aai International Conference on art(ai) 2021

Subtitle:  

?-(what, The_Author) is

Host: 

Tongji University

Organiser: 

Art & Artificial Intelligence lab, 

College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University

In Collaboration with:

Aiiiii Art Center

Supporter: 

Sino-Italian Campus of Tongji University

Conference Dates:

May 20 - May 21, 2021

CONFERENCE BACKGROUND

The very mention of AI (artificial intelligence) often seems to incite a polarising discourse accompanied by a rather vivid far fetched imagery. Some believe this technology to be the beginning of a precarious predicament caused only by the hubris of man, while others may view this as the ultimate, yet realisable means of a brighter utopian technocratic society. 

The space in which the intersections of this discourse may most creatively come into play, is ironically, the role of AI based art. Rather than dealing simply with a hypothetical narrative

concerning the distant potential power and applications of AI, AI based art places these lines of argument into an immediate transparently observable practice, forcing man to confront, once again, the eternal question of origin concerning the nature of creator and creation.


It is in the witnessing of this transference of autonomy, this reinvention of the artificial as creator, that man will come to understand the true extent and function of such intelligence. Perhaps, a new opening for understanding could be found if we could witness just what this artificial intelligence might have to say for itself. 

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVE

The aai International conference on art (ai) combines the most radical of research from a diverse international curation of fields ranging from art, design, computational science, cultural critique as well as political philosophy. This network is established to pioneer and push the boundaries of artificial intelligence and creative production. The primary prompts for this conference’s study are as such: 

• AI Art: is it a challenge to human creativity?

• What is the aesthetics of machine creativity? 

• What can AI Art teach to AI Ethics?

• Does AI Art mirror the epic alteration of the human conditions and of its environment? 

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

1. ’Who is the Artist?  Cognitive

Assemblages and Distributed Agency’

——Katherine Hayles

2. ’AI Delivered: Abjection and Redemption’

——ZHANG Ga 

3. ’Chagall vs Malevich or How Can We

Become Aliens? ’

——Lev Manovich

4. ’Entangled AllobioEcologies: Latent

Architectures in Liquid Space’

——Marcos Novak

SPEAKERS

Daniel Ambrosi, Aric Po-Kang Chen, Alina Constantin, Regine Debatty, Jake Elwes, Filippo Fabrocini, Ling Fan, Primavera De Filippi, Obvious, Katherine Hayles, Christian Mio Loclair, Lev Manovich, Cao Nan, Marcos Novak, Entangled Others(Sofia Crespo, Feileacan McCormick) , Kostas Terzidis, Steven Umbrello, Andrew Witt, Ga Zhang (Alphabetized by Surname)