AI Center Pizza Night - AI & Arts: Artist-in-Residence
Event details
| Date | 27.09.2024 |
| Hour | 18:00 › 20:00 |
| Speaker | EPFL AI Center, Giulia Bini, Alice Bucknell, Matthew C. Wilson, Emilia Tapprest, Sahej Rahal |
| Location | |
| Category | Miscellaneous |
| Event Language | English |
Join us for a unique evening where the worlds of AI and creativity collide over pizza!
Enter the Hyper-Scientific (ETHS) and the EPFL AI Center are delighted to invite you for a networking event aimed at introducing the ETHS 2024-2025 Artists residents to the AI community.
Initiated by EPFL College of Humanities (CDH), amplified by EPFL Pavilions, and in partnership with The City of Lausanne, the CDH Artist-in-Residence program Enter the Hyper-Scientific was launched with the goal of fostering transdisciplinary encounters between artists and EPFL’s scientific community. Artists work in collaboration with different laboratories on the EPFL campus, developing interdisciplinary projects and conducting research to create innovative works, which are then presented in public exhibitions at EPFL Pavilions.
Enter the Hyper-Scientific invites professional Swiss and international creative practitioners to realize innovative and visionary projects at the intersection of art, science, and advanced technologies.
Event Details:
- Date: September 27, 2024
- Time: 18:00-21:00
- Location: ELE 117 - AI Center Lounge
- Registration required, with your EPFL email address (limited seats): CLICK HERE
- 18:00-18:15: Welcome & Introduction of the CDH AiR program - EPFL AI Center & Dr. Giulia Bini, Head of Program and Curator at CDH
- 18:15-19:00: Introductory Talks: Artists from ‘Enter the Hyper-Scientific’
- Staring at the Sun by Alice Bucknell
- Interspecies Interfaces by Matthew C. Wilson & Emilia Tapprest
- The Entity by Sahej Rahal
- 19:00-21:00: Pizza, and networking
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Meet the artists
Alice Bucknell
Alice Bucknell is a North American artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Using game engines and speculative fiction, their work explores interconnections between architecture, ecology, magic, and non-human and machine intelligence. Bucknell is generally interested in the limits of scientific knowledge and systems thinking, the weird possibilities of play, and the ecological dimensions of games that can dissolve binaries such as human vs environment, natural vs synthetic intelligence, and self vs world. In 2021, Bucknell founded New Mystics, a digital platform merging magic and technology. In 2022 they organized New Worlds, an experimental event series at London’s Somerset House Studios expanding on emergent worlding practices.
Sahej Rahal
Sahej Rahal, born in 1988 in Mumbai, is primarily a storyteller. He weaves together fact and fiction to create mythological worlds that unfold within the present. These myth-worlds take the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, and AI simulation programs in which indeterminate beings begin to emerge from the cracks between the real and the imagined.
Matthew C. Wilson
Matthew C. Wilson is a filmmaker and artist from the United States based in the Netherlands. In his videos, sculptures, and installations, viewers meet human, non-human, and inter-subjective agents that are entangled with natural processes and shape-shifting historical forces. His projects utilize research-oriented, site-specific, and methodologically eclectic approaches to track the inertia of modernity through contemporary ecological crises and into speculative futures.
Emilia Tapprest
Emilia Tapprest (NVISIBLE.STUDIO) is a Finnish-French filmmaker and visual artist based in Amsterdam. Her collaborative work explores how emerging developments in technology and social imaginaries interact with the post-industrial subject in affective, preconscious, and sensorial ways, often within speculative scenarios. Her work has been presented on international platforms such as Vdrome, Kunstverein Schattendorf, Impakt Festival, VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, and Bologna Art City.
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Practical information
- General public
- Registration required
- This event is internal
Organizer
- EPFL AI Center & EPFL College of Humanities (CDH)