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 2020

Hearing/Recording/Wandering by slow immediate

AI Lab Journey
Hearing/Recording/Wandering by slow immediate

comissioned for the Ars Electronica Online Festival 2020.
published and streamed during the Festival:
Sat, 12.09.2020, 16:00 – 16:20 Ars Electronica Voyages Channel
Sun, 13.09.2020, 12:40 – 12:59 Ars Electronica Selection Channel
afterwards accessible via the Festival Website

Links

https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/hearing-recording-wandering/

Start:

Sep 09, 2020

End:

Sep 13, 2020

Info:

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.

Cross reference

Ars Electronica, slow immediate

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

Description

Our work has always been a search for planetary connection. Quarantine shifted the dynamics of the search. Our project with AILAB, the Wandering Mind, is a sound experience that guides the dreams of a sleeping audience, its source material drawn from planetary-scale sensing and organized by an AI system. From home confinement, we mined the internet for field recordings, tuned radios, and climbed to our Brooklyn rooftop to point antennas at passing satellites. Our isolation crystalized for us how much deeper our search can run, how vivid and connective dreams can be.

Biography

slow immediate is the creative studio of artists and electrical/mechanical engineers Gershon Dublon and Xin Liu. To them, immediacy to the self and environment is pivotally important to being human on this shared planet. slow immediate is a member of the New Museum’s NEW INC and ONX Studio, and recipient of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab residency. Their recent VR film, Living Distance, explores an individual’s place in the cosmos, and is a 2020 official selection of Sundance.

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.