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

Science Gallery Dublin (Irland) - KONSORTIUM

Science Gallery is an organisation dedicated to igniting creativity and discovery where science and art collide. This cutting-edge public engagement platform uses a transdisciplinary approach that unites the Arts with STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), using these as a lens to examine the burning issues and wicked problems facing society today. Creative collisions happen through 3-4 free exhibitions per year, with complementary events, performances, workshops and educational programmes. Since opening in 2008, over 2.5 million people have engaged with over 40 exhibitions, thousands of events and workshops co-created with more than 2,000 collaborators from diverse disciplines including the arts, science, design, humanities, health, engineering and social science. Recent exhibitions have included HUMANS NEED NOT APPLY which asked the question “In an automated world, will it be time to put humans out to pasture?”; IN CASE OF EMERGENCY which asked “How will it all end, and why do we love to wonder?” and INTIMACY, exploring the meaning of intimacy in today’s world, and asking whether technology is disrupting traditional notions of togetherness, opening new avenues for connection, or killing off closeness altogether?

Links

https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/

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

Science Gallery Dublin

In 2008, a forgotten corner of Trinity College Dublin was transformed into a living experiment that would bridge art and science, unleashing their combined creative potential.

Our mission is to encourage young people to learn through their interests. Since opening, more than three million visitors to the gallery have experienced 45 unique exhibitions, ranging from design and violence to light and love, and from contagion and biomimicry to the futures of the human species and play.

Science Gallery Dublin develops an ever-changing programme of exhibitions and events fueled by the expertise of scientists, researchers, students, artists, designers, inventors, creative thinkers and entrepreneurs. The focus is on providing programmes and experiences that allow visitors to participate and facilitate social connections, always providing an element of surprise.

Technological advances may lead to a more just and inclusive world, but may also serve to increase the divide between those who have and have not. Navigating this complex world requires agile thinkers who can solve problems using imagination, creativity, and empathy — skills which may be developed through educational experiences combining the arts and sciences.

Science Gallery Dublin’s education outreach programmes for young learners are centred around the concept of asking young people to consider what is required to succeed in a world in which exam marks and content knowledge are becoming less important; and skills such as creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and problem solving are key. Our learning programmes encourage active participation through challenges based on relevant and current themes, and we invite participants to reflect critically on how they learn and develop through the experience.

Inspired by the success of the very first Science Gallery on Trinity’s historic campus, the Science Gallery Network has now grown to eight members across four continents: in Dublin, London, Melbourne, Bengaluru, Venice, Detroit, Rotterdam and Atlanta.

Every year, an average of 340,000 visitors engage with us in person nationally through exhibitions, events, workshops and pop-ups; over two million have been to one of the many Science Gallery exhibitions and sites abroad — making Science Gallery Dublin one of the largest non-profit cultural exports of Ireland.

In 2021, Science Gallery Dublin will be taking a year-long approach to a single theme: BIAS. From cognitive function to machine learning, bias is a shortcut, for our brain or for data, and in this season we will interrogate how bias moves from human to machine and how persuasion, preference, motivation and misinformation contribute to our individual, societal and digital biases.
BIAS at Science Gallery Dublin will explore AI, Ethics, Trust and Justice. The programme will focus on two kinds of activity - incubation and activation - through exhibitions, events and education, questioning the social, psychological and technological aspects of bias.

(The Practice of Art and AI, p. 262)