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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.
AI Lab Radio
A 4-part radio broadcast of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab (AI LAB) where we will give insight into projects by different female artists whose work focuses on the topic of AI, bias and/or gender. In cooperation with Radio Fro in Linz, Austria. • Info: AI LAB Radio #1 radio show online 10.09.2020 Stephanie Dinkins (US) AI LAB Radio #2 radio show online 24.09.2020 Mimi Ọnụọha (US) AI LAB Radio #3 radio show online 08.10.2020 Karen Palmer (US) AI LAB Radio #4 radio show online 22.10.2020 Birgitte Aga (NO) & Coral Manton (UK)
Year of creation
2020Urls
Radio FRO project page AI Lab Radio: https://www.fro.at/sendungen/ai-lab-radio/
Start:
Sep 10, 2020 End:
Oct 22, 2020 Info:
• Internal Project: AI Lab Online Archiv Ars Electronica, Radio FRO
AI Lab Radio #1: Stephanie Dinkins (US)
In the first AI LAB Radio show we are broadcasting an interview with the transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins.
From the perspective of 13 major cultural operators in Europe (Ars Electronica, Center for Promotion of Science, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, Laboral, Kapelica Gallery, Science Gallery Dublin, Onassis Cultural Center, The Culture Yard / clickfestival, GLUON, Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, SOU Festival, le lieu unique, Waag), the AI LAB centers visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence. Through an extensive activity programme in the form of exhibitions, labs, workshops, conferences, talks, performances, concerts and residencies the project fosters interdisciplinary work, transnational mobility and intercultural exchange.
In our Radio show we will give insight into projects by different female artists whose work focuses on the topic of AI, bias and/or gender.
In the current AI LAB Radio show we are broadcasting interview with Stephanie Dinkins. Dinkins is a transmedia artist and professor at Stony Brook University in United States. She is a photographer, but for the last seven years she is looking at the artificial intelligence. Through the lance of race, ageing and gender, or what she likes to call “our future histories”.
The AI Lab is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
From the perspective of 13 major cultural operators in Europe (Ars Electronica, Center for Promotion of Science, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, Laboral, Kapelica Gallery, Science Gallery Dublin, Onassis Cultural Center, The Culture Yard / clickfestival, GLUON, Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, SOU Festival, le lieu unique, Waag), the AI LAB centers visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence. Through an extensive activity programme in the form of exhibitions, labs, workshops, conferences, talks, performances, concerts and residencies the project fosters interdisciplinary work, transnational mobility and intercultural exchange.
In our Radio show we will give insight into projects by different female artists whose work focuses on the topic of AI, bias and/or gender.
In the current AI LAB Radio show we are broadcasting interview with Stephanie Dinkins. Dinkins is a transmedia artist and professor at Stony Brook University in United States. She is a photographer, but for the last seven years she is looking at the artificial intelligence. Through the lance of race, ageing and gender, or what she likes to call “our future histories”.
The AI Lab is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
AI LAB Radio #2: Mimi Ọnụọha (US)
Mimi Ọnụọhas work highlights the social relationships and power dynamics behind data collection
From the perspective of 13 major cultural operators in Europe (Ars Electronica, Center for Promotion of Science, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, Laboral, Kapelica Gallery, Science Gallery Dublin, Onassis Cultural Center, The Culture Yard / clickfestival, GLUON, Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, SOU Festival, le lieu unique, Waag), the AI LAB centers visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence. Through an extensive activity programme in the form of exhibitions, labs, workshops, conferences, talks, performances, concerts and residencies the project fosters interdisciplinary work, transnational mobility and intercultural exchange.
In our Radio show we will give insight into projects by different female artists whose work focuses on the topic of AI, bias and/or gender.
Mimi Ọnụọha
Mimi Ọnụọha is a Nigerian-American artist and researcher whose work highlights the social relationships and power dynamics behind data collection. Her multimedia practice uses print, code, installation and video to call attention to the ways in which those in the margins are differently abstracted, represented, and missed by sociotechnical systems.
