After encounters in recent years- about design and digital manufacturing, culture makers and new means of creation and audiovisual production within the framework of various European networks- WinterLAB 2019 will focus on the confluence between Art and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Since late 2018 -and for the next three years-, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial is part of the European ARTificial Intelligence Laboratory (AIlab), a project co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe program and the Government of the Principality of Asturias. Through this project, the AIlab network aims to bring AI technologies to a wider audience in order to contribute to a more critical, reflective, and participatory society in building the future. The project focuses on aspects beyond the technological and economic horizon to analyze cultural and social aspects. From the perspective of the 13 main cultural operators of this European network (Ars Electronica in Linz, Centre for the Promotion of Science in Belgrade, the City of Knowledge Foundation in Zaragoza, Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana, Science Gallery in Dublin, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, The Culture Yard / clickfestival in Helsingr, GLUON in Brussels, Hexagone Scène Nationale des Arts in Grenoble, SOU Festival in Tbilisi, le lieu unique in Nantes, Waag Society in Amsterdam and, finally, LABoral in Gijón), AIlab will address the visions, expectations, benefits and fears that we associate with AI through an extensive program of activities in the form of exhibitions, laboratories, workshops, conferences, talks, performances, concerts and residences, always with a transdisciplinary approach.
The WinterLAB program offers both theoretical and practical activities. This encounter is meant to enrich the production of new experiences and knowledge through dialogue and interaction among artists, scientists, technologists and citizens, in order to encourage and share critical thinking, as well as creative processes and innovative participatory dynamics in the field of AI. This meeting places contemporary artistic practices in the role of social engineering, in order to serve as a mediator among all participating agents. The presentations and colloquia are intended to critically analyze the state of the art, and then to call for an open and transversal reflection in which scientific research, as well as artistic creation and citizen participation explore the challenges posed by IA for the most diverse fields of experience and knowledge. In doing so, it seeks to address the lack of both knowledge and methodologies related to the use of AI within the educational system, the home environment, and social networks and the handling of our digital devices.
The practical workshops seek to make languages and creative proposals known to wider audiences and, at the same time, offer creators and professionals tools and techniques applicable to their creative processes.
WinterLAB 2019 coincides with the opening of the exhibition D3US EX M4CH1NA, also framed within the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab project (AIlab).
Registration is free of charge.
Note: It is essential to register due to limited space for the activities.
FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER
10 – 12:30 Feminist Data Set – Workshop Taught by: Caroline Sinders
11:30 – 12:15 Everyone talks about Artificial Intelligence, but … Is it happening? Lecture given by Isabel Fernández
12:15 – 13:00 Artificial intelligence and gender – Colloquium – Panel members: Isabel Fernández and Caroline Sinders). Moderator: Antonio Bahamonde
13:15 – 14:00 Guided tour of the exhibition D3US EX M4CHINA
19:30 – 20:15 Official opening of the exhibition D3US EX M4CHINA
20:30 – 21:05 Le Comité. Performance directed by Daniel Romero
21:05 – 21:30 Meeting with the Public
SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER
11:00 – 11:40 Singing in the Rain: Artificial Voices in the Musical Field. – Lecture given by Jordi Janer
11:40 – 13:40 – Creating expressive voices for interactive video games – Workshop taught by Jordi Janer
12:00 – 12:40 Towards an Artificial Intelligence closer to the human being – Lecture given by Amparo Alonso Betanzos
12:45 – 13:35 Zaragoza Declaration: For a deontology in design and interaction with intelligent systems – Lecture given by Manuel González Bedia
13:40 – 14:30 – Where is AI taking us? – Round table
17:00 – 17:30 Artificial Intelligence as an assistant in artistic production – Lecture given by Birk Schmithüsen
17:30 – 18:00 Who is the author of a work made with artificial intelligence? – Colloquium
