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.

Partner 2021

Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation (Spanien) - KONSORTIUM

Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation is a private non-profit foundation born in 2004. Its institution goals include the dissemination, at all levels in the city of Zaragoza, of the progress made by the Knowledge Society to construct a more participative, equalitarian, inclusive, and innovative society; open to the new development expectations offered by the intersection of art, science and technology. The Foundation headquarters have been located, since 2013, in Etopia Centre for Art and Technology, a municipal space of the city of Zaragoza, intended for learning, sharing and enjoying the capacities of creative technologies, citizen science, digital culture, and as a centre for multi-disciplinary production. The Foundation places special emphasis on scientific dissemination among younger people, on the fight to overcome the digital gaps for citizens with a greater risk of social exclusion, and on favouring the incorporation of women into the scientific-technological field.

Links

https://www.fundacionzcc.org/

Start:

Nov 01, 2018

End:

Dec 31, 2021

Info:

European ARTificial Intelligence Lab KONSORTIUM Partners:
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.

Cross reference

Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation

The Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation is a private foundation set as a non-profit organization founded in 2004 and working as part of the Etopia Center for Art & Technology. Its main aims are to highlight technological advances and contribute to building a more knowledgeable society, bringing scientific culture to citizens, and help socially disadvantaged groups with technology integration. Its founding objectives include the dissemination of scientific and technological progress to build a more participative, inclusive, equalitarian and innovative society. Contribute to create a critical and more informed population, openminded to the new developments at the crossroads of art, science and technology.

The Foundation headquarters are located, since 2013, at Etopia Center for Art and Technology.
A public space run jointly with Zaragoza’s City Council, with more than 16.000 square meters dedicated to learning, sharing, and enjoying the capacities of creative technologies. Etopia is one of the Spanish leading venues showcasing creative technologies, innovation, and digital culture but also a place of multi-disciplinary production. It has on its DNA to help citizens to face up the challenges of the digital age by working with artists and a wide range of scientists to promote a better understanding of technologies and its challenges. The building is located next to the train station and the Expo 2008 business and leisure park. It is part of the “new Zaragoza” sitting between two of the most vibrant and multicultural neighborhoods in Zaragoza, Delicias and Almozara. Etopia is on a crossroads, linking the main ring roads, offering excellent visibility for its digital façade. Likewise, the building has several exhibition spaces, three of them of more than 400 sqm. It also has an auditorium, labs, co-working spaces, workshop rooms, a cafeteria, and a 30 rooms of residency space.

As a content provider and programmer for Etopia, the educational program of the foundation is prestigious and considered a referent on education and innovation, especially popular are our summer programs aiming a younger audience. Our Etopia Kids summer camp has seen, over the years thousands, of children enjoying and learning about art sciences and technology, using the latest’s technologies. Furthermore, the foundation develops projects addressing creativity in the digital space, new forms of artistic expression and perception with new interfaces.

In 2015 the foundation joined the European Digital Art and Science Network and in 2019 the consortium evolved into the European Artificial Intelligence lab. During the last three years we have developed an ambitious program aimed to show the public the impact of AI in everyday live. A major exhibition featuring ten international artists and three associated artistic residencies, have been the focal point of an extend program. Furthermore, we have carried out educational activities, workshops, conferences, talks, performances.

(The Practice of Art and AI, p.144)