AI & A.Life, Interviews, Scout & Trends
TERRA0, enabling the forest to become an autonomous economic agent
“If we continue to restrict ourselves to viewing nature as a domain, as a work tool or material, rather than as a partner, everything is…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
EMANUEL GOLLOB, doing nothing with artificial intelligence
Emanuel Gollob is an Austrian artist who uses artificial intelligence to make his audience “do nothing”. The idea behind the project is the sensation that…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, News
Insight: VOIDOPOLIS, a digital performance in 40-ish posts
The past decades have seen an extraordinarily intense experimentation period by incorporating new media into the performing arts. Adapting to worldwide lockdown restrictions, artists have…
Exhibition: ‘AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence’ at Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing
Through video installations, three-dimensional animations, mirror tiles, multimedia interactive installations, electronic games and other forms, AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence focuses on “social intelligence” and…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Phreaking Hotline: Aliza Shvarts’ by Charlotte Kent
Phreaking started in the 1950s and was slang for exploring and messing with the telecommunication system. Some curious users dialed around, learning how the phone…
AI & A.Life, Biomedia, Interviews
THIJS BIERSTEKER, integrating science with immersive art experiences that scrutinise human behaviour
Merging science and art to analyse our society’s complex interrelation with nature, ecoartist Thijs Biersteker presents Econtinuum (2020), a sensory installation which allows us to…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘AI Am I? Yeah, We Are. Alexander Reben and the Machine’ by Charlotte Kent
“The creativity of culture has no outcome, no conclusion. It does not result in art works, artifacts, products. Creativity is a continuity that engenders itself…
AI & A.Life, Digital Culture, News
Exhibition: ‘Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI’ at the de Young Museum, San Francisco
Founded in 1895 in San Francisco the de Young museum has been an integral part of the cultural fabric of the city over 100 years. Until …
Video premiere: ‘A Thousand Steps’ by Lorem & De Santis Shabara
Lorem is the music-driven multidisciplinary project by Italian musician and visual artist Francesco D’Abbraccio. Working with neural networks and artificial intelligence systems, he produces sounds,…
Event: Futurological Congress at TRANSART festival in Bolzano, Italy
Bolzano is a city in northern Italy and is one of the urban centers within the Alps. Bolzano is the starting point of TRANSART, a…
Exhibition: ‘Ai-Da Robot: Do Robots Dream of Electric Bees?’ at Annka Kultys Gallery
Ai-Da, named after Ada Lovelace, is an artificial intelligence robot who makes drawings, painting, and sculptures. She is a humanoid with human facial features and…
Exhibition: Trevor Panglen at PACE Gallery London
PACE Gallery London is re-opening their physical space on 10th September with an exhibition exploring artificial intelligence, the politics of images, facial recognition technologies, and…
Exhibition: ‘Real Feelings: Technology and Emotion’ at HeK in Basel
When in January we met Ariane Koek at a café in London we could not imagine what the future had in store for us when…
Online exhibition: ‘Bill Posters: Dissimulation’ at Annka Kultys Gallery
[The art happens here] is an online platform dedicated to the showcasing of digital art in its natural habitat launched by Annka Kultys, a gallery…
‘Designing organs at the Transpecies Society: Hybrid Practices between Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence’ by Tatiana Afanador & Judit Pares
The design of cybernetic organs does not have many current references from which to seek inspiration. However, we think that Transpecies Society members are tinkering…
Launch: Serpentine’s ‘Art Ecosystems’ report and Creative AI Lab
The Serpentine is launching two ambitious creative initiatives tomorrow, the Future Art Ecosystems and the Creative AI Lab, emerging as part of the commitment to…
NICOLAS GUICHARD & BÉATRICE LARTIGUE, birdsong in an empty room
Nicolas Guichard and Béatrice Lartigue center their practise around playful, interactive works, highlighting immersive and thought-provoking instantiations of contemporary technologies. A swing that propels you…
SOFIA CRESPO, reimagining nature through the existing
A few many decades ago, Tristan Tzara argued that to make a Dadaist poem, one only needs to take a newspaper, a pair of scissors,…
AI & A.Life, Digital Culture, News
Virtual Talk: Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford at PACE online
PACE Gallery has launched an online series that presents one-on-one conversations between artists, curators, writers, and leading thinkers of today, broadcast weekly on their Instagram…
AI & A.Life, Digital Culture, News
Online exhibition: ‘We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces’ at CAC
Due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak social and economic routines have been interrupted, including cultural programming. In response to this current uncertainty and a time…