10.09.2024 – 13.09.2024
A thought experiment: How could such a power struggle be described today with regard to the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) as a normative tool, which is leading to a social, communicative and information-theoretical change in a variety of social areas that is difficult to grasp? Under the curatorial direction of KUG professor Anke Eckardt, eight students at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz from various disciplines such as computer music and stage design are exploring the use of AI as an instrument of power and demystifying AI by examining tragic aspects of the tool in their artistic projects. These range from a continuing lack of awareness with regard to the technical singularity of AI in the near future, to facets of dehumanisation and the ecological footprint of AI, to the desirable and dystopian potential of the tool. New tools have always been developed by those who already had greater resources at their disposal. It could be argued that a tragic aspect of the governance of AI is that those with the greatest influence over the regulation of AI have the least interest in doing so; while those with the greatest interest have the least influence. Artists: Antuum, Francesco Casanova, Cornelius Grömminger, Juli Grönefeld, Catherina Jarau, Max Reiner, Lea Sonnek
AI TRAGEDY
10.09.2024 – 13.09.2024
esc medienkunstlabor
Bürgergasse 5, 8010 Graz
www.esc.mur.at
