In contrast to sympathy, empathy allows us to put ourselves in the shoes of another. Can we actually train the brain to be more social?
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Ivor Diosi, Jacques-André Dupont & Clément Destephen, Rose-Lynn Fisher, Susanna Hertrich, Jonathon Keats, Barbara Nordhjem & Jan Klug, Lauren McCarthy & Kyle McDonald, Tillmann Ohm, Margherita Pevere, Ruben van de Ven
Floor 3
Friday & Saturday
10:00 – 20:00
Reading: "Wie wir lieben – vom Ende der Monogamie". We experience love that does not correspond to any theories. Karig tells the reader about men who are urgently longing for relationships and families, in contrary to all prejudices. About women who demand the maximum of liberty, without any ideological superstructure. About love that breathes freely. And about love that dies from all this self-discovery.
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ASN will present several artistic projects making res invisible visible, in which cellular robots become not only metaphors of life and its evolution, of beauty and truth in nature, but also means of interpersonal communication and embodiment of human pride, creativity, desires as well as fears.
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Robots and computers have so far been conceived to perform punctual tasks and exercises in order to help humans with their daily tasks. What would happen if we managed to incorporate learning capabilities into the way they operate?
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Lymph, a work created specifically in response to the theme of the STATE Festival 2016, addresses the nature-culture dichotomy within the broader context and field of affective sciences.
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Questions about what additional knowledge and experience we can acquire by tinkering with and reflecting on current research in creative ways, and to what extend creativity in machines and artificial intelligence is being explored and developed are addressed and discussed.
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We Know How You Feel is an artwork with two parts, looking at computational emotion classification and categorisation; with Emotion Hero the artist developed an Android game that encourages one to investigate how face and feelings are represented by the software.
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This installation creates awareness of even the most subtle movements of the face, and a space for interaction purely based on facial expressions.
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Molding the signifier is a time-based, hybrid, bio-cybernetic installation deploying an external biological agent to infiltrate and disrupt the body-mind ecosystems of virtual humans, resulting in states that we regular humans could perceive as mental illness.
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Autonomous is an intense, emotional look into a future that is already here.
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Within the coming decades, we’ll have the ability to create computers with greater-than-human intelligence, bio-engineer our species and redesign matter through nanotechnology. How will these technologies change what it means to be human?
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The project and installation, specifically developed for STATE Festival 2016, will engage the emotional cognition of visitors' stomachs and intestines in solving one of the world's most pervasive and intractable problems: anthropogenic climate change.
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Frankie is a robot that interviews people about their emotions, attempting to 'learn' what it means to be human. It responds to emotions both with language and 'eye' (camera) movements, creating computer-generated, emotion-inspired video.
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In the near future, sentient robots are targeted for elimination after they develop emotional symmetry to humans, and a revolutionary war for their survival begins.
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A film about the eternal questions of love in the age of artificial intelligence.
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A robot couple goes to a therapist to solve their problems.
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Human Reflections is part of The New York Times' s T Brand Studio collaboration with UBS and MediaVest for the creation of a multimedia interactive project looking into the current state and future of artificial intelligence.
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The iMom will change your life! Well, at least, that's what the ads claim. But when a mother leaves her kids under the supervision of the family's iMom, an unexpected connection is formed.
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A man's journal entry depicting the last step of humanity's evolution.
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