops, conversations and toolmaking.

FuneralPlay

Ruini Shi (UK)

A new technology start-up company claims to offer a certain kind of ”immortality”: users can choose between erasing the deceased’s electronic footprint or uploading it to the virtual heaven, permanently secured and published on an immutable blockchain, allowing the addition of remembrance NFTs to the memorial.

Made to Measure – I is a Search Engine

Gruppe Laokoon (DE), Cosima Terrasse (FR), Moritz Riesewieck (DE), Hans Block (DE)

BML is a library for activists, performers & artists to create diverse XR. Is it possible to create the doppelganger of someone using only their personal Google data? This question stood at the core of the project Made to Measure. Using personal online data, the group Laokoon created a doppelganger of a person they did not know, telling “her” story.

Optic nerves and their time

Geocinema (Solveig Qu Suess, Asia Bazdyrieva) (INT)

The work will focus on the key questions which sit at the core of Geocinema – both as a documentary-led research project and a collaborative practice. We will depart from the unobvious images of the Earth (such as calibration images, mathematical modeling of climates, satellite footage, etc.) to speak of the distributed and decentralized processes of sensing and imaging.

Perihelion

Antti Tenetz (FI)

In his work Perihelion (2019), Antti Tenetz combines images of space, celestial bodies, technology, space science and life. Applying machine learning, the work brings out dreamlike images of the worlds and beings of possible futures in space.

Spaces Camouflaged by AI

KyungJin Jeong (KR)

As a highly developed photographic technology, image distortion can be created via photo-editing software. With enough pictures, machine learning can determine attributes. I will explore the gap between advertising and reality by visiting a common room in a single house in Seoul.

Ubuntu – The Other Me!

Simon Weckert (DE)

The video journey wants to create a dialog between the artworks by the artist and AI-driven technologies in the process of making and creating.

The Zizi Show – Enter the World of Deep Fake Drag Cabaret

Jake Elwes (UK)

Drag Queens, Drag Kings, Drag Things and Artificial Intelligence…Enter into the world of The Zizi Show (2020), a deepfake drag cabaret, a virtual online stage hosting a groundbreaking new show with a twist. It features acts that have been constructed using deepfake technology, learning how to do drag by watching a diverse group of human performers. The Zizi Show dissects one of the dominant myths about AI: the notion that ‘an AI’ is a thing we might mistake for a person.

Credits

These video commissions are presented in the framework of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (UK)

Halsey Burgund (US), Francesca Panetta (UK)

LaJuné McMillian (US)

Ruini Shi (UK)

Gruppe Laokoon (DE), Cosima Terrasse (FR), Moritz Riesewieck (DE), Hans Block (DE)

Geocinema (Solveig Qu Suess, Asia Bazdyrieva) (INT)

Antti Tenetz (FI)

KyungJin Jeong (KR)

Simon Weckert (DE)

Jake Elwes (UK)

Credits

A NEW DIGITAL DEAL

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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (UK)

Halsey Burgund (US), Francesca Panetta (UK)

LaJuné McMillian (US)

Ruini Shi (UK)

Gruppe Laokoon (DE), Cosima Terrasse (FR), Moritz Riesewieck (DE), Hans Block (DE)

Geocinema (Solveig Qu Suess, Asia Bazdyrieva) (INT)

Antti Tenetz (FI)

KyungJin Jeong (KR)

Simon Weckert (DE)

Jake Elwes (UK)

Credits

A NEW DIGITAL DEAL

#arselectronica21#newdigitaldeal

#arselectronica21
#newdigitaldeal