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AI in Recent Art Practice

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

This 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 […]

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#Love Apparatus Talk

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

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 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 […]

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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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Talk : State of the AI-Art

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

Speaker : Luba Elliot This 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 […]

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Keynote : Jake Elwes – Creative Dilemmas

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

Speaker : Jake Elwes The creative possibilities opened up by machine learning and the implications of generating new original content from an algorithm - which has learnt from vast amounts of data using generative neural networks - seem conceptually extraordinary. Early experiments included generating images of electric sheep, clouds in skies, and tricking a censoring […]

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

Panel : State of the AI-Art The panel is chaired by Ernest Edmonds, with discussants from the day's keynotes and talks. As well as picking up on the issues related to the creative processes, curatorial considerations and audience engagement strategies, this is an opportunity for all conference participants to ask burning questions that may have […]

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