artificial intelligence
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
