Artificial Intelligence | Online Workshop | English | Europe-Mideast-Africa
Description:
“Synthetic intelligence” workshop questions the role of synthetic forms of cognition within the design process in order to shape a new aesthetic value system. From the numerical perspective of machine learning, notions such as style, form, flow and movement can be all described as distributions of a pattern. Thus to study a new form of design intelligence would mean to study the manner by which information flows and patterns are absorbed and treated by AI. A machine learning system can be compared to a device that maps and perceives complex patterns through vast spaces of data. Instead of treating AI as a machine hallucination or alien cognition, we will consider machine learning as an instrument of knowledge magnification - a technique to see and navigate the space of knowledge. Aesthetic here becomes a meta-language. It is a meta-pattern that creates a framework of conversation and communication with the non-human. We will use computational methods to analyse patterns in historical culture in the available digitized archives in order to form a new aesthetic value system through coding and drawing. Final outcome of the seminar will consist of a catalogue of GAN generated drawings and videos, which will aim to open up new techniques within the design process.
Key Words:
Aesthetic,Intelligence,Non-Human,Pattern
Required Skills:
recommended but not necessary: basics of coding or visual programming
Required Software:
Google, Colaboratory, Adobe package
Required Hardware:
computer with good specifications, good internet connection
Maximum number of participating students:
20
Schedule:
Jun 26 - Jul 2
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Day 1 / Jun 26
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Day 2 / Jun 27
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Day 3 / Jun 28
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Day 4 / Jun 30
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Day 5 / Jul 1
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Day 6 / Jul 2
Instructors:
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Maria Kuptsova MA,Research associate and Doctorate candidate at the University of Innsbruck, Institute of Urban Design, Synthetic Landscape Lab; Curator of “Technological Art: Towards a New Intelligence '' Major, Art&Science, ITMO University; Head of Design Innovation, ITMOTECH; Artist and Curator –Digitocene.Net.Maria Kuptsova is a meta-artist, research practitioner and educator in the fields of transdiciplinary art and architecture. Her current research questions the role of artificial and natural intelligence within the design process, aiming to formulate bio-machinic design techniques, as well as to articulate a cyborganic aesthetical language driven by synthetic forms of cognition. Maria is a research associate at the Synthetic Landscape Lab, Institute of Urban Design, University of Innsbruck. She is a curator of “Technological Art: Towards a New Intelligence '' Major at the Art&Science at ITMO University, as well as artist and curator of art initiative –Digitocene.Net. -
Artem Konevskikh Strelka KB, lead data scientist; Current.cam, artist; Physics Kunstcamera,co-founderArtem Konevskikh studied computer science at Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering and Automation (graduated in 2007) and then applied this knowledge in the field of experimental particle physics by developing data acquisition systems and doing data analysis for CERN and Institute for Nuclear Research RAS. He is also one of the founders of the maker-space - Physics Kunstcamera - in Troitsk, Moscow, where he is teaching advanced technologies for rapid prototyping and software development. This brought him to Strelka Institute’s The New Normal program to research the impact of new technologies on society. The result of this research experience is the Atoll project - a speculative platform that uses neural networks for the simulation of urban processes. Currently, Artem is working at Strelka KB where he is developing urban analysis tools as well as collaborating in artistic and research projects on the implementation of artificial intelligence and neural networks into the design processes. -
Claudia Pasquero Innsbruck University, The Bartlett UCL, ecoLogicStudio,Professor for Landscape Architecture| Synthetic Landscape Lab at IOUD | Head of Institute at IOUD | UIBK | Innsbruck University Lecturer and Director of the Urban Morphogenesis Lab at The Bartlett UCL | London Director and Co-founder | ecoLogicStudio | LondonClaudia Pasquero is an architect, curator, author and educator; her work and research operates at the intersection of biology, computation and design. She is Professor of Landscape Architecture, founder of the Synthetic Landscape Lab and Head of Institute for IOUD at Innsbruck University. She is also co-founder and director of ecoLogicStudio and director of the Urban Morphogenesis Lab at the Bartlett UCL in London. Claudia has been Head Curator of the Tallinn Architectural Biennale 2017, and she has been nominated in the WIRED smart list in the same year. She is co-author of "Systemic Architecture - Operating manual for the self-organizing city" published by Routledge in 2012, she is currently co-authoring DeepGreen: bio technologies in the age of AI that will be punished in 2022. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally: at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, the Center Pompidou, the Mori Museum in Tokyo, the MAK Museum in Vienna, the Venice Architectural and Art Biennale, ZKM Karlsruhe, the AstanaExpo2017 and MilanoExpo2015 among others. ecoLogicStudio has in recent year completed a series of photosynthetic architectures, such as, the Otrivin AirBubble playground in Warsaw 2021, the BioTechHut Pavilion for Expo Astana 2017, HORTUS Astana 2017, Urban Algae Folly Aarhus 2017, PhotoSynthEtica Dublin 2019, HORTUS XL 2020 for the Center Pompidou in Paris, PhotosSynthEtica Helsinki 2020 upon others.