The Algorithm and the Park

Onassis Stegi participates in the digital Ars Electronica Festival for a second year, with the program “The Algorithm and the Park”, presenting highlights from the You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens festival, which took place from June 24 to July 25, 2021.
The You & AI festival centered on a physical exhibition at Pedion tou Areos park in Athens, which will be presented at Ars Electronica Garden Athens through a short documentary. The exhibition staged 25 international works, within an artificially natural public space, and was complemented by online conferences on AI, ethics and art.
Public spaces define a city’s psyche. They constitute the embodiment of collective experiences; they are reflections of a city’s polity and politics; they echo its socio-economic relationships; they contain our common dreams, feelings, and ambitions; they are the material the polis is made of. In an algorithmic era, the physical public space is increasingly intertwined with -when it is not devoured by- the algorithmic public space. It aims at bringing all these issues, lurking in the background of our urban lives, to the frontstage of civic life.
By bringing the Algorithm in the Park, we pose the question of what the boundaries of post-human subjectivity are: who are we and how do we position ourselves in an infinitely re-morphed-by-AI world? Is there a new deal, a new social contract that is being tacitly formed between humans and non-humans? Staged at Campus Martius (Pedion tou Areos), a metaphor for the constant conflict between different forms of identity, subjectivity, and collective experience, the “You and AI” exhibition poses and invites you to contemplate on fundamental existential questions for the post-human experience.

I BELONG TO MYSELF, EVI KALOGIROPOULOU@Stelios Tzetzias

CUSP, JAKE ELWES@Stelios Tzetzias

The Substitute, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg@Stelios Tzetzias

INSULAE [Of the Island], Nye Thompson@Stelios Tzetzias

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You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens

Memo Akten (TR) // Algorithmic Justice League (US) // Hiba Ali (US, CA, PK) // Bill Balaskas & Stop LAPD Spying Coalition (GR, US) // Tega Brain, Julian Oliver, Bengt Sjölén (AU, DE) // Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein, Marcia Diaz Agudelo (US) // Stephanie Dinkins (US) // Jake Elwes (UK) // Entangled Others (Sofia Crespo & Feileacan McCormick) (AR, NO) // Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (UK) // Kyriaki Goni (GR) // Evi Kalogiropoulou (GR) // Katerina Kana (GR) // Egor Kraft (RU) // Ilan Manouach (GR) // Manolis Manousakis & Afroditi Panagiotakou (GR) // Naho Matsuda (DE-JP) // Helena Nikonole (RU) // Anna Ridler (UK) // slow immediate (Gershon Dublon & Xin Liu) (US) // Jenna Sutela (FI)// Nye Thompson (UK) // Mushon Zer-Aviv, Dan Stavy, Eran Weissenstern (IL)

You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens is a physical exhibition at Pedion tou Areos park in Athens, which took place in the context of a three-week festival by Onassis Stegi between June 24-July 25 2021, exploring how and by whom algorithmic systems are constructed and defined, and how they can impact and reshape society and our perception of the world.

“On Art & AI” Conference, Day 1

Morehshin Allahyari (US) Sarah Allen (UK) Stephanie Dinkins (US) Suzanne Kite (US) Melanie Lenz (UK) Jonas Lund (SE) Irini Mirena Papadimitriou (UK) Anna Ridler (UK) Tamiko Thiel (US)

On Art & AI is a two-day conference exploring how artists engage critically, conceptually and artistically with discourses around artificial intelligence, creativity, intelligence, labour and ethics.

“On Art & AI” Conference, Day 2

Hiba Ali (US, CA, PK) Bill Balaskas (GR) Lauren F. Klein (US) Mushon Zer-Aviv (IL) Erinma Ochu (UK) Joana Moll (ES) Memo Akten (TR) Prodromos Tsiavos (GR) Stop LAPD Spying Coalition (US)

On Art & AI is a two-day conference exploring how artists engage critically, conceptually and artistically with discourses around artificial intelligence, creativity, intelligence, labour and ethics.

“The Ethics of Disruption in Art and AI”

Rocio Berenguer (FR) Léa Deshusses (FR) Benoit Favre (FR) Tyler Reigeluth (FR)

This excerpt from AI Summer School “The Ethics of Disruption: From AI to Bioethics in Art and Research”, explores the constituent parts of an ethics framework for approaching, understanding and regulating disruptive technologies focusing on responsible research and innovation.

Credits

Program Curation: Christos Carras, Prodromos Tsiavos, Production Coordination: Heracles Papatheodorou, Katerina Varda, EU Programs Coordination: Dora Vougiouka, EU Programs & Production Support: Vera Petmeza

“You and AI: Through the Algorithmic Lens” festival credits:
Curated by Irini Mirena Papadimitriou, FutureEverything, Curatorial Direction: Afroditi Panagiotakou, Executive Director / Scientific Advisor: Prodromos Tsiavos, Exhibition Design / Exhibition Production Lead: Studioentropia Architects (Yota Passia, Panagiotis Roupas), Artistic Direction: Polydoros Karyofyllis (Poka-Yio), Executive Producer: Christos Carras, Technical Director: Lefteris Karabilas, Production Coordination: Heracles Papatheodorou, Katerina Varda, Line Production: Despina Sifniadou, Yorgos Stergiou, Spyridoula Gerazi, Commissioned and produced by Onassis Stegi, Curated by FutureEverything, In the context of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab network, Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union