artificial intelligence

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).

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.

Experiential AI: Entanglements – Fair, Moral and Transparent AI
European ARTificial Intelligence Lab
SUN, 8.9. | 13:30 – 15:00 Drew Hemment (UK), Vaishak Belle (IN), Larissa Pschetz (DE), Dave Murray-Rust (UK)

Inclusive AI Applied
European ARTificial Intelligence Lab
SUN, 8.9. | 11:00 – 13:30 Birgitte Aga (NO) & Coral Manton (UK), Max Haarich (DE), Vladan Joler (RS), Maja Smrekar (SI), Joana Moll (ES), Aisling Murray (IE), Margherita Pevere (IT/DE)

Bias Research
European ARTificial Intelligence Lab
SUN, 8.9. | 10:00 – 11:00 Roberto Viola (IT), Derrick de Kerckhove (CA), Eveline Wandl-Vogt (AT), Clara Blume (AT), Andreas Broeckmann (DE)

Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution – Theme Conference
On Friday, the conference moves forward in time to explore current and future prospects of our increasingly digital world. Art and creativity have always been viewed as important contributors to ensuring that future technological implementations will happen under consideration of enlightened, critical and qualified perspectives.

European Platform for Digital Humanism - A conference by the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab
European ARTificial Intelligence Lab
The Sunday conference program will concentrate on European challenges to find a distinctly European approach to shaping our future. How can Europe guarantee that emerging technologies won’t lose touch with our humanity and humane values?

Prix Forum
One of the absolute highlights of every Ars Electronica is the opportunity to meet Prix Ars Electronica prize-winners and to attend Prix forums to hear the artists elaborate on their oeuvre and current work. Moderated by Prix Ars Electronica jurors, these discussions provide fascinating insights into this year’s categories: Computer Animation, Digital Musics & Sound Art and Artificial Intelligence & Life Art.

Expanded Animation – OUT OF THE BOX
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg Campus (AT), Ars Electronica (AT)
In collaboration with the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus, the 7th Expanded Animation symposium carries on a process launched in 2013 — mapping the wide-ranging domain of animated worlds of imagery beyond the well-trodden paths. The symposium stays the course originally set at its inception, and presents theoretical positions and perspectives from the art world, the R&D field and the industrial sector.

Gallery Spaces Panels
At the Gallery Space Panels 2019, experts will discuss the transformation and future of the media art market. The interaction between science, art and the market will be analysed from a variety of perspectives in seven prominent discussion rounds.