Empathic AI – Art Beyond Digital Digital Symposium
Empathic AI – Art Beyond Digital
NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS
Digital Symposium
3 July, 10 am - 1 pm
The exhibition NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS aims to emphasize the vital role that collaboration between scientific, technological, and artistic domains can play in technological innovation and integrative forms of cutting-edge artistic creation.
Taking place at STATE Studio in Berlin from July 3rd through July 26th, 2020, the show will feature a selection of artworks, objects, and documents highlighting the manifold scope of S+T+ARTS, a program of DG CONNECT in the European Commission, as a platform for co-creation, debate, and cross-pollination.
A two-day digital symposium on July 2nd and 3rd introduces and reflects upon the questions raised in the exhibition and examines how cultural and creative industries, and in particular the arts, contribute to overcoming urgent societal and environmental challenges.
The hybrid symposium Empathic AI – Art creates Industry, organized on July 2nd in collaboration with Germany’s Federal Government’s Centre of Excellence for the Cultural and Creative Industries (Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes), will bring together experts from the creative industries and the arts, technology, policy-makers and industry to discuss, inspire and experiment with art and artificial intelligence (AI).
On the opening day of the exhibition, July 3rd, 2020, NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS presents a full morning program of online events engaging key figures in the fields of art, science, technology, and policy making, to discuss some of the most crucial topics at stake in this European initiative. From the poetics of quantum physics and its impact on future technology, to the productive dialogue between the digital and material spheres in today’s artistic and industrial production.
In the evening of July 3rd, 18:00–22:00, the exhibition will open its doors for the first time and can be visited by appointment. Access to the exhibition is only possible upon prior registration. Registration opens on Tuesday, June 30, 12:00.
Program
10:00 - Welcome from STATE Studio
Welcome by Christian Rauch (Director, STATE Studio)
Greetings from Prof. Dr. Ralf Wehrspohn, Executive Vice President for Technology Marketing and Business Models, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
STARTS introduction and greetings
Curator message: Manuel Cirauqui
10:15 - Dialogue
Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand + Tommaso Calarco
10:45 - Curator’s guided tour
Curator Manuel Cirauqui takes us on a curatorial guided tour of the exhibition NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS
11:30 - STARTS Talk: Art beyond Digital
This online conference addresses current perspectives of generative dialogue between advanced technology and contemporary art practices. Particularly central to this debate is the constant exchange between the virtual and physical spheres, the new materialities that emerge from digital and post-digital work, and the redefinition of key concepts to art and society by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain.
Guest Speakers:
Moderated by: Eva Kaili
12:30 - End of Digital Symposium
From 18:00 Public Exhibition Opening at STATE Studio
Contributors
