AI Lab

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.

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.

The Museum of Edible Earth

masharu (RU/NL)

The Museum of Edible Earth is a cross-disciplinary project with a core collection of earth samples which are eaten for various reasons by different people across the globe.

Baitul Ma’mur: House of Angels

Joe Davis (US), Sarah Khan (PK)

The project is about to keep 2.417 quintillion angels on the head of a pin.

The Wandering Mind

Gershon Dublon (US), Xin Liu (CN), with guest artist Xiao Xiao (US/FR)

Shape your dreams with the sounds of our world. The Wandering Mind is an AI-powered micro-sampler that assembles winding soundscapes from thousands of global field recordings found online. In curated performances, group naps and guided mind-wanderings, we convene collective actions of sleeping together. In this special series for Ars, entitled “Field Sketches from Imaginary Travels,” guest performer Xiao Xiao combines the ambient soundscapes of Wandering Mind with improvisational theremin, keyboard, and vocals.

Made to Measure

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

Is it possible to create a doppelganger of someone using only their personal Google data? The artistic data experiment MADE TO MEASURE allows viewers to tangibly experience what conclusions can be drawn about a person's character, psychology and future behavior through algorithms. Who determines who we are and who we think we are?

Cypress Trees, a beginning

Anna Ridler (UK), Caroline Sinders (US)

How can AI help us to face the climate crisis and other entwined challenges? This machine-learning-generated moving image piece gives insights into the complexity of data sets and raises questions about deforestation and the politics of climate change, memory and loss. Anna Ridler and Caroline Sinders created a special dataset of the Bald Cypress on the gulf coast of the USA, where both have family ties.

Moon Rabbit

Sarah Petkus (US), Mark J. Koch (US)

In a research and development phase lasting several months, Sarah Petkus and Mark J. Koch attempt to teach a suite of artificial intelligences to recognize familiar shapes and objects in images of star clusters, planetary surfaces, and other celestial bodies.

Triopic Spectacle

PDNB (Postdigital Neobaroque) (AT/DE/IT/GB)

Triopic Spectacle endeavours to flatten the hierarchies between the real and the potential. It challenges the outmoded, myopic, binary thinking of local/global, 1s/0s, individual/collective, real/virtual, analog/digital, natural/artificial by establishing two-way windows, bridges, interfaces, portals and glitches between three ‘triopic’ domains: ‘real reality’, ‘mixed reality’, ‘virtual reality’.

Codex Virtualis

Interspecifics (INT)

Codex Virtualis is an artistic research framework oriented towards the generation of an evolving taxonomic collection of hybrid bacterial-AI organisms.