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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 2021

Artist Residency at SETI Institute (US) - Interspecifics (INT)

Interspecifics (INT), an independent artistic research studio founded in Mexico City wins European ARTificial Intelligence Lab residencies with the project “Codex Virtualis” at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA and at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz, Austria.

Links

Press: https://ars.electronica.art/press/en/2021/04/15/seti-x-ai-residency/
AE Blog, 12.10.2020, In search of the evolution of intelligence in the universe: https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2020/10/12/setixai/

Start:

Feb 01, 2021

End:

Sep 30, 2021

Info:

Interspecifics (INT): Codex Virtualis
online / SETI Institute, Mountain View (US) / Ars Electronica, Linz (AT)
01.02.2021 - 30.09.2021

Cross reference

European ARTificial Intelligence Lab, Interspecifics (INT)

Biographies artists

Interspecifics (INT) is an independent artistic research studio founded in Mexico City in 2013. Using sound and AI, they explore patterns from nature as an all-encompassing form of communication. They also develop research and educational tools, which they call “Ontological Machines.” A Latin American context strongly influences their work, where creative action emerges out of necessity, and ancient technologies meet cutting-edge forms of production. Interspecifics is a team of six: Leslie García, Paloma López Ramírez, Emmanuel Anguiano Hernández, Felipe Rebolledo Carvajal, Carels Tardío Pi and Maro Pebo. “Our work is deeply shaped by the Latin American context where precarity enables creative action and ancient technologies meet cutting-edge forms of production,” they said. “Our current lines of research are shifting towards exploring the hard problem of consciousness and the close relationship between mind and matter, where magic appears to be fundamental. Sound remains our interface to the universe”.

Codex Virtualis

Codex Virtualis is an artistic research framework oriented towards the generation of an evolving taxonomic collection of hybrid bacterial−AI organisms. With a subtle echo to the endosymbiotic theory, we propose a symbolic formulation of a style transfer machine learning environment as a host, in which to merge bacterial/archaea time−lapse microscopy footage along with multidimensional cellular automata, computational models, as endosymbionts, all under the orchestration of an autonomous generative non-adversarial network architecture. We aim, as a result, to encounter novel algorithmically−driven aesthetic representations, tagged with a unique morphotype and genotype−like encoding, and articulated around a speculative narrative encompassing unconventional origins of life on earth and elsewhere.

(The Practice of Art and AI, p. 72)