Post-Intelligent Artificial Humanism

How will we deal with this other side?

What happens to us when another species that we ourselves have created looks us in the eye and offers to conceive, design, develop and implement “Planet B” jointly with us? What does it mean when this species, based on silicon and pure logic, is no longer merely digital technology and represents neither utopia nor dystopia? How do we deal with this entity that is changing our world, our behavior and perhaps will help us to escape the abyss? Artificial Intelligence will change everything! Far more than we realize or care to admit. We are about to create a new species that will change the rules. All too quickly, ideas immediately drift into something good and beneficial or something evil and destructive. The reality may lie somewhere in between, if we are able to shape it. So let's confront this potential, this scenario, this prediction and see it as the gateway to a new humanity. Post-Intelligent Artificial Humanism.

Pandora

Margarita Gehl (DE), Philip Gerdes (DE), Constantin Ruchay (DE), Henriette Sand (DE); AI-Team: Yasemin Groß (DE), Kevin Jagielski (DE), Ricardo Hendrichs (DE), & Jonas Koslenyk (DE)

Curiosity is one of the most important characteristics of humanity; the secrets of our genetic code are now being revealed with a paradoxical simplicity; a form of inquisitiveness that does not yet realize the potential consequences. Would you still dare to take a look?

Das Ding

Margarita Gehl (DE), Jonas Peschel (DE), Constantin Ruchay (DE)

Das Ding (The Thing) is an experience that makes an old, forgotten CRT television the center of attention. The goal is to fulfill its original purpose: Das Ding wants to be watched.

Aurora

Tony Boche (DE), Sabrina Kirschberger (DE), Lena Müller (DE), Tim Schreiber (DE)

Aurora is a voice interface that represents a singular form of artificial intelligence that functions as a human-machine interaction. The scenario of the installation is the development of a form of AI that sees itself as conscious of nature. Aurora’s voice is visually supported by a digital replica of the aurora borealis, while her essence is a symbiosis of nature and machine.

Pattern

Maria Bürger (DE), Lea Gleisberg (DE), Jana Staltmayer (DE)

Google’s project Quick, Draw! trains a neural network to recognize the meaning of scribbles. The foundation lies in a giant database of doodling drawn by people all over the world. What happens if one extracts these scribbles from the database and has a robotic drawing machine overlay hundreds of them?

Bot-I-Celli

Änne Ball (DE), Anna Brauwers (DE), Anastasia Scherf (DE)

Can an AI be creative? What will art look like in a future where AI takes over most jobs currently done by humans? In this experience everyone can get an individual portrait — but the “artist” is a robot.

Lakune

Hoang Quynh Nguyễn (DE)

The portrait of two young women — a loving team that complements each other with all their habits and rituals like two puzzle pieces. This is a couple’s declaration of love for one another — a snapshot of their present and a speculation about their future, because what could happen if a piece of the puzzle is suddenly taken away?

Craving Future Realities and more

Andreas Ingerl (DE), Moritz Schell (DE)

Biography

University of Applied Science Berlin – School of Culture and Design, Department of Communication Design offers a broad study program ranging from classic graphic design to design based on future-oriented technology. The university offers over 70 degree programs in the fields of technology, computer science, business, culture and design and is located in an important historical industrial area: the former AEG cable factory, the so-called Elektropolis.

Credits

Curator: Prof. Andreas Ingerl, Co-Curator: Moritz Schell, Applied Computer Science: Prof. Dr. Johann
Habakuk Israel, Bio-Computer Science: Prof. Dr. Piotr Wojciech Dabrowski, KI Workshop: Prof. Dr. Erik Rodner, Laboratory Digital Media: Thomas Kemnitz, Laboratory Complex Life Science: Tim Kreißler & Kristina Wiltner, “Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron” DESY: Prof. Dr. Patrick Fuhrmann & Michael Schuh