Short Summary In the context of Concordia’s AI summer school and the critical AI conference, Unstable Diffusions, we held two related engagement workshops: one with students of the summer school, and one with Canadian civil society actors. Throughout the workshop we enrolled participants in joint futuring exercises using the strategic foresight method Three Horizons and… Continue reading AI + SOCIETY 2038
Author: Fenwick McKelvey
CFP: Special issue on (un)Stable Diffusions
Edited by Fenwick McKelvey, Joanna Redden, Jonathan Roberge, and Luke Stark (names in alphabetical order) To be published in the open access Journal of Digital Social Research. Please submit your abstracts here: https://forms.gle/hWQxvuRTWoFhVs3W6 The recent release of so-called “general-purpose artificial intelligence” (GPAI) systems have prompted a public panic that AI-generated fiction is now indistinguishable from… Continue reading CFP: Special issue on (un)Stable Diffusions
(de)Stabilizing Diffusions
A 10-day public exhibition dissecting the role of art in the publicity of AI at the Society for Arts and Technology in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Dates: 15 – 24 May 2023 Daily 9:00 – 17:00 (Closed on the weekend) Free Entry Location: Café SAT (Society for Arts and Technology) Finissage May 23 18:00 – 22:00 19:00 ~… Continue reading (de)Stabilizing Diffusions
(un)Stable Diffusions
A two-day international symposium on AI’s publics, publicities, and publicizations at Milieux Institute, Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Rens Dimmendaal & Johann Siemens / Better Images of AI / Decision Tree reversed / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 May 23 to May 24, 9am to 5pm Online and in person at Milieux Institute EV Building, 1515 Saint-Catherine St WMontreal Quebec… Continue reading (un)Stable Diffusions
AI Police Imaginaries
An Examination of AI Assisted Police Surveillance Daniel Slapcoff, Camille Lapointe, Ali Usama Zreik and Warsame Isse
No Tweets, Just Vibes
Checking Twitter’s Vibe And Speculative Sonic Futures With Vibebot Rowena Chodhowski, Maurice Jones, and Leona Nikolić In the 1930s, music was introduced into elevators in an effort to reduce passenger discomfort and fear as these apparatus were quite hazardous and unpredictable at the time. This music was not designed as an object for active listening,… Continue reading No Tweets, Just Vibes
[Art]ificial Intelligence
Authenticity and Audience Reactions to Stylistic Mimicry Using Stable Diffusion Ozgem Elif Acar, Hannah Jamet-Lange, Margaret Johnston, Peter Morgan, Sophie Ogilvie-Hanson Generative artificial intelligence tools have developed rapidly. Pour project start just as text-to-image generation software was becoming increasingly popular and readily available through programs such as Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, Open AI’s DALL-E, and… Continue reading [Art]ificial Intelligence
Artificial Broadcast
Follow Alex, Aviva and Beatrice as they venture into the daunting world of A.I. in order to shed light on the intersection of artificial intelligence, journalism and bias. In an effort to explore algorithmic auditing and AI in more depth, our team created a three-part podcast series that delves into the research-creation process of algorithmic… Continue reading Artificial Broadcast
MUTEK Fest-Forward: Imagining Future Festivals
During MUTEK Forum 8th edition in Montreal, our team convened members of the public, policy makers, industry professionals, and artists to speculate on the transforming role of the festival as a sociopolitical actor. Here we want to share our approach that takes as points of departure the Digital Democracy Workshop Kit on speculative design and… Continue reading MUTEK Fest-Forward: Imagining Future Festivals
Machine Ménagerie
by Joseph Thibodeau Machine Ménagerie is an installation comprising a collection of small autonomous robots living together in a transparent enclosure. Ranging in shape and sophistication, these artificial creatures have no “function”. They spend their time entangled in a mesh of interactions with each other and the environment, much as we do. They are embodiments… Continue reading Machine Ménagerie