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

SOU Festival (Georgien) - KONSORTIUM

Stream of unconsciousness festival challenges established contexts, which define the whole cultural process of today. architecture, individual and collective memory, physical experience, definitions, cultural hierarchy and others has created for us a perception of expectations. every single artist, their work and the context we create for contact questions these expectations and makes our quest more exciting. contemporary music and visual arts, acoustic experiments, sound research, new opera, musical theatre, digital and new media art, dance, interaction with traditional music are of main focus to SOU festival. Besides actual cultural happenings we encourage education and information accessibility through workshops and other educational programs.

Links

http://www.soufestival.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

SOU Festival

SOU Festival / SOC Festival

The Stream of Unconsciousness Festival (SOU) focuses on production and presentation of contemporary music and visual arts, acoustic experiments, sound research, new opera, musical theatre, digital and new media art, dance, interaction with traditional music. It is collaborating closely with renowned Georgian and international artists and researchers on contemporary multidisciplinary projects. Among former participants of the Festival are: Robert Henke, Ryoji Ikeda, Bjork, Carsten Nicolai, Hatsune Miku, Ensemble Modern, among others.
Along with performances, exhibitions and concerts, the festival encourages education and information accessibility through workshops and short courses. The festival challenges established contexts for general perceptions and expectations.
SOU Festival developed within 3 years to the most important happening in digital arts in Georgia and is followed by an extensively growing audience. Stream of unconsciousness festival challenges established contexts, which define the whole cultural process of today. architecture, individual and collective memory, physical experience, definitions, cultural hierarchy and others has created for us a perception of expectations. every single artist, their work and the context we create for contact questions these expectations and makes our quest more exciting. contemporary music and visual arts, acoustic experiments, sound research, new opera, musical theatre, digital and new media art, dance, interaction with traditional music are of main focus to SOU festival. Besides actual cultural happenings we encourage education and information accessibility through workshops and other educational programs.
In 2021 SOU Festival with its history, experiences and traumas is going from an unconscious process to a conscious one, thus SOU became SOC festival. SOC stands for Stream of Consciousness. As the festival’s new name suggests, the future work will be directed to educational and social activities, contributing to combatting inequality, social justice and poverty in Georgia.

(The Practice of Art and AI, p.285)