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Installation : Interstitial Space 2019

Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United Kingdom

In this new interactive installation for the ART-AI festival, Klingemann has created an open feedback loop between the viewer and a portrait- generating adversarial network (GAN) – a type of AI system where two neural networks are pitted against each other. Through a camera, the system behind the installation observes its own output - as […]

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Installation : Neural Zoo

Haymarket Shopping Centre 1 Kildare Street, Leicester

Neural Zoo is an exploration of the ways creativity works: the combination of known elements into a new, previously unseen element. The creator in this case is the algorithm itself but with a human artist as its muse. Isn’t all art made by humans an execution or reshaping of data absorbed through biological neurons? How […]

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Installation : Neural Zoo

Highcross Shopping Centre 5 Shires Lane, Leicester, United Kingdom

Neural Zoo is an exploration of the ways creativity works: the combination of known elements into a new, previously unseen element. The creator in this case is the algorithm itself but with a human artist as its muse. Isn’t all art made by humans an execution or reshaping of data absorbed through biological neurons? How […]

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Installation : Working with Useless Machines

Haymarket Theatre 1 Garrick Walk, Leicester, United Kingdom

Nadine Lessio's Working with Useless Machines is a video artwork.  The work documents a critical design project exploring some speculative and humorous thoughts around what happens when smart devices go against their intended functionality. Focusing specifically on developing routines for the Alexa and Google Home, the project considered personal assistants that have emotions, internal motivations […]

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Installation : Neural Synthesis

Leicester Central Library Bishop Street, Leicester, Leicestershire

Gene Kogan's Neural Synthesis is a video artwork that explores and expands upon the technique popularly known as ‘deep dream’. This is an iterative process for optimising the pixels of an image to obtain a desired activation state in a trained convolutional network. It primarily experiments with the dynamics of feedback-generated ‘deep dream’ videos, where […]

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Installation : Britbot

Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United Kingdom

The Britbot was originally commissioned for Sky Arts as part of their Arts 50 programme. It is an online voice activated chatbot that asks open-ended questions about ‘Britishness’ following topics in the UK citizenship test and corresponding book Life in the United Kingdom. Britbot responds to the answers given by someone interacting with it by […]

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Keynote : Ernest Edmonds – Art and Influence: Learning in Augmented Worlds

Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United Kingdom

Speaker : Ernest Edmonds AI is important in interactive art. The art reaches beyond the computer game paradigm to explore lifelong evolution and the building of relationships. Working in a distributed connected world a new art of evolving and connected systems is emerging. The worlds in which these new art forms exist extends to virtual […]

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Keynote : Mario Klingemann – Interstitial Space 2019

Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United Kingdom

Mario Klingemann is an artist and describes himself as a skeptic with a curious mind. He taught himself programming in the early 1980s and has been creating algorithms that are able to surprise and to show almost autonomous creative behaviour ever since. In this Keynote, he introduces his latest work, Interstitial Space 2019, which creates […]

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Talk : Making a Chatbot

Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United Kingdom

Speaker : Libby Heaney With the rise of nationalism it is important to reassess collective and individual (national) identities and search for new ways of questioning notions of authenticity and origin. In my mind, Karen Barad’s theory of intra-action is useful for this end. Intra-action posits that objects or phenomena do not precede their interaction […]

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Talk : Love Apparatus

Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United Kingdom

Speaker : Fabrizio Poltronieri Can 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 artwork featured as part of last year's ART-AI Festival.  “#LoveApparatus” (@apparatus_love) was installed at the Highcross Shopping Centre and delivered generative love text aphorisms based […]

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