The Kitty AI
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomIt is year 2039. An artificial intelligence with the affective capacities of a kitten becomes the first non-human governor. She leads a politician-free zone with a network of Artificial Intelligences. She lives in mobile devices of the citizens and can love up to 3 Million people. Excerpt from “The Kitty AI”: “I was only 8 […]
#Love Apparatus
Highcross Shopping Centre 5 Shires Lane, Leicester, United KingdomLocated at the Eastgate Entrance, Highcross Shopping Centre @apparatus_love Can apparatus love? We don’t know for sure, but surely they can say things about love! “#LoveApparatus” (@apparatus_love) is an art installation created for the ART-AI FESTIVAL, taking place Leicester between 30 April and 13 May 2018. #LoveApparatus delivers generative love text aphorisms that will be projected […]
AI in Recent Art Practice
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomThis talk will give an overview of how artists and creative technologists are using and thinking about artificial intelligence. Over the past couple of years, there has been increasing interest in applying the latest advances in machine learning to creative projects in art, music, film, theatre and beyond. From Google's DeepDream and style transfer to the world's first […]
#Love Apparatus Talk
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomCan apparatus love? We don’t know for sure, but surely they can say things about love!This artist talk will reflect on the development of the installation located in Highcross Shopping Centre (Eastgate Entrance) between 30 April and 13 May. “#LoveApparatus” (@apparatus_love) has been specially created for the ART-AI FESTIVAL and is intended to deliver generative […]
Alpha Go
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomDir: Greg Kohs UK 2017, 1hr 30mins With more board configurations than there are atoms in the universe, the ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. On March 9, 2016, the worlds of Go and artificial intelligence collided in South Korea for an extraordinary best-of-five-game competition, coined […]
Curating the Machine
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomDuring 2017, as part of his fellowship at Near Now at Broadway, artist and Curator Antonio Roberts conducted research into the affect AI and automation is having on the role of Curation in the arts. In this presentation Antonio will present his research, which asks questions about the specific roles of Curators and whether an […]
Ghost in the Shell
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomDir: Mamoru OshiiJapan/UK 1995, 1hr 22mins In the not too distant future, Tokyo's Section Nine security force hunts for a hacker known only as the Puppet Master. Leading the investigation is cyborg agent Major Motoko Kusanagi, far more powerful than her human appearance would suggest. And yet as the Puppet Master leaves a trail of […]
War Games
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomDir: John Badham USA 1983, 1h 24mins In this 80’s classic a young computer whiz kid accidentally finds a back-door into a top-secret super-computer, which has complete control over the U.S.A’s nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia and he innocently plays along - unknowingly starting the countdown to World War […]
Robot Maze
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomIn this free family workshop we’ll be building miniature mazes that can be explored by scurrying, wriggly robots called Hex Bugs to discover the basics of robot behaviour. These micro insects can use their self-righting mechanisms to move between obstacles, and even flip over! You can design and make your maze, adding bridges and tunnels, and […]
Ghost in the Shell
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomDir: Mamoru Oshii Japan/UK 1995, 1hr 22mins In the not too distant future, Tokyo's Section Nine security force hunts for a hacker known only as the Puppet Master. Leading the investigation is cyborg agent Major Motoko Kusanagi, far more powerful than her human appearance would suggest. And yet as the Puppet Master leaves a trail […]