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.

Residency Stay 2020

Artist Residency at Edinburgh Futures Institute 2020 - Anna Ridler (UK), Caroline Sinders (US)

This year, Ars Electronica’s residency and the “Experiential AI” research cluster at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) – part of the University of Edinburgh – was conceived and developed in partnership with the Edinburgh International Festival. With the aim of supporting artists in the research of AI systems. The theme of the residency is Entanglements – fair, moral and transparent AI. In 2020 the residency goes to Anna Ridler and Caroline Sinders for their project “AI isn’t Artificial but Human”.

Links

Press: https://ars.electronica.art/press/en/2020/04/08/ridler-sinders-residency/
AE Blog: https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2020/03/26/ai-is-human/

Start:

Mar 01, 2020

End:

Sep 30, 2021

Info:

Anna Ridler (UK), Caroline Sinders (US): AI isn´t Artificial but Human
online / Edinburgh Future Institute, Edinburgh (UK) / Ars Electronica, Linz (AT)
01.03.2020 - 30.09.2021

Cross reference

European ARTificial Intelligence Lab, Anna Ridler (UK), Caroline Sinders (US)

Biographies artists

Anna Ridler (b. 1985, UK) is an artist and researcher. She has exhibited at institutions such as the V&A Museum, Ars Electronica, HeK Basel, Impakt and the Barbican Centre and has degrees from the Royal College of Art, Oxford University and University of Arts London. She was a 2018 EMAP fellow and was listed by Artnet as one of nine “pioneering artists” exploring AI’s creative potential. She is interested in working with collections of information, particularly self-generated data sets, to create new and unusual narratives in a variety of mediums, and what happens when things cannot fit into discrete categories. She is currently interested in the intersection of machine learning and nature and what we can learn from history.

Caroline Sinders (b. 1987, US) is a machine learning researcher and artist obsessed with language, culture and images. Her work explores the intersections between natural language processing, artificial intelligence, abuse, online harassment, and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Her work has been featured in the Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA Ps1, the Modern Art Museum of Bologna, Ars Electronica, as well as others. She is the founder of Convocation Design + Research an agency focusing on the use of machine learning and design for public good.

AI isn’t Artifical but Human

How can AI help to face climate crisis and other entwined challenges? This machine learning generated moving image piece gives insights into the complexity of data sets and raises questions about deforestation and the politics of climate change, memory, and loss. Anna Ridler and Caroline Sinders created a special dataset of the Bald Cypress on the gulf coast of the USA where both have family ties. These trees, which can live for thousands of years, are currently considered ‘threatened’ by climate change.

Presented at Ars Electronica & Science Gallery Dublin & CPN–Center for the Promotion of Science

(The Practice of Art and AI, p. 70)