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SYNOPSISArnold Schwarzenegger goes from brutally terrifying villain to hilarious hero as a virtually indestructible cyborg on a mission in this immense double bill. In a post-apocalyptic future, sentient AI system Skynet has wiped out most of humanity. Under threat from the human resistance, Skynet’s deadly Terminator cyborgs travel back in time to destroy leader John Connor – and his mother Sarah – before they can pose a threat. Arnie told you he'd be back...
Tickets just £10 and includes both films!
Dir: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
USA 1984/1991, 246mins, Cert. 15
Tag: art-ai 2019
Flim Screening : Phoenix VR – Rose Coloured
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 arisen during the day or previously. These can also be submitted ahead of time via @ArtAIFestival or Instagram ArtAIFestLeics and using hashtag #ARTAI2019 and we'll do our best to feed them into the discussion process.
Talk : Love Apparatus
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 on postings to the twitter account “@apparatus_love”.
The public were able to interact with the apparatus by tweeting using the hashtag “#LoveApparatus”. The work itself, analyses the public contributions using an algorithm to identify its level of ‘loveliness’, and the ones with a high score are fed into the network to generate future love quotes.
Fabrizio will be discussing the process of combining scrapping techniques, neural networks – using machine learning, an artificial intelligence technique – and his use of a social network account.
Talk : Making a Chatbot
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 but instead emerge within a system. Through this lens we will reassess the phenomena of ‘Britishness’, particularly by bringing machine learning algorithms into play. In relation to this, I will discuss my recent Sky Arts Art 50 commission, Britbot and think more widely about how dominant narratives (such as those around British culture and history) may be diffracted into strange new forms.
www.britbot.org is a net-based chatbot which uses both rule based and generative models to explore the concept of ‘Britishness’ at this critical moment in history. Trained initially on the UK government’s citizenship test and corresponding textbook Life in the United Kingdom 2017, as people talk to Britbot it gradually learns from what they say becoming a wider reflection of ‘Britishness’ today.
As part of the ART AI Festival 2019 artwork trail, Libby Heaney's Britbot is on display at Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG - see downloadable map here. As part of the ART AI Festival 2019 artwork trail, Libby Heaney's Britbot is on display at Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG - download map.
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