AI²– ARTISTIC INQUIRY X ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Artificial Intelligence is evolving at dazzling speed, reshaping the landscapes of art and design education, cultural heritage and artistic research, to name a few. The AI² consortium believes that art can lead to meaningful and responsible innovation and aims to build a shared language to deal with this new reality. With three interconnected projects, AI² addresses the ethical, cultural and environmental impacts of AI technologies and develops new modes of engagement through artistic inquiry and transdisciplinary collaboration. 

AI² is driven by a collective desire to collaborate, reflect and learn and creates platforms for artists, technologists, and researchers to work and play together to cultivate ethical and reflective practices that can help us shape and navigate the future of our fields. The projects are guided by questions like: How can we engage with AI in critical, ethical and sustainable ways? How will AI change filmmaking and impact production, technology and spectatorship? How can AI reconfigure and reactivate audiovisual archives responsibly?

• Slow AI (Visual Methodologies Collective at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, supported by cultural partner Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision) aims to foster a critical, ethical, and sustainable relationship with AI by reimagining how we engage with these technologies and speculating alternative presents and futures with them. 
• Archival Landscapes of AI (Informatics Institute & Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, supported by cultural partner EYE Filmmuseum) promotes environmental sustainability through archival practices, exploring how AI relates to historical narratives and environmental histories. 
• AI Greenhouse (Netherlands Film Academy Research Department at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, supported by cultural partner AIxDESIGN) explores the impact of AI on filmmaking, examining how media evolution influences and informs our understanding of reality.

By cross-pollinating artistic and scientific research, the AI²– Artistic Inquiry x Artificial Intelligence consortium aims to provide holistic perspectives on AI technologies, that include human and more-than-human experience, ethical considerations, and planetary awareness towards more just futures.