Sineglossa coordinates an international network in which artists, youth activists and computer scientists collaborate to raise community awareness of mobility challenges
AI4Future is a two-year program that uses the potential of art in dialogue with Artificial Intelligence to support the social causes of various European activist groups committed to addressing the cultural and social changes of our time.
Urban workshops where artists and activists work
4 Urban Labs active in Milan, Cagliari, Rotterdam and Barcelona host the artists in residence and collaborate to redefine the concept of post-covid mobility from data collected from communities, understanding mobility not only as the possibility of getting around, but also as the relationship between the physical and virtual worlds, the relationship between public and private spaces, and social and gender mobility.
AI, phygital worlds, and digital barriers
Selected artist: Bernat Cunì
Opera: PANORAMAI
Selected by Esprocenda/Lemongrass
Urban Lab: Barcelona, with EXO in collaboration with Canodròm
PANORAMAI
is an artwork based on endless panorama videos generated by AI using large image datasets created by the community during their commutes and different modes of mobility. This project will use AI to digest extensive amounts of image data in order to learn the visual common denominators of diverse modes of mobility.
The piece explores the multiple narratives around Access to Internet and Digital Divide with a set of lenticular prints that reveal different narratives depending on the angle that are viewed from, thus showcasing how different people can experience or understand the multiple realities if explored from diverse points of view.
AI and community mobilization in public spaces
Selected artist: Nino Basilashvili
Opera: Moving Forward
Selected by Sardinia Theatre
Urban Lab: Cagliari, with A FORAS
Moving Forward is an interactive installation in public space. In the digital age AI is already measuring and predicting our behavior, what does this mean for our freedom? Public space nowadays is more and more subjected to technologies used for crowd control. What if we use the same technologies that limit us to gain more freedom? AI can be used for positive values, we just need a shift in thinking and applying. The artist is investigating these themes together with activist groups in Sardinia, collaborating to the interactive installation. developed together with activist groups.
AI, platform urbanism and social mobility
Selected artist: Luca Pozzi
Opera: ROSETTA MISSION 2022
Selected by MEET DIGITAL CULTURE CENTER
Urban Lab: Milan, with FAI Fondo Ambiente Italiano
RM2022 is inspired by the homonymous space mission of E.S.A., the European Spatial Agency between 2004 and 2016. It is the 3D reconstruction of the 67.P Churyumov Gerasimenko comet, transformed from a physical celestial body into a digital convergence point for different disciplines.The RM2022 is a temporary free Hub, without specific political, religious, and geographical coordinates, suitable for interdisciplinary contributions and social interaction: a meeting point for activists, artists, philosophers, and scientists. In Barcelona will be presented a DEMO version in order to suggest possible connections between the public of the Espronceda and activist groups, involving a VR experience and an environmental soundtrack.
AI and gender inequality
Selected artist: Chunju Yu
Opera: Being a cat, being a fish, being a dog
Selected from V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media
Urban Lab: Rotterdam, with The Slow Reading Group
Inspired by fake celebrity porn made by deepfake technology, Being a cat, Being a fish, Being a dog aims to address the issue of sexual exploitation in the porn industry. The first part of the work, Being a cat, is about the catfishing of a porn conversation on dating apps using AI-generated faces. Being a fish, is a MMF threesome porn in which the performers’ faces are swapped to the artist’s face. In Being a dog, the face of a woman is substituted with a dog face in a masturbation porn. The work uses words, images and actions to intervene in the patriarchal value of the intimate online spaces from different regions, interrupting the male gaze among the public. It discusses the lawfully and technologically inequality of gender and the entrenched male-standard perception of sexuality from the public opinions.
Public events
AI4FUTURE DAYS
4 events with talks, panel e workshops about Artificial Intelligence and Mobility: here the program
Milan, MEET Digital Culture Center, April 15 – 16, 2021, Post pandemic mobility
Cagliari, Sardinia Theater, May 12 – 13, 2021, Mixed Reality and Mobility
Rotterdam, V2_Lab for the Unstable Media, May 25 – 26, 2021, AI and gender inequality
Barcelona, Espronceda, June 3 – 4, 2021, AI for Sustainability and Inclusive gamification
AI4FUTURE PREVIEW
Barcelona, ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture, June 10 – 18, 2022
within DIGITAL AWARENESS a collective show by Espronceda per ISEA 2022 Extended Program, side event of The Festival of the New European Bauhaus
AI4FUTURE SHOWCASE
Data and Activism in Milan, MEET Digital Culture Center, September 16-18, 2022
To know more
Watch Federico Bomba’s presentation at ISEA 2022.
Watch the videointerviews with the cultural organizations that joined the project, and with artists Bernat Cunì, Nino Basilashvili, Chunju Yu, Luca Pozzi.
Credits
AI4FUTURE is an international network of Urban Labs formed by Sineglossa in the role of coordinator, along with partners such as MEET Digital Culture Center, the first international center for Digital Art and Culture in Milan, Lemon Grass, the Institute of Art and Culture based in Barcelona, V2_Lab for the Unstable Media, the Dutch center for Art and Media Technology, and Sardegna Teatro as an associate partner.
The project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Program.
