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2 minute read - BY Jon McCormack

Jon is back from this year’s Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria. Ars is one of the biggest festivals of its kind, probing the interactions of Art, Technology and Society, and this year was its 40th anniversary. The stats are impressive: 5 days, 16 locations, 501 exhibits, 548 individual events, 1,449 artists and scientists from 45 countries, 110,000 visitors. We review the festival, in particular the impact of AI on the artworks, discussions and presentations.

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2 minute read - BY ai.SensiLab team
Ever been in an art gallery and wondered if something was really art? Well, wonder no more: a handy new app allows you to harness the power of AI to decide on the question: “is that art…or not?”

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5 minute read - BY ai.SensiLab team
This week we take a look at the new round of “Deep Fakes” making their way across the internet. Deep Fakes are realistic looking and sounding videos – often of well known people – synthesised using deep learning techniques. Join Jon, Nina and Dilpreet as they discuss the implications of a world where you can’t be certain what is real and what is fake anymore.

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2 minute read - BY ai.SensiLab team
Our podcast this week looks at a new exhibition on AI art that opened at the Barbican centre in London. AI: More than Human is an ambitious exhibition that explores the relationship between humans and AI technology. The show has received mixed reviews, particularly from art critics. Join Creative AI researchers Jon, Nina and Dilpreet as they unpack why AI Art exhibitions are problematic and might not be as favourable to art critics as traditional exhibitions of human art.

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11 minute read - BY Jon McCormack
Can we ever really know what it would be like to be an artificial artist? SensiLab Director Jon McCormack discusses the implications and provocations of a world where AI Artists become major players in human culture.

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a minute read - BY ai.SensiLab team
The Creative AI group at SensiLab meets every week to talk about our research topics. These meetings often turn into discussions on various aspects of Creative AI. News, events, history and opinions are raised and debated. Starting this week we have begun recording highlights of this discussion in the hope that it sparks some input from the wider community.

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8 minute read - BY Justine Emard and Jon McCormack

Justine Emard is a French artist based in Paris. She works across a variety of mediums including photography, video, installation and augmented reality. For several years she has been collaborating with Japanese research Professor Takashi Ikegami’s lab at the University of Tokyo. In her work Co(AI)xistence a human dancer (Mirai Moriyama) and a human-like robot interact in a variety of ways, suggesting both courtship and confrontation.

I spoke with her to find out more about her unique practice and the ideas that motivate her work.

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13 minute read - BY Daria Parkhomenko and Jon McCormack

Daria Parkhomenko is the founder and director of LABORATORIA, an Art and Science Foundation based in Moscow, Russia. For the last ten years the foundation has promoted a dialogue at the intersection of Art and Science, realised as exhibitions, international collaborations, symposiums and conferences. Following the successful Daemons in the Machine exhibition, which presented works related to Artificial Intelligence and society, I spoke with Daria about the concepts driving the exhibition and her views on AI and Art.

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