AI&ART Ecosystem

An on-going timeline-based art & research project on evolution of the Science, Technology and Society world system. Retrospective of the development of artificial intelligence and Luxembourg society will be especially interesting. A timeline of a Smart Wearable development will also be presented. More information at: https://aifa.uni.lu/ WELCOME!

WEBSITE: https://esch2022.uni.lu/events/aifa21-ai-and-the-future-of-arts/ AIFA21 is an open event for a large audience. As part of the overall AI Pavilion project (for Esch2022), numerous experts from the field of AI and the arts will explore the increasing interactions between the two fields and address a wide range of topics. AIFA21 is a multidisciplinary event that aims to discuss and explore future developments, opportunities and risks of AI, for example: What is the role of AI as a tool for creating art in the visual and performing arts? What kind of AI technology is used and how is it used? How does AI as technology become a material component of a work of art? How do AI utopias and dystopias influence contemporary art production? What role does AI play in the development of contemporary art? Is AI a stronger vector of artistic interdisciplinarity? How can artists inspire or trigger scientific and technological innovation in AI?

o BNAIC 2021  AI&Art track of the conference: annual international science conference, included scientific lectures and exhibitions as well as an industry day. One of several conference focal points were the theme "AI and Art".  ESCH2022 AI&Art Pavilion exhibition (preview)  “The Future of Artistic Research” panel with • Robert Frankle • Kristoffer Gansing • Iris van der Tuin • Maibritt Borgen • Deniz Kurt • Thibaud Latour • Thorsten Kreissig (TeeKay

Remix workshop organized by Battle Royale, presentations from D. Karpati, Ch. Schommer, and Th. Latour) + Exhibition of students/artists’ works by (organized Sana Nouzri, Thibaud Latour and Daniel Karpatti) + AI Track "AI and Arts", with keynote speaches Manuela Naveau and Iris van der Tuin • https://esch2022.lu/en/remix-festival/the-ai-and-art-pavillon/ • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6HJL9qP458&t=10s&ab_channel=Esch2022

WORKING TOGETHER WITH ROBOTS HOW DO YOU DO THAT? As an artist specialising in conceptual art, Egberdien van der Peijl collaborates with scientists from the Computer Science department here at the University of Luxembourg. In the joint interdisciplinary research, they work on concepts that can be applied in both art and science. Egberdien is also a performer and from the practice of group performance, she translates the experience and the experiment into knowledge that can be applied in research. For example, nowadays it is possible to manipulate drones with hand movements and avatars can learn to dance by imitating the movements of humans. But, working together with robots, how do you do that? In this lecture and roundtable discussion, the artist and guest speakers will explain the theoretical aspects of conceptual art and how these can be translated into activities that are widely accessible to both people and robots. Picture: with kind permission of Betania Antico and Nooshin Shojaee: Avatar Dancer pro

Conference “Singularity42! When Artificial Becomes Our New Nature” at the Casino-Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain in the framework of the “Am I AI” conference cycle (details here: https://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/fr/Agenda/Singularity42-When-Artificial-becomes-our-new-nature)

Please contact us for a dedicated workshop about our exciting AI&Art projects!

Please contact us for a dedicated guide tour with explanations and experiencing our exciting AI&Art projects!

Participants will explore numerous AI&ART projects implemented both by students who provided the technological part and competencies to support implementation of artworks and artists who are the source and the driver of the creative part. They will discuss the AI based technologies used for their artwork, the importance of creativity, the role of AI as a tool for the visual and performing arts, the use of AI technology itself, future developments, challenges and new opportunities for AI and Art.

The idea that a mirror reflects reality is so deeply established that most people interpret what is displayed as a reflection of reality, which has an impact on one's self-perception and vision of the world. With the help of the Art installation, the artist hopes to test the public's fundamental assumption that reflections never lie to us. In this project, the screen serves as a magical mirror, displaying the visitor's reflection before being snatched away and changed by Artificial Intelligence through. The workshop will comprise the following parts: DeepFake Neural Style Transfer AI brings paintings to life The goal of the workshop “Mirror, Mirror” is to bring awareness about the development of Deepfake technology to the general public. We hope to spark a debate about the role of the new technology in people's daily lives by showing how, using a properly trained model, a program can take an image of a person and convert it into a Deepfake video in only a few seconds.

In the context of the AI & Art project of the University of Luxembourg and Esch2022, we created a music video for Initiation, a song composed and produced by the ThalamusProject. For the video, the creators used artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to create a cinematic vision of the song’s lyrics from within the “mind’s eye” of an AI. To create this, the authors trained a machine learning model on thousands of images collected online which depict the conceptual meanings of the song’s lyrics. In the workshop, we will talk about the initial idea of the project, the motivation behind, the challenges during the process of extracting keywords to collect appropriate images, artistic choices, the technical implementation as well as the process of the final edit. We will demonstrate intermediary results of the machine learning process and the visitors will of course be able to see the result. Note: a translation in German will be available

Dancing is an instinct of humans, most of the time it comes through the inspiration of music, although this is not always the only trigger to create a dance. Since AI has been developed in all aspects of human life, generating dance by AI techniques can end in impressive results. Meet student workshop ->Participants are invited to discover the DYING AVATAR dance and the way it evolved, the choices of implementations we had and the challenges we faced. Participants will learn from the technical point of view, in particular how the generative adversarial network is trained to generate dance sequences from an input music. Meet artist workshop -> Participants are invited to discuss with the artist the video demonstrations of the project and analyse the dance generated by AI from a choreographic point of view. Participants will learn from the artistic point of view, in particular see if the dance can be a means of interaction between humans and machines.

