Instigated by AI and machine learning, in 2018 we invited artists to answer the question: How might musicians respond to themes of machine intelligence? Harnessing machine learning to transform sound or create new instruments, they sought to answer ideas around machines and algorithms through performance and composition ideas. As always, the essential challenge wasn't just hacking code or circuits or art, but collaboration.
This Hacklab edition was co-hosted by Ioann Maria and Peter Kirn, and housed at Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin. The finale performance took place at HAU2. Four public Hacklab Input talks rounded out the lab's activities: »The Speculative Future of Art, Music & Technology« by Moritz Simon Geist, »The Automation of Songwriting, Production, & Curation« by Gene Kogan, »AI Futures: Training Our Algorithms To Be« by Estela Oliva, and »Signal + Noise in Algorithmic Capitalism« by Wesley Goatley.
| Adrien Bitton | Alex Alexopoulos (Wild Anima) |
| Andreas Dzialocha | Anna Kamecka |
| Aziz Ege Gonul | Camille Lacadee |
| Carlo Cattano | Carlotta Aoun |
| Claire Aoi | Damian T. Dziwis |
| Daniel Kokko | Elias Najarro |
| Gašper Torkar | Islam Shabana |
| Jason Geistweidt | Joshua Peschke |
| Julia del Río | Karolina Karnacewicz |
| Marylou Petot | Moisés Horta Valenzuela AKA ℌEXOℜℭℑSMOS |
| Venus Ex Machina | Sarah Martinus |
| Thomas Haferlach |
Presented with CDM, Native Instruments, and the SHAPE platform, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany.