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During January Cyanne van den Houten<\/strong> will be an UmArts TAIGA Artist Researcher in Residence, developing new Art and AI micro-projects investigating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as part of the Art and AI Working Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the residency van den Houten will work on their project aleatory.agent, <\/em>a micro-AI-project that integrates algorithmic chance into the creation of visual art through computer-controlled machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike conventional generative AI tools, the project focuses on embodiment and audience interaction, making the creative process an intuitive experience between people and generative AI systems. It embraces unexpected outcomes by random and controlled variables in image and text generation, using algorithms as the primary creative and performative force.\u00a0The project explores the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of collaborating with AI, addressing questions of agency, authorship, and control.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the residency van den Houten will have an Open Studio event at UmArts. More info soon…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please join the us 22 January at 13.15-14.45 for a <\/strong>HumLab<\/strong> Share<\/a> with Cyanne van den Houten<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyanne van den Houten<\/a><\/strong> is a queer media artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Their practice revolves around the parallels between magic and technology, with the works they aims to explore the synthetic connection between humans and machines. Van den Houten\u00b4s practice is a playful, intuitive place where she hacks current low and high technologies to understand the workings of it. With a background as a (graphic) designer (MA Arts in Design at Sandberg Instituut), her way of working has a design research mentality, foundation in media theory and big makers energy. The common thread in her work is that the machine is always in control over the outcome. Self-built generative systems, chance-based procedures, ever-changing data streams and co-creation with (non)human actors are deeply embedded in her creative practice since 2018. Van den Houten founded art-meets-tech collective Telemagic (www.telemagic.online) in 2016 to uncover the mysteries that revolve around new media and transform them in tangible experiences. Art-meets-tech collective Telemagic give concerts led by artificial intelligence, make interactive installations that dream through museum archives and generative oracles that predict possible futures.  With her project aleatory.agent<\/em> she aims to explore the integration of algorithmic chance operations in the creation of visual art through computer-controlled machines. Unlike typical AI art tools, her project emphasizes the physical interaction between the artist, audience, and machine, developing playful methodologies that embrace the unexpected with algorithms as the primary creative force. The outcome will be a toolkit of animistic instruments playable during performances, introducing randomness to guide both robots (like 3d printers, CNC cutters, drawing bots and plotters) and myself in real-time creation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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UmArts is leading research in Art, Architecture, Design and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Ume\u00e5 University in partnership with the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program \u2013 Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) and Ume\u00e5 University\u2019s Centre for Transdisciplinary AI (TAIGA). In 2023, curator Sarah Cook joined UmArts as the WASP-HS Guest Professor in Art and AI in partnership with Bildmuseet, Ume\u00e5 School of Architecture (UMA), and Ume\u00e5 Institute of Design (UID).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Art and AI working is a group is chaired by Guest Professor Sarah Cook, and includes UmArts postdocs, mentors and artists in residence who are working with AI to share their research and develop new collaborative projects. The group considers how arts research can contribute to the social and ethical discourses of AI and machine learning, working in partnership with museums and galleries, artists and curators. The programme critically interrogates the aesthetics and politics of AI, collaborating with, and challenging the algorithmic logic underpinning hardware and software development. We are interested in how creative encounters can allow publics to experience and engage with the ethical considerations and societal shifts that widespread use of AI will bring and feeding that back into AI development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Octopus Club <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Octopus Club is open to all. It is a book club to close-read texts, artworks and films which investigate distributed intelligence and networked knowledge. Please email Emelie El-Habta<\/a> UmArts Research Co-ordinator you would like to join. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next text is \u2018The Maniac\u2019  by Benjam\u00edn Labatut<\/a> about the life of John von Neumann nominated by Dimitri. This is contrasted with \u2018Klara and the Bomb\u2019 by artist Crystal Bennes,<\/a> about Klara von Neumann who was married to John, nominated by Ele. This comparison will provide an interesting insight into the history of computing and AI from biographical and feminist artistic perspectives. We will have a short discussion about the books with tea and biscuits after the working group meeting and find a date for a full discussion in March\/April. (Some of us are also reading Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s \u2018Klara and the Sun\u2019 for the full trio of titles!) next meeting to be confirmed for March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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