AI Lab

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.