European ARTificial Intelligence Lab

The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab will be bringing AI related scientific and technological topics to general citizens and art audiences in order to contribute to a critical and reflective society. The project will be focusing on aspects beyond the technological and economic horizon to scrutinize cultural, psychological, philosophical and spiritual aspects.

Ai-Da Robot Artist

Oxfordians (UK, INT), Aidan Meller (UK), Lucy Seal (UK)

Ai-Da ist der weltweit erste ultrarealistische KI-Künstlerroboter. Sie kann zeichnen und ist Performance-Künstlerin. Als Maschine mit KI-Fähigkeiten ist ihre Künstlerpersönlichkeit selbst das Kunstwerk, ebenso wie ihre Zeichnungen, Performancekunst und kollaborativen Gemälde und Skulpturen. Sie ermutigt uns, über ethische Fragen bei der Entwicklung neuer Technologien nachzudenken.

Anatomy of an AI System

Vladan Joler (RS), Kate Crawford (AU)

Anatomy of an AI uses the example of Amazon Echo to show the countless components and factors behind the production of artificial intelligence systems. But this process is so complex that its full extent can hardly be comprehended.

Distributed Robotic Assembly for Timber Structures

Samuel Leder (US), Ramon Weber (CH)

Dieses multidisziplinäre Forschungsprojekt beschäftigt sich mit autonomen maschinellen Kollektiven, die bauliche Strukturen erstellen.

Doing Nothing with AI

Emanuel Gollob (AT)

In order to promote a doing nothing state in 2019, Emanuel Gollob and his team created a neuroreactive robotic installation, using live EEG-measurements and a real-time adapting choreography. Over time a generative algorithm increasingly learns to move the installation in a way that best supports the viewer’s mind-wandering process.

Facebook Algorithmic Factory

Vladan Joler (RS)

Facebook Algorithmic Factory sheds light on the invisible processes that take place inside the world’s largest social network. Inside this black box, non-transparent algorithms are deciding what kind of content will become a part of our reality, what will be censored or deleted, which ideas will spread and what news will gain most visibility. They are also defining new forms of labour and exploitation.

Feminist Data Set

Caroline Sinders (US)

Feminist Data Set acts as a means to combat bias and introduce the possibility of data collection as a feminist practice, aiming to produce a slice of data to intervene in larger civic and private networks. Exploring its potential to disrupt larger systems by generating new forms of agency, this work asks: can data collection itself function as an artwork?

Gender Shades

Joy Buolamwini (US), Timnit Gebru (ETH)

How well do IBM, Microsoft, and Face++ AI services guess the gender of a face? The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.

What a Ghost Dreams Of

h.o (INT)

What is a “ghost”? Generally it is understood as an inner “soul” and a mysterious outward appearance. What a Ghost Dreams Of grapples with a new “ghost” of our time: digital surveillance in our society.

Ghosthouse

h.o (INT)

A deep dive into the information “swamp” is a kind of out-of-body experience. Smartphones, tablets, computer screens, and televisions become gateways for our spirits to embark on a journey.

In Posse

Charlotte Jarvis (UK)

In Posse is an attempt to make the world’s first “female” semen using the artist’s own stem cells and material donated by multiple women, trans and gender-non-binary people. *In Posse* seeks to use science and art to undermine traditional notions of patriarchal power and to examine the meaning of gender now and in the future.

Learning to See: Gloomy Sunday

Memo Akten (TR)

Learning to See: Gloomy Sunday is a video and an interactive installation where the recordings taken by a live camera aimed at a table covered with objects are analyzed by a series of neural networks trained on different data sets (ocean, fire, clouds, and flowers).

MegaPixels

Adam Harvey (US), Jules LaPlace (US)

The project aims to provide a critical perspective on machine learning image datasets, one that might otherwise be overlooked by academic and industry-funded artificial intelligence think tanks. Each dataset presented on this site undergoes a thorough review of its images, intent, and funding sources.

NORAA – Machinic Doodles

Jessica In (UK/AU)

Machinic Doodles is an interactive game installation that examines the collaboration between a human and a robot named NORAA, an artificial intelligence that is learning to draw.

Women Reclaiming AI

Birgitte Aga (UK), Coral Manton (UK)

Women Reclaiming AI is a collaborative AI voice assistant and activist artwork made by a growing community of self-identifying women. Creating a platform for collective writing and editing, the project co-creates an AI that challenges gender roles.

SEER: Simulative Emotional Expression Robot

Takayuki Todo (JP)

SEER is a compact humanoid robot developed through intensive research into the gaze and facial expressions of human beings.

SHE BON

Sarah Petkus (US)

The SHE BON project is a collection of body augments which sense aspects of the wearer’s physical state in order to communicate sexual arousal. Collectively, the systems that have been developed for this project make up a highly personalized “suit of amour” capable of orchestrating sensor input from the body in order to display mechanical and electronic forms of performative output which express subtle aspects of the wearer’s physical state in a manner that characterizes their sexual identity.

The Seeker

Nye Thompson (UK)

The Seeker is a proto-AI that travels the world virtually looking through compromised surveillance camera eyes and describing its visions. Named for Ptah-Seker, the artist/technologist god of Ancient Egypt, who created the world by speaking the words to describe it, this project looks at how the act of describing the world might establish a whole new worldview for machines and humans alike.

UngenauBot

Ilmar Hurkxkens (NL), Fabian Bircher (CH)

UngenauBot combines highly developed robot technology with an everyday rubber glove performing banal activities. By deliberately exploiting empirical errors in robotic systems and artificial intelligence, this work demonstrates the limits of technology when things don’t go according to plan.

From the perspective of 13 major cultural operators in Europe (Ars Electronica, Center for Promotion of Science, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, LABoral, Kapelica Gallery, Science Gallery Dublin, Onassis Stegi, The Culture Yard, GLUON, Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, SOU Festival, le lieu unique, Waag), the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab centers visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence. An extensive activity program in the form of exhibitions, labs, workshops, conferences, talks, performances, concerts, mentoring and residencies will foster interdisciplinary work, transnational mobility and intercultural exchange.

Partners and institutions:

• https://ars.electronica.art/ailab/en/network/

The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.