What kind of AI would we in the independent arts community wish to engage with, if at all?

Throughout the day, a group of 15 artistic fellows supported over the last year by the Musikfonds Artificial Intelligence Scholarship Programme STIP-5 will present their ongoing research into the use of AI in creative spaces throughout all of Radialsystem’s rooms, in formats ranging from presentations and talks, to performances, installations, and more.

As the use of AI in music continues to evolve at breathless speed, we find ourselves constantly processing ways of engaging with the technology and its controversial implications. The crucial question is: What kind of AI would we in the independent arts community wish to engage with, if at all? Fellows and invited experts will come together to examine a range of topics: hybrid compositional processes; the design of new musical instruments and algorithmic agents for musical co-improvisation; non-human group intelligence and complex swarm behaviours; extraction of human labour and natural resources, power, and biases in AI systems; exploring and processing archives through artificial intelligence; and much more. Experts, researchers, scientific organisations, and other collaborators that have supported the fellows will join the programme.

Musikfonds’ Artificial Intelligence Scholarship Programme STIP-5 supports a yearly group of composers and sound artists selected by open call, to develop and strengthen artistic reflections on the far-reaching social consequences of rapidly-spreading AI technologies. Key to the programme is supporting artists in examining opportunities and risks of AI-based composition over an extended period of time. An artist-centred programme, STIP-5 is interested in the critical, unconventional, and anarchic sides of AI, which also have been an ongoing focus of CTM under the Stranger AI thematic strand.

In cooperation with and funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

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The performances this evening will take place with loud volumes. Hearing protection will be available at the door/bar. 

Youth 16–18 years of age can join events that end before midnight, unaccompanied by an adult. Under 16s are only allowed entry when accompanied by a legal guardian. 

Persons taking public transit may check the current status of elevators at the subway stops nearest each venue, via the BVG (both in German and English).