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Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation
Tomomi Adachi (JP), Andreas Dzialocha (DE), Marcello Lussana (IT)
Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation is a project by Tomomi Adachi, Andreas Dzialocha and Marcello Lussana. They built an AI called “tomomibot” which learned Adachi’s voice and improvisation techniques using neural network algorithms. The performance raises questions about the logic and politics of computers in relation to human culture.
Regional STARTS Centers
FRI 6.9. | 12:15 – 13:15 During STARTS Day, the Regional STARTS Centers take the opportunity to present some of their major activities through the prism of education.
Trajectories
FRI 6.9. | 15:30 – 17:00 Speakers: Sarah Petkus (US), Aza Raskin (US), Andrew Pickering (UK), Manuela Naveau (AT)
FM4 Extraleben
ORF radio FM4 (AT)
FM4 Extraleben is characterized by well-researched yet casual, sociable, and understandable talks, collectively negotiating arguments, exploring aspects and exchanging theme-specific/relevant anecdotes.
Gallery Spaces Panel I: Unlocking the power of digital art and emerging technologies to radically disrupt the art market
How will we value art in the future? To guide our discussion, we will look at the two major trends affecting the art market currently. First, the high end art market has a reputation of being notoriously conservative and lacking parity. Yet increasingly diverse and empowered artists and consumers are heralding a radical market shift that is about to transform the art world. Second, rapidly evolving digital technologies offer unprecedented creative opportunities for artists and the simultaneous promise of decentralized infrastructure is radically disrupting strongly held ideas of art ownership and collection. How will this emerging mega trend of art tech affect the role and value of art in the future?
Artificial Intelligence Lab
Melina Undesser (AT), Sebastian Lindinger (AT), Software Architects (AT)
This open lab should help to familiarize the participants with AI during the festival in a playful way, fostering an interesting discourse about the possibilities, boundaries and dangers of this technology.
abc-Dojo: digital education for children 5 years and older
Pädagogische Hochschule Oberösterreich (Teachers' College of Upper Austria)
At the abc-Dojo you can program floor robots and try to trick an artificial intelligence or even create a speaking image!
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.
Expert Tour: Prix Ars Electronica: Life’s intelligence, beyond human cognition
Jens Hauser (DE/FR/DK)
Prix Ars Electronica’s new category “Artificial Intelligence & Life Art” sparks discussions about the links between the largely ambiguous notions of “intelligence” and “aliveness.” Jury member, curator, and media theoretician Jens Hauser will reveal the criteria of the jury process and present selected positions out of the 15 award-winning art works.
Behind the Robots Eyes
Daman Diawara (US)
In the framework of the Scientist in Residence Program, Gluon launched a project with artist Manthia Diawara and researchers Tarek Besold (Alpha Health AI Lab) and Raoul Frese (Faculty of Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, VU Amsterdam). The first meeting took place at Manthia’s residency in the village of Yenne, near Dakar, Senegal. The artist and the researchers reflected together on the relationship of Senegalese people with technology and artificial intelligence, and they carried on interviews with women working on the market, fishermen and a traditional healer. The project will be further developed over the course of 2019 and will result in a movie.
