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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.

Residency Stay 2019

Artist Residency at Muntref Centro de Arte y Ciencia & Laboratorio de Neurociencia de la Universidad Torquato Ditella 2019 - slow immediate (CN/US)

The project of the artist duo “Slow Immediate” is now being realized through residencies at the Muntref Centro de Arte y Ciencia, the Laboratorio de Neurociencia de la Universidad Torquato Ditella in Buenos Aires, and the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz. The result will then be presented at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz in September 2020 and at the Muntref Centro de Arte y Ciencia in Buenos Aires.
Links
More about slow immediate: https://ars.electronica.art/ailab/en/thewanderingmind/
AE Blog, 18.06.2019: https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2019/06/18/thewanderingmind/

Start:
Jul 01, 2019
End:
Sep 30, 2020

Info:
slow immediate: Yin Liu (CN/US), Gershon Dublon (US): The Wandering Mind
online / Muntref, Buenos Aires (AR) / Ars Electronica Linz (AT)
01.07.2019-30.09.2020
Cross reference
European ARTificial Intelligence Lab, Xin Liu (CN/US), Gershon Dublon (US)
The Wandering Mind by slow immediate (CN/US)
The Wandering Mind is an AI system for dream states. Sampling and recomposing tiny fragments of sound from thousands of global field recordings it finds online, the system generates a winding dream journey for sleeping audiences. When used as a live instrument, the platform presents the performer with an AI-generated mind map of the fragmented sound recordings, which allows them to travel fluidly through the material. In its installation and research format, an AI guide autonomously charts a path with its audience in a feedback loop, as the guide seeks to maintain the audience in a continual state of falling asleep and daydreaming.
This residency project was also presented as the AI Lab Journey Hearing, Recording, Wandering at the Ars Electronica Festival 2020.

Presented at Ars Electronica & Onassis Stegi

Credits:
The Wandering Mind was produced with support from MAXmachina, Nicholas Gillian, and Nan Zhao / Nayo. Research and development on the AI platform is underway at DVIC, Paris, with the support of Pôle Léonard de Vinci, Muntref Centro de Arte y Ciencia, Buenos Aires, and Laboratorio de Neurociencia de la Universidad Torquato Ditella, Buenos Aires.


(The Practice of Art and AI, p. 84)
Biographies artists
Xin Liu (CN) (b. 1991, Xinjiang/China) is an artist and engineer whose practice includes performances, art objects, scientific experiments and academic works. She considers science as a language and technology a means to explore emotions, beliefs, and subjective experiences. Liu is arts curator of the Space Exploration Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. She has won numerous residencies and awards and has presented at the Sundance Film Festival, the Walker Art Center, the OCAT Shanghai, and the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.

Gershon Dublon (US) (b. 1986, New York) is a researcher, artist, and engineer creating environments, installations, systems, and studies for aesthetic and transformative sensory experience. His work has been exhibited at the Boston MFA and shown at Montreal’s RIDM and at Ars Electronica. His writing appears in journals such as Presence and Scientific American.

In 2018, Xin Liu and Gershon Dublon founded slow immediate, a creative practice and engineering studio, currently housed in the New Museum’s NEW INC program.