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

Spaces Camouflaged by AI by KyungJin Jeong (KR)

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/spaces-camouflaged-ai/

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, KyungJin Jeong (KR)

Description

As a highly developed photographic technology, image distortion can be created via photo-editing software. With enough pictures, machine learning can determine attributes. I will explore the gap between advertising and reality by visiting a common room in a single house in Seoul. The project began with the question, ”Can artificial intelligence (AI) distinguish between advertising and reality?” In this journey, I will explore how the AI interactive web program converts real-life room photos into commercial images and vice versa.

Biography

KyungJin is a designer, artist and researcher with an interest in the social concerns people face in daily life. She believes that artists, designers and researchers can reveal such concerns to the public through their work and offer feasible solutions to them. She is keen on how emerging technologies, such as AI and VR, will influence human society in the future. KyungJin earned a master’s degree with a distinction in information experience design from the Royal College of Art.

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.