Set within the 4DSOUND environment of MONOM, Berlin’s centre for spatial sound, the Wilding AI Lab is designed as a public experiment for sound artists and musicians to learn about and experiment with some of the latest AI systems bridging large-language models and generative AI sound, all within the spatialised audio environment. The lab follows the artist and researcher Beth Coleman’s appeal for imagining an AI »that can be free – if not to imagine, then to generate – speeding through possibilities, junctures that are idiotic until they are not.«
Congratulations to Daniel Limaverde, Evangeline Y Brooks, Federico Visi, Gadi Sassoon, Hyeji Nam, Irini Kalaitzidi, Nico Daleman, Ninon and Jun Suzuki, SENAIDA, Three Amps, Transient Cat, and TWEE who were selected from a pool of 75 applicants. They will join the lab's four days of morning skill-sharing workshops (also open to interested members of the public), plus afternoons of hands-on experimentation closed to lab participants only.
Day 1 (Word) centres around questions of storytelling and world-building in times of generative AI. Beth Coleman will introduce Wilding AI as a critical approach to artistic research-creation in the age of algorithmic culture. Following, Maurice Jones will lead a skill-sharing session exploring the critical application of large-language models in and through artistic practice.
Day 2 (Sound) is focused on the latest developments in generative sound. Led by independent artist and researcher Portrait XO the morning session will provide a crash course ranging from the latest AI tools to practices of data sonification.
Day 3 (Space) is focused on translating word and sound into the spatial audio environment. Led by Alexandre Saunier, the morning skill-sharing session will share the latest AI-driven tools for sound spatialization developed by the Wilding AI collective.
Day 4 (Open Lab) will invite audiences and publics for a series of prototype presentations, artistic interventions, talks and presentations sharing both process and outcomes of the lab and its participants. Furthermore, one day of the festival's discourse programme at radialsystem will be dedicated to discussing the current state of artistic work with AI, featuring the Wilding AI team and further expertes and creatives.
Launched in August 2024 at the MUTEK festival in Montreal, »Wilding AI« presents an open space to reopen the black boxes of generative AI. It gathers folks to encounter each other and the manifold artistic and technological experiments, interventions and provocations, which not only imagine but materially manifest wild AI futures. The initiative has continued experimenting at MUTEK.MX in October 2024 before landing at MONOM in Berlin just ahead of CTM Festival.
Presented in collaboration with »Wilding AI,« a research-creation collective led by Beth Coleman, Romi Morrison and Maurice Jones, the »Wilding AI Lab« at CTM 2025 is supported by MONOM Studios, and CTM Festival.
The ongoing »Wilding AI« initiative is supported by MUTEK, MUTEK Mexico, MONOM Studios, 4DSOUND, Neutone Inc., Concordia University, and the Society for Arts and Technology.
Wilding AI is made possible by round 14 of the Goethe-Institut International Coproduction Fund.