STATE of AI

An evening with the legendary XPRIZE Foundation. Learn how teams around the world use moonshot thinking to tackle the world’s grand challenges using cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technologies.

with Jonathon Keats and Alice Gorman.

When: Oct 11, 2017, 7pm-9pm
Where: STATE of AI Pop-Up Studio, 410 S Spring Str, Los Angeles

How to imagine future? And is it of any help to make progress tangible and senseable? What progress can be observed in the area of motions and artificial intelligence? And where else does one find "sentimental machines"?

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?

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.

Can AI be creative? Or is creativity one of the few realms where humans cannot be replaced by machines, software and automation?

with Amir Banifatemi and Christian Rauch

When: October 28, 1–4pm
Where: STATE Studio Pop-Up, 410 S Spring Str, Los Angeles

This critical thinking workshop begins with the question "Would you live with an autonomous prosthesis?"

An Echoborg is a human being that only speaks the words given it by an Artificial Intelligence.

Promoting cuddles considers how public messages in the future may be displayed, in order to support care relations in a world co-inhabited with sentiment machines.

Audiovisual live performance by multimedia artist Rainer Kohlberger.

Poppy N+Z is a performance for a dancer, a Poppy robot, a philosopher and a musician who live together, observe each other and interact on stage.

When machines begin to make art, the position of the artist is shaken: Is there still room for the artist? For the genius? Roman Lipski's works choose such reflections on authorship, genius, and originality as their starting point.

Extrapolating from today’s possibilities in AI and the life sciences, Artificial Affinity is a speculation on how we could aid wild species in more rapidly adapting to anthropocentric environments and vice-versa, increasing non-human animals’ chance of survival and giving their perspective a greater presence in the human world. 

Narciss, by Christian Mio Loclair, is an AI seemingly reflecting on its own existence. The artwork is built as a machine that analyzes its own physical embodiment with the sole purpose of describing its thoughts while looking at itself.

Ways of Seeing is an immersive installation in which the role of various machines is taken on in a contemplative way.

Meandering River is an audiovisual art Installation comprised of real-time generated visuals and music, making changing landscapes perceivable by creating a unique awareness of time.

Marco Donnarumma expresses his artistic view on the Working Life of the Future in his human limb-like Amygdala. The artificially intelligent arm provokes unease when watching it learn an ancient purification ritual on its own skin.

Keep that dream burning is an eight-minute experimental short film, based entirely on algorithmic compositions, who invites its viewers on a journey of fine black-and-white particles fluttering across the screen. 

Spontaneously interact with an AI to visually reflect your thoughts and feelings. Mycroft will question you about a variety of topics. No matter if your responses are coherent, random or non-linear, Mycroft will leave you with something to contemplate.

Described by Artsy as "the biggest artistic achievement in 2017," STATE is proud to host the first selection of images created by the acclaimed AICAN algorithm and produced in the Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab at Rutgers University.

In a mashup of dialogue from the two movies, a new context for the electronic protagonists' words is created.

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?

Filmmakers have always been fascinated with the potential of dystopian scenarios where machines and humans endlessly collide in violent confrontations under a dark and gloomy sky.

In the film's Berlin Premiere, Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works - from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct our personal relationships.