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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

Kersnikova Institute/Kapelica Gallery (Slowenien) - KONSORTIUM

Kersnikova Institute is a non-profit and non-governmental cultural organization that serves as an institutional frame for three progressive venues: Kapelica Gallery, a world renown space for contemporary investigative arts, the hacker space Rampa, where relations between society, science, technology and art are being reconsidered, and the inspirational laboratory BioTehna, which focuses on the artistic research of living systems.

The programme of Kersnikova has been developed as a response to the profound changes in society, thus it is constructed from investigative artistic and learning activities that reflect the multitudes of contemporaneity and announce the possible future scenarios. As a production platform, which encourages, enables and presents artistic production, the Kersnikova Institute is a space for transdisciplinary interactions, in which the authors and their teams can develop the most demanding and bold projects.
Links
https://kersnikova.org/
http://www.kapelica.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
Kersnikova Institute/Kapelica Gallery
Kersnikova Institute / Kapelica Gallery
Kersnikova Institute is an art space and a home base of the Kapelica Gallery and three support laboratories (Rampa, BioTehna, Vivarium) where research, experimentation, development and presentation of artworks take place. Kersnikova is therefore a production platform that commissions artworks and provides laboratory facilities as well as curatorial, production, scientific and technical support to artists and researchers. By focusing on the phenomena of artificial life where bio-media meets technology and where artists collaborate with experts to investigate the possibilities of a creative cohabitation and perhaps even coevolution of humans, animals, plants, and machines, Kersnikova enables groundbreaking exhibitions and performances that regularly provoke an intense public debate regarding the nature-culture dichotomy.

In pursuing the actual and possible cohabitation between living organisms, material resources, and technology, artists often offer uncanny perspectives on the technologies they use in their artworks where technical features are understood as a life of the machinic. That peculiar inner life of machines is more persuasive when involuntary interactions with machines are more frequent, and one could relate to those surprises as to the inner machine will. With the possibilities of employing machine learning algorithms fed from datasets of more or less known data, that feeling of machine behavior began to resemble a process of data metabolism, very much like animation in graphics and puppetry.

Being aware that computers are not thinking machines but rather very capable computations, we became more and more interested in metaphors of machine life and its interaction with biological life in various living systems. The emergence of uncanny behaviors made by different powerful machine learning algorithms is poetically producing meaningful interpretations that can be understood as a possible cohabitation between bio-media and silicate-based technologies. In this respect the most interesting artworks that Kapelica Gallery has been commissioning are those where artists are trying to bring together machine learning and humans, and are thus not merely reinforced iterations of what humans know already. Rather, the desired artworks are those that create situations where human logic embedded in the code of artificial intelligence is challenged with non-calculative impulses from model organisms that are part of the artworks. This way, the interactions between biological life and algorithms fed with biological ‘nonsense’ start to reflect the missed encounters. Those glitches open new possible ways of understanding the liveness of both machines and bio-media. And humans are not excluded here.

www.kersnikova.org

The program presented by Kersnikova Institute within the framework of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab was co-funded by: EU – Creative Europe, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture

(The Practice of Art and AI, p.186)