«AI+Art Conversations»
05.03.2022 - 17.06.2023, Art Basel, Collegium Helveticum, Berlin Science Week, ETH Zurich,
With the «AI+Art Conversations» I aimed to encourage the dialogue between art and science, by bringing artists and scientists, as well as curators, engineers, critical thinkers and others, together to exchange their ideas, practices and works.
Artistic interest and work in the fields of science and technology, especially Artificial Intelligence, has been ongoing for over a century, since the European Avantgardes Lately, these attempts have generated a lot of attention and turned art into a topic of high interest in science and technology research, as well as development thanks to AI affecting all of human society.The AI+Art Conversations might change not only the mindsets of the conversation partners, but also of the audience. Some art and science collaborations with AI came out of these conversations, which was all the better!
Here a list of all the AI+Art Conversations:
17.06.2023 «Co-Creating with AI: The Artist View», Marguerite Humeau, Suzanne Treister, Roger Wattenhofer, co-curated with Jeni Fulton, Art Basel Conversations
11.06.2024 «AI+Art Conversations», with Rohini Devasher + Omar W. Nasim, Zurich Art Weekend, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich
08.06.2023 «AI+Art Conversations», with Jennifer Wadsworth + Liat Segal, Zurich Art Weekend, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich
04.11.2022 «Art for an ethical AI - A conversation in two worlds», with Nora Al Badri + Marie France Rafael, Berlin Science Week
11.06.2022 «AI+Art Conversations», with Liat Grayver + Inge Herrmann, Aparna Rao + Siyu Tang, Christian Waldvogel + Fabio Gramazio, Zurich Art Weekend, ETH Zurich
05.03.2022 «AI+Art Talks», with Nora Al-Badri, Alex Ilic + Sabine Himmelsbach, Zurich Art March, ETH Zurich
The importance of dialogue and conversation we learn from David Graeber (1961 - 2020):
«A lot of anarchist practice […] revolves around a certain principle of dialogue; there’s a lot of attention paid to learning how to make pragmatic, cooperative decisions with people who have fundamentally different understandings of the world, without actually trying to convert them to your particular point of view.
It’s always struck me as interesting that in the ancient world, whether in India, China, or Greece, philosophy was written almost exclusively in the form of dialogue […]. Thought, self-reflective consciousness, that which we tend to see as making us truly human – was assumed to be collective (political) or dyadic, but something that almost by definition couldn’t be done all by yourself.
[…] neuroscience has shown the ancients were right: real thought is almost entirely dialogic. […] [Cognitive scientists] do make clear that that, what’s called the “window of consciousness” […] is rare and brief; it averages around maybe seven seconds. Otherwise, you are generally operating on auto-pilot. Unless of course, you are talking to someone else. […] if you are really interested and engaged with someone else you can maintain it for hours. The implications of this are profound, even though we rarely seem to acknowledge it: most self-aware thought takes place at exactly the moment when the boundaries of the self are least clear.»
«Anarchy – In a Manner of Speaking», David Graeber, Zurich 2020
