Art and Critical Thinking
The AI+Art program aims to close the cycle of creativity from science to technology, design, and art back to science and therefore to engage in the field of Art and Critical Thinking.
"The Cinderella Moment is where art meets science — and changes in our perceptions affect the way we capture data."1 The ETH AI Center‘s AI+Art program is chasing that Cinderella Moment. The dynamic initiative, curated by Adrian Notz, is a catalyst for fostering dialogues between artists and scientists, resulting in fruitful, inspiring and helpful encounters, collaborations and even artworks, that challenge business oriented development of artificial intelligence (AI) applications and technologies and effectively convey scientific ideas and findings to a wider audience.
By fostering the collaboration between artists and researchers AI+Art invigorates the symbiotic relationship between art and science to empower a critical, ethical and creative mindset in education, research and development and to communicate more broadly beyond industry and entrepreneurship from science to society.
AI+Art promotes an understanding of AI that takes appropriate account of the social, cultural, ethical, sustainable and environ- mental dimensions. We are dedicated to reshaping the narrative and actively contributing to a future-oriented constructive ex- change on the transformative power of AI.
With the art and science collaborations we aim to
- promote Critical Thinking and ethics,
- diversify knowledge and Intelligence,
- contribute new questions and alternative perspectives as well as
- provide inspiration, create visions and fictions for/of the future.
By incorporating themes of public interest with artists as investigators, mediators and moderators, we aim to instigate a meaningful and inclusive dialogue with a broader audience and to captivate them cognitively, emotionally, and aesthetically, offering a unique and immersive experience on different levels.
The AI+Art program is divided into two areas of activity, Conversations and Projects, each with four different formats. This creates an ecosystem where art and science meet in the context of AI research.
The Conversations promote dialog and interaction between artists and scientists, a way of getting to know each other. In the projects, the focus is on realizing works and products together and collaboratively.
1 Krebs Cycle of Creativity, Neri Oxman, 2016