Examining the potential benefits and risks of using artificial intelligence to advance global sustainability
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The project revolves around the idea of sending humans to one of the points in space where gravity is absent. Frozen bodies would float until their weak gravities make them assemble into a blob: in this way, a new ‘human’ planet is extra-terraformed
Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence may alter how we see our place in the universe, as machines pursue goals independent of their creators and outperform us in domains previously believed to be the sole dominion of humans
In 1961, Donald Michie, a British WWII code breaker and a researcher in artificial intelligence, developed MENACE (the Machine Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine), one of the first programs capable of learning to play and win a game of Noughts and Crosses (or Tic-Tac-Toe if you’re American.) Since he had no computers at his disposal at the time, he created a device built out of matchboxes and glass beads to simulate a learning algorithm.
Following in the footsteps of a Marco Polo-esque spice trade, an expedition led by artist Jon Cohrs traveled by canoe past massive cargo ships and factories in search of the numerous artificial flavoring factories of New Jersey, the flavoring capital of the U.S.
Is science the new art? Starting from this provocative question, art historian Ingeborg Reichle examines in her book responses of contemporary artists when faced with recent scientific and technological advances
The latest exhibition at Laboral, AUTO. DREAM AND MATERIAL, showcases 100 artworks which, each in their own way, explore the relationship between car culture and art creation in recent decades
All the videos of the VIDA competition winning artworks that were produced with or commented on artificial life technologies
Eden was inspired by Jon McCormack‘s time in the Litchfield National Park, in Australia. The artwork is a […]
Nanotechnologists have developed made alcohol- and hydrogen-powered artificial muscles that are 100 times stronger than natural muscles. And […]
A team of researchers is working on a nano-size battery that one day could be implanted in the […]
SNØBALL is a physical game that mimics the ancient play of snowball throwing. The rapid use of fossil […]
Last Sunday i visited the ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany). They have a mind-blowing Light Art from Artificial Light […]
Fugue is an on-going project which offers participants to interact with a virtual (artificial) immune system. They can […]
The energy released by a large hurricane can exceed the energy consumption of the human race for a […]
Scientists at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have re-created one of nature’s most sensitive sound detectors […]
An artificial nose that can tell whether someone is ill from the smell of their breath is being […]
In the next few months, an artificial brain called Cyc will be put online for the world to […]
A group of Kyoto researchers has developed what is probably the world’s smallest artificial muscle, capable of holding […]
Israeli company Fertiligent has devised a disposable pump to improve the effectiveness of a treatment for infertility for […]
By shooting intense radio beams into the night sky, researchers with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program […]
A bioartificial kidney has been developed by David Humes at the University of Michigan. It could help intensive […]
Cyberzoo, by Argentinean artist Gustavo Romano, is a virtual zoo where it is possible to experience the wildest […]
Albert Libchaber and his team at Rockefeller University have made the first steps towards creating a form of […]
An artificial throat that swallows, breathes, salivates and knocks back fizzy drinks has been developed to predict how […]
An event in Marseille offered some thoughts on ideas of sustainability, resilience and the effects of the capitalocene on non-human life
HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel invites visitors to play with video games that challenge gaming tropes -in particular the stereotypes of virility and the logic of competition- as well as our understanding of what it means to interact
“The recreational and tourist industry is constantly producing new sports models and trends which show a kind of detachment from the landscape context. Events that take place in a landscape that is in itself fragile due to its topographical configuration, such as glaciers, are only related to the place through the type of sporting activity practicised there”
Maxime Berthou’s cloud-seeding performance meant that he basically attempted to “steal” clouds heading to the US and make them rain over Canada. This artistic gesture hinted at the possibility of geopolitical disputes arising between neighbour countries over the ownership of water contained in clouds
While sparsely occupied ultra-thin “pencil towers” develop in our cities, functioning as speculative wealth storage for the superrich and cavernous “iceberg” homes extend architectural assets many stories below street level, communities around the globe are blighted by zombie and ghost urbanism, marked by unoccupied neighbourhoods and abandoned housing developments
The digital revolution has given rise to new models of collaboration and knowledge production but also to new forms of exploitation, precariousness and dependency that have been likened to feudalism
The artists in the show challenge anthropocentrism by playing with machine learning, robotics and computer vision but also by challenging the idea of a presumed hierarchy that places our species over everything else. Be it organic or algorithmic
In Data Garden, the artist imagines how a plant endemic to the Acropolis hill could one day secretly host our digital data in its DNA. Counting Craters on the Moon sparks a collaboration between a 19th century astronomer and an AI to calculate how many craters cover the surface of the moon…
The authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and AI-augmented apps that collect data about individuals and keep wages and worker representation under control. They also provide case studies of new and exciting form of resistance across the globe
A book that unpacks the notion of the mass image through the lens of affective, representational, political, logistical and material economies
While exploring the “de-extinction” movement, artists and designers are also questioning its motives, highlighting its shortcomings and challenging the promise that we can resurrect the animals and plants that we have driven to extinction
Inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet, A Bestiary of the Anthropocene is a compilation of hybrid creatures of our time
The Antilibrary looks closely at artists’ books in order to identify atypical trends and future attitudes. Its material of choice tends to be very speculative, decidedly science-inspired, slightly bizarre and never without a touch of humour
“The witch may be a technophile — she is, however, squinting skeptically at capitalism in everything that she does, and twisting technologies towards beautifully weird outcomes”
The exhibition invites us to challenge the dominant narratives about growth and progress and explore the radical implications of a speculative economic model based on the energy emitted by the Sun