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The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab (AI Lab) is a follow-up project to the European Digital Art and Science Network, a creative collaboration between scientific institutions, Ars Electronica and cultural partners throughout Europe that unites science and digital art. The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab follows on from this and addresses visions, expectations and fears that we associate with artificial intelligence. The consortium consists of 13 cultural institutions from Europe with Ars Electronica as coordinator. This online archive provides an overview of all activities carried out during the project's lifetime from 2018 to 2021. It also provides information about the network itself, the residency artists and juries, and the project partners involved. The AI Lab is co-funded by the EU program "Creative Europe (2014-2020)" and by the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.

Abandoned IBM Country Club, Endicott NY by Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne and Hannah Jayanti (US) 2020

Abandoned IBM Country Club, Endicott NY by Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne and Hannah Jayanti (US)

AI Lab Journey
Abandoned IBM Country Club, Endicott NY by Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne and Hannah Jayanti (US)

comissioned for the Ars Electronica Online Festival 2020.
published and streamed during the Festival:
Wed, 09.09.2020, 15:10 – 15:30 Ars Electronica Voyages Channel
Thu, 10.09.2020, 07:40 – 08:00 Ars Electronica Gardens Channel
Fri, 11.09.2020, 11:15 – 11:35 Ars Electronica Selection Channel
afterwards accessible via the Festival Website
• Info (EN): Ars Electronica Journeys is an entirely new format which evolved in the midst of rethinking the festival. Artists, researchers and creative producers were invited to prepare video journeys, providing interactive guided tours without the audience’s physical presence. Beyond that, the journey guides can really invite the viewers into their “world” by not just offering exclusive insight into their fields of expertise and artistic practices, but sharing surroundings relevant to their work – be it their labs, inspiring public places, or their favorite walking routes to mull over ideas. All of the journeys are realized in different frameworks. The European Artificial Intelligence Lab journeys put a spotlight on cutting-edge topics and developments in the realm of artificial intelligence.
• Info (DE): Ars Electronica Journeys ist ein völlig neues Format, das sich inmitten eines Umdenkens des Festival entwickelt hat. KünstlerInnen, ForscherInnen und kreative ProduzentInnen wurden eingeladen, Video-Touren vorzubereiten, die interaktive Führungen ohne physische Anwesenheit des Publikums ermöglichen. Darüber hinaus können die Guides ZuschauerInnen in ihre “Welt” einladen, indem sie nicht nur einen exklusiven Einblick in ihre Fachgebiete und künstlerischen Praktiken bieten, sondern auch die für ihre Arbeit relevante Umgebung vorstellen – seien es ihre Labore, inspirierende öffentliche Orte oder ihre bevorzugten Spazierwege. Alle Reisen werden in unterschiedlichen Rahmen realisiert. Die Reisen des European Artificial Intelligence Lab legen einen Schwerpunkt auf aktuelle Themen und Entwicklungen im Bereich der künstlichen Intelligenz.
Year of creation
2020

Urls
https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/abandoned/

Start:
Sep 09, 2020
End:
Sep 13, 2020

Info:
• Internal Project: AI Lab Online Archiv

Ars Electronica, Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne and Hannah Jayanti (US)

These video commissions are co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union in the framework of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab.
Abandoned IBM Country Club, Endicott NY by Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne and Hannah Jayanti (US)
Artists Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne discuss data, AI, and IBM’s toxic legacies with filmmaker Hannah Jayanti while exploring the abandoned IBM Country Club in Endicott, New York. IBM began its operations in Endicott in 1911, and opened its country club in the 1930s amidst the company’s expanding manufacture of punch card and accounting machines: data technologies that would go on to be used by Hitler’s Third Reich. The country club is preemptive of the modern day “tech campus” with swimming pools, tennis courts and luxurious recreational facilities for employees and their families. The company closed its operations in Endicott decades ago, but left behind a toxic plume of chemicals in the town’s groundwater. Amidst a landscape abandoned by humans but bursting with frogs, mosses and birds, this journey traces dark histories and material realities that haunt the use of AI and data today.
For more details on this site, read In the Shadow of Big Blue, by Ellyn Gaydos, published in Logic Magazine. Access online: https://logicmag.io/nature/in-the-shadow-of-big-blue/

Project Credits / Acknowledgements
These video commissions are co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union in the framework of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab.

Biography
Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s work examine the shifts in behaviors, desires, language and economics catalyzed by computational systems and the internet. In their collaborations they have simulated international organizations, run a real dating service in NYC, and shared the entire Enron email archive with online audiences. Recently works include The New York Apartment commissioned by the Whitney Museum of Art, Get Well Soon commissioned by Chronus Art Center and The Good Life commissioned by Rhizome and Smell Dating. Their work has been widely discussed in the media, in outlets such as Marie Claire, The Ellen Show, Art in America, The World Almanac, Slovenian Public Radio and India Today, and they have given collaborative talks at the Sonar Festival and the New Museum. In 2015, the UN filed a complaint with the US Department of State about their work.