artificial intelligence
STARTS Day
The STARTS Day focuses on the STARTS Initiative and offers insights into collaborative practices at the intersection of art, technology, science and industry. In different discursive formats and presentations, extraordinary examples from this field are presented and their implementations, methods and impacts identified.
Innovationsforum GET.Inspired
The power of individual technology groups and their exclusive role in shaping the future is increasingly subject to criticism. We are called upon to critically question and actively participate, instead of remaining passive victims of digital change. People and companies show how, by thinking against all rules, new paths can be taken outside the comfort zone.
Panel: Theatre in the Digital Age
How can digital technology add to the magical, theatrical moment? Digital theatre entails a multitude of approaches and perspectives.
AIxMusic Panels
Renata Schmidtkunz (DE)
Renata Schmidtkunz hosts four panel discussions in the summer refectory, prominently featuring Josef Penninger, Sophie Wennerscheid, Amanda Cox, Markus Poschner, and others.
STAR VALLEY
Marko Peljhan (SI/US), Matthew Biederman (CA/US)
STAR VALLEY uses two spark-gap transmitters in dialogue, both controlled by a natural language processing AI algorithm trained on the US Department of Defense and NATO nicknames and descriptions of programs, activities, exercises and special access programs. The earliest form of wireless transmission is paired with contemporary computational developments to open a window onto the landscape of the accountability of secrecy.
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.
AIxMusic Dialogues
In four panel discussions on Saturday, experts will address topics such as creativity, "bio art" and gaming in relation to the use and research of artificial intelligence in music.
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.
AIxMusic Day
Artificial intelligence is changing our understanding of music. Starting with a series of talks, the AIxMusic Matinée invites universities and institutions share their research and present an overview about what it is happening today in those incubators. The lecture series also deals with the massive changes in the music industry, triggered by the developments of the AI and the latest trends in the music market.
Captcha Candy Box
Ziyu Zhang (CN)
In daily life, people are unknowingly forced to contribute playbor to big corporations, which use it for their machine training or other benefit generating. In this project, I attempt to discuss the value of playbor behind Captcha. As users finish the Captcha tasks, candies are stored in the installation one by one, which visually represents the value of users’ playbor.
