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.

Jury 2020

AI Lab Jury 2020/1

The residency-artist is always selected by an interdisciplinary jury. Jurors coming from the arts evaluate the submissions in an artistic way of thinking, representatives of the Ars Electronica Futurelab judge the submitted ideas in thinking on the possibilities of technical realization and beside that members of the scientific partners are assessing the projects on what is possible within the scientific work carried out at the different scientific facilities.

Jury 2020/1:
Oscar Santillán (EC/NL)
Pedro Russo (NL)
Martin Honzik (AT)
Horst Hörtner (AT)

Start:

Oct 01, 2020

End:

Oct 01, 2020

Info:

Online Jury Meeting

Cross reference

European ARTificial Intelligence Lab

Biographies Jurymembers

Oscar Santillán (EC/NL) is an artist and cybernetician living in The Netherlands and Ecuador. His early career was deeply shaped by working within collective environments, and he continues to collaborate with scientists and other curious minds. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and has been artist-in-residence at Skowhegan (US), Jan van Eyck (NL) Ratti Foundation (IT), Delfina Foundation (UK), and Leiden Astronomical Observatory (NL). His work has been exhibited in the Yokohama Triennial 2020, Japan; MUAC Museum, Mexico; IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Netherlands; NRW Forum Dusseldorf, Germany; FRAC ile-de-france, France; among others. He is one of the igniters setting órbitat—a platform for the encounter of art, science, and technology in Latin America— in motion.

Pedro Russo (NL) is University Professor in Astronomy & Society at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Dr. Russo was the global coordinator for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. He obtained his University degree in applied mathematics, physics and astronomy from the University of Porto, Portugal, was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany and is involved with several international organisations, like the European Astronomical Society, Europlanet, the International Astronautical Federation. His work has received several awards, such as Seeds Special Award 2009, Scientix Best Educational Resource in 2015 and 2016, Most Innovative Educational Activities in 2017 and 2018 by HundrED and 2018 Leiden University’s K.J. Cath Prize. Pedro has worked in several science and art collaborations and is currently working on a collaboration with the Nederlands Dans Theater, NDT2.

Martin Honzik (AT) is an artist and director of Ars Electronica’s Festival, Prix and Exhibitions divisions. He studied visual experimental design at Linz Art University (graduated in 2001) and completed the master’s program in culture & media management at the University of Linz and ICCM Salzburg (graduated in 2003). Besides being independent Artist in several art projects, he joined the staff of the Ars Electronica Future Lab, where, until 2005, his responsibilities included exhibition design, art in architecture, interface design, event design and project management. Since 2006, Martin Honzik has been director of the Ars Electronica Festival and the Prix Ars Electronica and in charge of the exhibitions in the Ars Electronica Center as well as Ars Electronica’s international exhibition projects.

Horst Hörtner (AT) is a media artist and researcher. He is an expert in the design of human-computer interaction and holds several patents in this field. Hörtner was a founding member of the Ars Electronica Futurelab in 1996 and since then he has been the director of this atelier/laboratory. He started work in the field of media art in the 1980s and co-founded the ‘media-art group x-space’ in Graz, Austria, in 1990. Horst Hörtner works at the nexus of art and science and gives lectures and talks at numerous international conferences and universities.