European ARTificial Intelligence Lab

The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab emerged from the European Digital Art and Science Network, a creative collaboration between scientific institutions, Ars Electronica, and cultural partners throughout Europe that unites science and digital art. The program strongly focused on the legal, cultural, educational, and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence, and human values as well as elementary questions about what AI should or should not do, and how and by whom AI systems are developed, deployed, used, and monitored are at the very center of its work.

From the perspective of 13 major cultural operators in Europe (Ars Electronica, Center for Promotion of Science, Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, Laboral, Kapelica Gallery, Science Gallery Dublin, Onassis Cultural Center, The Culture Yard / clickfestival, GLUON, Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences, SOU Festival, le lieu unique, Waag), the AI LAB encompassed the visions, expectations, and fears we associate with a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence.

The partners were connecting artists with research institutions and scientists to fill a gap in dealing with the social components and political questions arising from these enormous technological advances. After three years, the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab can proudly point to a host of substantial accomplishments–more than 350 activities showcasing over 400 artists from 40+ countries. In addition to that, the publication The Practice of Art and AI (https://archive.aec.at/ailab/showmode/92/) combines a documentation of artistic projects presented within the project, discussing the most burning questions raised by the practice of AI and art so far.

The documentation highlights also the extensive program results:

22 residencies bringing artists and AI technologies and researchers together, starting with the first steps with AI and Art collaborations up to joint, scientific publications-
A wide variety of cultural presentations including 29 exhibitions, 8 festivals and 22 performances –
Capacity building programs for professionals as well as educational activities for kids and youngsters in more than 229 single activities
5 Radio shows and 6 concerts
An extensive online program with more than 16 streaming events
A highly active professional exchange among the consortium members and beyond through the many scientific and technological partners
An online platform with the project’s results https://archive.aec.at/ailab/

Over the course of 3 years, the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab gave an account of the current state of affairs surrounding artistic work with AI, the challenges and constraints of such work, and the broad spectrum of approaches that have emerged. This is a highly dynamic field, in which the technology itself advances at breath-taking speed, while the efforts to interpret and understand these developments are in constant flux. What has become clear as a result is the urgent necessity to support further artistic work with AI, as expertise from engineering and policymaking alone prove insufficient to shape a humane and sustainable future use of AI. All this calls for the innovative potential of artists and their ability to ask unexpected, but most relevant questions. Encouraging a broader and deeper involvement of a rising number of artists in this arena will require sustained and intensified efforts and funding from public institutions if we want the practice of Art and AI to flourish. The promising outcomes of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab and the critical inputs from the manifold spectrum of outputs can inspire and stimulate further artistic work and future humane uses of AI. (Source: EAC.)

Zavod Kersnikova

(Partner)

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Unternehmensgruppe der Stadt Linz Holding Gmbh (leader)

Austria (EU)
Ariona Hellas AE (partner)

Greece (EU)
Associacion Hexagone Arts et Sciences (partner)

France (EU)
Centar za promociju nauke (partner)

Republic of Serbia
Culture Yard (partner)

Denmark (EU)
Fundacion la Laboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial (partner)

Spain (EU)
Fundacion Zaragoza Ciudad de Conocimiento (partner)

Spain (EU)
Gluon (partner)

Belgium (EU)
Lieu Unique Scene Nationale de Nantes Association CRDC (partner)

France (EU)
SOU festival (partner)

Georgia
Stichting Waag Society (partner)

Netherlands (EU)
The The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars, and other members of Board, of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin (partner)

Ireland (EU)

Funded projects

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Cultural BEES

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Story (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Moving Balkans

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age