In this show Mimi gives insights into her recent works like “The Future Is Here”, a commission from 2019 which examines the process of dataset creation, or the installation piece “The Library of Missing Data Sets”, which is a physical repository of those things that have been excluded in a society where so much is collected. In an interview on Youtube Mimi says that she is “interested in the stories that are wrapped up within technology” – which stories bias our conception of how artificial intelligence works nowadays? What are the consequences of being forgotten in our modern, digitalized and mapped society? Mimi states that not everything can be represented in data sets – why is that and who actually collects data?
Find more information about Mimi Ọnụọha on her website: https://mimionuoha.com/
The AI Lab is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
From the perspective of 13 major cultural operators in Europe (Ars Electronica, Center for Promotion of Science, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, Laboral, Kapelica Gallery, Science Gallery Dublin, Onassis Cultural Center, The Culture Yard / clickfestival, GLUON, Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, SOU Festival, le lieu unique, Waag), the AI LAB centers visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence. Through an extensive activity programme in the form of exhibitions, labs, workshops, conferences, talks, performances, concerts and residencies the project fosters interdisciplinary work, transnational mobility and intercultural exchange.
In our Radio show we will give insight into projects by different female artists whose work focuses on the topic of AI, bias and/or gender.
Mimi Ọnụọha
Mimi Ọnụọha is a Nigerian-American artist and researcher whose work highlights the social relationships and power dynamics behind data collection. Her multimedia practice uses print, code, installation and video to call attention to the ways in which those in the margins are differently abstracted, represented, and missed by sociotechnical systems.
In this show Mimi gives insights into her recent works like “The Future Is Here”, a commission from 2019 which examines the process of dataset creation, or the installation piece “The Library of Missing Data Sets”, which is a physical repository of those things that have been excluded in a society where so much is collected. In an interview on Youtube Mimi says that she is “interested in the stories that are wrapped up within technology” – which stories bias our conception of how artificial intelligence works nowadays? What are the consequences of being forgotten in our modern, digitalized and mapped society? Mimi states that not everything can be represented in data sets – why is that and who actually collects data?
Find more information about Mimi Ọnụọha on her website: https://mimionuoha.com/
The AI Lab is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
AI LAB Radio #3: Karen Palmer (US)
In the current AI LAB Radio we are broadcasting an interview with the artist and storyteller from the future - Karen Palmer. She was awarded with this year’s STARTS Prize Honorary Mention for her interactive installation Perception iO.
From the perspective of 13 major cultural operators in Europe (Ars Electronica, Center for Promotion of Science, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, Laboral, Kapelica Gallery, Science Gallery Dublin, Onassis Cultural Center, The Culture Yard / clickfestival, GLUON, Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, SOU Festival, le lieu unique, Waag), the AI LAB centers visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence. Through an extensive activity programme in the form of exhibitions, labs, workshops, conferences, talks, performances, concerts and residencies the project fosters interdisciplinary work, transnational mobility and intercultural exchange.
In our Radio show we will give insight into projects by different female artists whose work focuses on the topic of AI, bias and/or gender.
In the current AI LAB Radio show we are broadcasting interview with Karen Palmer, the storyteller from the future, international artist and TED Speaker. Her work is at the intersection of AI, immersive storytelling, neuroscience, behavioural psychology, implicit bias and the parkour philosophy of moving through fear. Palmer was awarded with this year’s STARTS Prize Honorary Mention for Perception iO (Input Output). iO is the future of Law Enforcement. This project is addressing police violence and racism.
The AI Lab is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
From the perspective of 13 major cultural operators in Europe (Ars Electronica, Center for Promotion of Science, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, Laboral, Kapelica Gallery, Science Gallery Dublin, Onassis Cultural Center, The Culture Yard / clickfestival, GLUON, Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, SOU Festival, le lieu unique, Waag), the AI LAB centers visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence. Through an extensive activity programme in the form of exhibitions, labs, workshops, conferences, talks, performances, concerts and residencies the project fosters interdisciplinary work, transnational mobility and intercultural exchange.
In our Radio show we will give insight into projects by different female artists whose work focuses on the topic of AI, bias and/or gender.
In the current AI LAB Radio show we are broadcasting interview with Karen Palmer, the storyteller from the future, international artist and TED Speaker. Her work is at the intersection of AI, immersive storytelling, neuroscience, behavioural psychology, implicit bias and the parkour philosophy of moving through fear. Palmer was awarded with this year’s STARTS Prize Honorary Mention for Perception iO (Input Output). iO is the future of Law Enforcement. This project is addressing police violence and racism.
