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.
Edinburgh Futures Institute and Bayes Centre (Scotland) – Scientific Partner Institution
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Edinburgh is one of the world’s premier festival cities and a centre for world-leading research in artificial intelligence and machine learning. These two strengths combine to make Edinburgh a fertile ground for a holistic exploration of AI. A new programme, Experiential AI at the Edinburgh Futures Institute and Bayes Centre in Edinburgh, explores how art and creativity can make the operation of an AI system tangible, legible, and accessible to the people whose data are captured and acted upon. It will connect AI research to Edinburgh’s Festivals, and thereby to the civic and cultural life of Edinburgh. Drew Hemment has moved to Edinburgh to help establish the Edinburgh Futures Institute and develop research spanning data, futures and festivals. Artists who use machine learning algorithms or data as their material are invited to apply for an AILab residency in Edinburgh and Linz, call launched summer 2019.
Links
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ Start:
Nov 01, 2018 End:
Dec 31, 2021 Info:
European ARTificial Intelligence Lab, Scientific Partner Institutions: SETI Institute, Leiden Observatory, Muntref Centro de Arte y Ciencia / Laboratorio de Neurociencia de la Universidad Torquato Ditella, Edinburgh Futures Institute and Bayes Centre. Cross reference
Edinburgh Futures Institute and Bayes Centre
Experiential AI @ Edinburgh Futures Institute
Experiential AI is a research group at Edinburgh Futures Institute and Edinburgh College of Art. It aims to support the creation of artistic works using machine learning algorithms and robotics, and to inspire new concepts and paradigms on ethical and responsible AI.
The group develops research on AI futures, science, art and ethics through collaborations with artists, festivals and the AI community. It tests the hypothesis that art and tangible experiences can mediate between computational technologies and human comprehension, in order to overcome the limitations of explainability and accountability in AI systems.
One programme of the group is The New Real, delivered in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute and Edinburgh's Festivals. The New Real creates experiences and supports the development of artists working with machine-learning data and algorithms as material (see fig.1 The Zizi Show by Jake Elwes). The research investigates how the design of digital experiences can surface critical issues and scaffold human understanding of AI systems. A desire to expand artistic uses of AI and explore the interactions between AI and our day-to-day reality is at the core of The New Real.
In our participation in AI LAB, we hosted an artist residency by Anna Ridler and Caroline Sinders. Anna and Caroline responded to the residency theme of Entanglements – Fair, Moral and Transparent AI by proposing an artistic exploration of the hidden human labour involved in creating an AI. The residency took the form of a cooperative research enquiry, in which Anna and Caroline participated in our research, and we supported their development of a new body of artistic work. One output is Machanized Cacophonies, a newly commissioned artwork by Anna and Caroline presented jointly in 2021 by Edinburgh Futures Institute and Edinburgh International Festival. (see fig.2) In Mechanized Cacophonies, Ridler and Sinders present an immersive artwork inspired by their time during lockdown, which explores how interactions with nature are increasingly mediated by technology.
Edinburgh is the world’s foremost festival city, and has been a centre for AI research since the early 1960s. These two strengths combine to create a fertile environment for work on art and AI. Edinburgh Futures Institute is a new institute within University of Edinburgh to pursue knowledge and understanding that supports the navigation of complex futures.
The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, headquartered at the British Library. The AI & Arts Group is a multi-disciplinary expert group based at the Institute. It explores the interplay between AI, data science, the arts, creativity and heritage. Edinburgh International Festival is the world’s leading performing arts festival.
(Text by Drew Hemment)
Experiential AI and The New Real are led by Drew Hemment and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Scottish Funding Council, Creative Scotland, and Edinburgh's Data Driven Innovation programme.
www.newreal.cc
(The Practice of Art and AI, p. 46/47)
The group develops research on AI futures, science, art and ethics through collaborations with artists, festivals and the AI community. It tests the hypothesis that art and tangible experiences can mediate between computational technologies and human comprehension, in order to overcome the limitations of explainability and accountability in AI systems.
One programme of the group is The New Real, delivered in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute and Edinburgh's Festivals. The New Real creates experiences and supports the development of artists working with machine-learning data and algorithms as material (see fig.1 The Zizi Show by Jake Elwes). The research investigates how the design of digital experiences can surface critical issues and scaffold human understanding of AI systems. A desire to expand artistic uses of AI and explore the interactions between AI and our day-to-day reality is at the core of The New Real.
In our participation in AI LAB, we hosted an artist residency by Anna Ridler and Caroline Sinders. Anna and Caroline responded to the residency theme of Entanglements – Fair, Moral and Transparent AI by proposing an artistic exploration of the hidden human labour involved in creating an AI. The residency took the form of a cooperative research enquiry, in which Anna and Caroline participated in our research, and we supported their development of a new body of artistic work. One output is Machanized Cacophonies, a newly commissioned artwork by Anna and Caroline presented jointly in 2021 by Edinburgh Futures Institute and Edinburgh International Festival. (see fig.2) In Mechanized Cacophonies, Ridler and Sinders present an immersive artwork inspired by their time during lockdown, which explores how interactions with nature are increasingly mediated by technology.
Edinburgh is the world’s foremost festival city, and has been a centre for AI research since the early 1960s. These two strengths combine to create a fertile environment for work on art and AI. Edinburgh Futures Institute is a new institute within University of Edinburgh to pursue knowledge and understanding that supports the navigation of complex futures.
The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, headquartered at the British Library. The AI & Arts Group is a multi-disciplinary expert group based at the Institute. It explores the interplay between AI, data science, the arts, creativity and heritage. Edinburgh International Festival is the world’s leading performing arts festival.
(Text by Drew Hemment)
Experiential AI and The New Real are led by Drew Hemment and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Scottish Funding Council, Creative Scotland, and Edinburgh's Data Driven Innovation programme.
www.newreal.cc
(The Practice of Art and AI, p. 46/47)
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