ARS ELECTRONICA ARCHIVE – AI LAB

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.

Exhibitions/Journeys 2021

How To Strand Astronauts on the Moon by Halsey Burgund (US), Francesca Panetta (UK)

AI Lab Journey
comissioned for the Ars Electronica Online Festival 2021.
published and streamed during the Festival, afterwards accessible via the Festival Website

Links

https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/en/astronauts-on-the-moon/

Start:

Sep 08, 2021

End:

Sep 12, 2021

Info:

In addition to scientific, technological and economic aspects, the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab focuses strongly on legal, cultural, educational and ethical dimensions of Artificial Intelligence. This allows a holistic model that considers human values and elementary questions of what AI should or should not do, as well as how AI systems are developed, deployed, used and monitored, and by whom. From the perspective of 13 major cultural operators in Europe and led by Ars Electronica, the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab centers visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence.
While industries are pumping massive amounts of money into cutting-edge technologies to develop intelligent systems, we are connecting artists with research institutions and scientists to fill a gap in dealing with the social components and political questions arising from these enormous technological advances.

Cross reference

Ars Electronica, Halsey Burgund (US), Francesca Panetta (UK)

Credits

These video commissions are presented in the framework of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.

Description

The narrative of In Event of Moon Disaster is a journey; a journey filled with the technical and emotional triumphs of individuals and a nation that ultimately comes to a tragic end on the lunar surface. Using an analogous voyage through highs and lows, we plan to use our personal journey of creating In Event of Moon Disaster to dive into the dual nature of AI-enhanced synthetic media: on the one hand, an incredibly powerful creative and educational tool and, on the other hand, potentially the most effective purveyor of disinformation society has ever seen. We will tap into both the technologists who helped us create our deepfake as well as experts in AI, law and disinformation to contextualize and broaden the view. We hope to experiment with using synthetic media techniques to enhance the video to engage our audience and directly demonstrate some of the power of these new technologies.

Biographies

Francesca Panetta is an immersive artist and journalist using emerging technologies to innovate new forms of storytelling that have social impact. She led immersive innovation at The Guardian for 10 years, including running their in-house VR production studio.

Halsey Burgund is an artist and technologist focused on the combination of modern technologies—from mobile phones to artificial intelligence—with fundamentally human “technologies”, primarily language, music and the spoken voice.