The AI Lab is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
AI LAB Radio #4: Birgitte Aga (NO) & Coral Manton (UK)
The work of artist-technologist duo Birgitte Aga and Coral Manton aims at (re)claiming conversational AI systems as a medium for protest.
From the perspective of 13 major cultural operators in Europe (Ars Electronica, Center for Promotion of Science, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, Laboral, Kapelica Gallery, Science Gallery Dublin, Onassis Cultural Center, The Culture Yard / clickfestival, GLUON, Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, SOU Festival, le lieu unique, Waag), the AI LAB centers visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence. Through an extensive activity programme in the form of exhibitions, labs, workshops, conferences, talks, performances, concerts and residencies the project fosters interdisciplinary work, transnational mobility and intercultural exchange. In our Radio show we will give insight into projects by different female artists whose work focuses on the topic of AI, bias and/or gender.
Birgitte Aga (NO) & Coral Manton (UK)
The work of artist-technologist duo Birgitte Aga and Coral Manton manifests as collaborative workshops, events and installations aimed at(re)claiming conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems as a medium for protest. It critiques the commercial pursuit of humanising AI technologies and challenges the bias, stereotyping and pervasive influence embedded within. By activating the public, Aga and Manton re-write and re-imagine the cultural myths of AI and robotics, creating alternative technology-mediated futures.
Their most recent work is Women Reclaiming Ai (2019), an expanding activist art-work, presented as a feminist AI voice assistant, programmed through workshops by a growing community of self-identifying women, and The Infinite Guide (2018), a speculative art work and research project, powered by a conversational AI, (LSTM Recurrent Neural Net), trained on a biased and non-diverse data-set.
In this show Coral and Birgitte introduce their most recent works of art and explain why we as humans are biased, not the technology itself. They tell us why humour is an important tool for protest and for demystifying or concepts of artificial intelligence. They give insights in their playful and thoughtful ways for demonstrating the underrepresentation of women in the development process of AI. In the end our talk even leads to a very speculative question: “What does it mean to be human?”
Find more information about Birgitte Aga and Coral Manton on their websites:
https://coralmanton.com/
https://birgitteaga.com/
The AI Lab is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
From the perspective of 13 major cultural operators in Europe (Ars Electronica, Center for Promotion of Science, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, Laboral, Kapelica Gallery, Science Gallery Dublin, Onassis Cultural Center, The Culture Yard / clickfestival, GLUON, Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, SOU Festival, le lieu unique, Waag), the AI LAB centers visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence. Through an extensive activity programme in the form of exhibitions, labs, workshops, conferences, talks, performances, concerts and residencies the project fosters interdisciplinary work, transnational mobility and intercultural exchange. In our Radio show we will give insight into projects by different female artists whose work focuses on the topic of AI, bias and/or gender.
Birgitte Aga (NO) & Coral Manton (UK)
The work of artist-technologist duo Birgitte Aga and Coral Manton manifests as collaborative workshops, events and installations aimed at(re)claiming conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems as a medium for protest. It critiques the commercial pursuit of humanising AI technologies and challenges the bias, stereotyping and pervasive influence embedded within. By activating the public, Aga and Manton re-write and re-imagine the cultural myths of AI and robotics, creating alternative technology-mediated futures.
Their most recent work is Women Reclaiming Ai (2019), an expanding activist art-work, presented as a feminist AI voice assistant, programmed through workshops by a growing community of self-identifying women, and The Infinite Guide (2018), a speculative art work and research project, powered by a conversational AI, (LSTM Recurrent Neural Net), trained on a biased and non-diverse data-set.
In this show Coral and Birgitte introduce their most recent works of art and explain why we as humans are biased, not the technology itself. They tell us why humour is an important tool for protest and for demystifying or concepts of artificial intelligence. They give insights in their playful and thoughtful ways for demonstrating the underrepresentation of women in the development process of AI. In the end our talk even leads to a very speculative question: “What does it mean to be human?”
Find more information about Birgitte Aga and Coral Manton on their websites:
https://coralmanton.com/
https://birgitteaga.com/
The AI Lab is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.