We are proud to announce this big art exhibition opening and demos of some of the projects collaboratively created in our Artificial Intelligence and Art Pavilion at CCH. In one hand, the well-known internationally Spanish artist Sergio Albiac is going to exhibit, for the first time in Luxembourg, his project entitled Imaginary Landscapes. This interactive live portrait art installation uses generative code and deep neural networks to move us into a symbiotic relationship between others and the environment. He questions algorithms use not only as a source of optimization of time, money, or resources, but as a critical thinking tool. In a seemingly contradictory fusion of ourselves with AI-generated plants emerging from our minds, Imaginary Landscapes is a portrait series that combines human hand coded generative algorithms with the speculative power of artificial intelligence. Booking via email at aiandart@uni.lu

We invite interested people/students to participate in “Meet Artist/Student” workshop. Meet Student workshop --> We will explain the technical part of our model, the techniques used, the model training, and show the results of our model, the recreated painting. Meet artist workshop --> We will show a transparent and respectless view on art creation with lots of background details in the light of Artificial Intelligence. Booking via email at aiandart@uni.lu

The Kunstuniverstität Linz, department of Interface Cultures, in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science, FSTM, presents six artworks. Exhibition opening ceremony with drinks: Wednesday 29 June at 6pm Workshop “Road to Creation”: Discussion with the Artists and Poster Presentation on Thursday 30 June from 10am to 12pm The exhibition can be visited Monday through Fridays from 10am to 12pm and from 2 pm to 6pm until 22 July.

AIFA 2022 is an international event exploring the growing interactions existing between Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Art. AIFA 2022 has an interdisciplinary profile and will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum and events for researchers, engineers, artists and students alike to share their state-of-the-art research and developmental work in the broad areas of AI and Art. AIFA2022 is composed by different activities: an international conference, VR ART exhibition, VR Timeline exhibition and a Smart Wearable summit and exhibition. More information at: https://aifa.uni.lu/ Submit via email at aifa22@uni.lu WELCOME TO AIFA 2022!

Mixed artistic and scientific concepts related to the AI&ART will be presented in the VR space. The opening of the exhibition will taken place in 28th November and will be accompanied by guide tour with the artists. Interesting debates and a round table will be organized as well. An hybrid exhibition will be shown in the AI&Art pavilion space (CCH) and in VR as well. Both, project-state ideas and finished artworks proposals are accepted and welcome. A catalogue will be published. More information at: https://aifa.uni.lu/ Submit via email at aifa22@uni.lu WELCOME!

Professor of Fine Art and Designer Yolanda Spinola-Elias will present a collection of intelligent designs garments. It will be pointing out the future of relation between fashion, artificial intelligence and society. Under the concept of Ecologies of Art, the SW is intended to join the theoretical concepts discussed in the conference and, thus, represent its experimental part where to link Art, Science, Technology and Society. The creation is developed with the collaboration of other professors, students and technical support. More information at: https://aifa.uni.lu/ WELCOME!

I have a dream, the famous quote from a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. (1963), still refers to the hope for a better future. After two years of the pandemic, during which it was impossible for artists to exhibit and travel, the world has changed. Because of the lock-downs, digital art has gained great public exposure. In fact, AI is more and more used to develop artworks. For example, paintings and music can be generated by machine learning algorithms. As AI and Art represents only a small area within global contemporary art, we want to use IHAD 2022 conference to build a bridge between European and non-Western art. This is a challenge because globally art is usually developed from Western perspective, - so we need to look for an intercultural dialogue that enriches our knowledge and broaden the field of AI and Art and make it accessible to universal creativity. IHAD 2022 is proposed to contribute to a discussion of the social integration of all types of artworks in AI. This year the focus is African Art.

During our event, starting at noon on Friday the 16th, artists Robert Frankle and Manolis Manarakis will guide the visitor through their art installation, Narcissus, first exhibited in our AI&Art Pavilion. Installed in a separate room within the Pavilion, visitors will have the chance to get immersed in the artwork alone and in peace. Betania Antico, an Argentinian-born professional dancer in symbiosis with herself appearing in the Holobox, will give performances during the afternoon (periodically), where she explores through dance the counterpoint of the digital and physical world. Artist Thorsten Kreissig, aka Teekay, a team of Computer Scientists and two Pepper robots will demonstrate and explain their collaborative project »Out of the Loop » reflecting on the anthropomorphic vision of the future of Artificial Intelligence, where robots evolve to have humanlike conversations with each other. Drinks and small canapes will be provided.