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Story System: apply for the workshop run by dmstfctn

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December 6, 2024
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What Story System is

Story System is a two-day masterclass and workshop aimed at artists interested in developing systems for creative writing using AI, run by London-based artist duo dmstfctn. Taking their upcoming work focused on Commedia dell’Arte and AI as a case study, as well as materials from local museum archives, dmstfctn will demonstrate different approaches to create “story systems” that use AI and Large Language Models to write scripts, dialogues, scenarios, etc. Across the two days, participants will work individually or together to come up with their own “story system”, and with support from dmstfctn they will produce a piece of writing. The workshop will conclude with a collective reading of participants’ experiments.

 February 12 – 13, 2025, h. 10 – 17
MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Via Don Giovanni Minzoni, 14, 40121 Bologna BO

How to apply

The workshop will be free of charge for the selected artists. The application form is open until 10 January, the selection will be announced by e-mail by 14 January.

No technical skills are required.

The workshop will be held in English with support in Italian.

For information contact info@sineglossa.it

Meet the teacher: dmstfctn

dmstfctn (Francesco Tacchini and Oliver Smith) is a London-based artist duo working with audiovisual performance, video installation and videogames. Their work investigates complex systems, most recently focusing on the relationship between simulation, machine learning and AI folklore. Since 2018, dmstfctn has performed and exhibited work in venues such as Berghain, Serpentine, Design Museum, Onassis, Corsica Studios, HKW, Fotomuseum Winterthur, System Shanghai, LUMA Arles and Aksioma, and at festivals such as Unsound, CTM, transmediale, Impakt, Semibreve and Borderline. In 2019, MILLE PLATEAUX released Flash Demons, a collection of performances by the artists focusing on financial market crashes. In 2021, Krisis Publishing published “ECHO FX”, the artist’s audiovisual performance about Brexit market manipulation – later also included in “Ø: The Book” published by Flatlines/Hyperdub in 2022. dmstfctn were recipient of the 2017 transmediale Vilém Flusser residency and the 2023 ArtechO Fellowship.

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