dialogue

Sas (Social Adaptation System)

Lorène Ceccon (FR)

Today, good mood is the sine qua non condition of the terrifying “soul of the company,” and inconsistency of mood is deemed unacceptable. Starting from the digital shift of the French Labor Agency, Sas is an extravagant AI which establishes an impossible dialogue with the spectator. It underlines the absurdity of automation and the normalization of our feelings, but also our confidence in a computer system that does not know what it is calculating.

I Am Here

Dorin Cucicov (MD)

I Am Here is an interactive experience powered by human interaction. An ambiguous digital presence invites you to an exploratory dialogue. How well can you understand the entity and its intentions? Does the movement influence the digital form, or does the form dictate your movements? I Am Here explores the possibilities of outsourcing human personality to digital forms. It attempts to blur the differences between interhuman and human-computer interaction.

Screenshot TV

Stella Markidi (GR), Patricia Cadavid H. (CO)

*Screenshot TV* is an installation that invites visitors to watch a new genre of reality TV. Every few seconds, the TV shows another online screenshot, uploaded to a special website by anonymous people using a screenshot tool, so that the information can be shared by simply sending a URL. The URLs are usually sent privately, but are public and accessible to everyone. However, sometimes users upload screenshots that contain important and sensitive information and forget that the Internet is a virtual space with transparent walls.

Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris

Liusa Wang opened her gallery in January 2014 with the primary aim of promoting young contemporary Chinese artists. Today, she wants to create a dialogue between emerging Chinese artists and young artists around the world. Meetings with the specialized presses and the growing support of collectors also largely established the recognition of these artists. In addition, working with public institutions contributes to the same objectives. The gallery is sensitive to the narrative poetry of the concepts and open to diverse mediums. The exhibition space is located on Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, in the heart of the Latin Quarter, offering various spatial possibilities.

Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation

Tomomi Adachi (JP), Andreas Dzialocha (DE), Marcello Lussana (IT)

Through machine learning, computers can recognize patterns in a variety of sound documents. But can they also learn to improvise musically? The software “Tomomibot” tries it out by interacting in real time with the sound artist Tomomi Adachi, using deep learning techniques. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) "learns" the artist’s individual style via voice recordings and directly confronts him with the newly generated material. Their joint performance shows how interactive technology and AI can influence a (vocal) style. However, this dialogue also makes clear that the artist will always be more creative and unpredictable than his mechanical counterpart.