AI: Artificial Intelligence
An exhibition about the history, functioning, creative possibilities, and ethical and legislative challenges of artificial intelligence today. Experiment with AI, find out about its risks, discover scientific and artistic innovations, and explore a decisive technology for the future of humankind.
Lluís Nacenta and Jordi Torres talk about the cultural and scientific changes surrounding the AI
Inside the exhibition "AI: Artificial Intelligence"
Curator Lluís Nacenta, and scientific adviser to the exhibition “AI: Artificial Intelligence”, Jordi Torres, explain how artificial intelligence is created and developed and how it impacts our lives in science and in art. A conversation to introduce us to this omnipresent ...
Closing of ALIA. artificial intelligence How can we create with creative artificial intelligence?
Joan Sandoval, Mans O & Ana Dueso
Yuk Hui: “We are living in a gigantic technological system”
Victor G. García Castañeda
The Hongkongese philosopher advises deepening our technological imagination outside the confines of the capitalist hegemony and colonialism.
Yuk Hui: “We are living in a gigantic technological system”
We talk to the philosopher Yuk Hui about the shift from the industrial to the cybernetic age, the uselessness of our current-day dystopian discourses and the need to encourage a diversity of technological thinkings able to combat the homogenisation of capitalism. Read the full article
The Other AI Revolutions: Synopsis and Conclusions
Jorge Carrión
The irruption of AI tools is triggering huge structural changes. It forces us to think about the relationship between humans and technology, the need for regulation, the changes to work and the implications for democracy and the information society. In this article, we look at some of the ideas ...
Maurizio Ferraris and Marta Peirano
A social revolution
Artificial intelligence changes the ways we relate with others, human and non-human. It modifies the intimate domain and working relationships. The philosopher Maurizio Ferraris and the journalist Marta Peirano speak about AI mechanisms of social transformation and the future situations that ...
A morning with Helga Nowotny
Adolescence: A Strange Country
Artificial Intelligence has become a powerful prediction tool. An increasing number of instruments are enabling us to see the present and possible outcomes of what awaits us as humanity. In this talk, Helga Nowotny, a sociologist specializing in science and technology reflects on digital ...
On Knowing Matter
Tim Cowlishaw
A speculative cartography of the material ecology of Artificial Intelligence.
Reflex Actions. Generative AI Tools and the Archive
Estampa
When we train an AI with the dataset created from an archive, new questions and ways to analyse its content emerge.
Frank Pasquale and Xavier Nueno
A cultural revolution
In this session, Frank Pasquale, an artificial intelligence law and policy expert, speaks with writer and researcher Xavier Nueno about how law and regulation intervene in the control of drones, self-driving cars, medical algorithms for treatment and diagnostic testing, and ChatGPT. The ...
Mercedes Bunz and Joan Fontcuberta
A cultural revolution
Mercedes Bunz, researcher in the fields of digital culture, and the photographer Joan Fontcuberta will speak with Alex Saum about artificial intelligence and artistic creation.
N. Katherine Hayles: “We need a more comprehensive view of cognition”
Katherine Hayles is one of the most relevant authors in the field of posthumanism. Her work places the focus on materiality and cognition and criticises the understanding of humans as autonomous and independent subjects. In the age of AI, her ideas lead us to a new vision of human evolution. Read ...
Prompt Battle
Talk by Sebastian Schmieg
Sebastian Schmieg, a Berlin-based artists who devises playful interventions to investigate the algorithmic circulation of images, texts and bodies, explains the origin of the prompt battle format and talks about the recent evolution of the realm of automatically generated images and its aesthetic and political implications.
Yuk Hui & Jorge Carrión
A revolution of ideas
In seeking to understand the transformations being brought about by artificial intelligence and how philosophy might interpret them, the writer and cultural critic Jorge Carrión will speak with the Hong Kong-born thinker, computer engineer, and one of today’s most influential philosophers of technology Yuk Hui.
Karina Gibert: "We have to guarantee that it AI is developed ethically"
The AI expert analyzes its risks and the collective responsibility in its development
Karina Gibert explains the risks of artificial intelligence on people's privacy and talks about the responsibility of experts, governments and users when interacting with artificial intelligence. Gibert is PhD in Computer Science specialising in artificial intelligence and big data, and Head ...
Talk- participative concert with Maria Arnal and an AI
In this performative talk, Maria Arnal will share with students the secrets of the training involved in “Maria CHOIR” ,an interactive installation in which a synthetic reproduction of Maria Arnal’s voice harmonizes in real time with what the visitors sing, forming a human-digital hybrid chorus that evolves in time.
Atia Cortés andi Ana Dueso-Barroso
Meeting with a scientist from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
After the visit to the Artificial Intelligence exhibition at the CCCB, the students of the Institut Tecnològic de Barcelona meet with a scientist from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Francesca Bria: "We need a democratic regulation of AI"
The digital policy expert analyses the AI Act
Francesca Bria is an economist, an expert in innovation and digital policies and one of the voices involved in the legislation surrounding artificial intelligence in Europe. As part of the exhibition “AI: Artificial Intelligence”, Bria explains in this interview the keys to understanding ...
María José Rementería andi Ana Dueso-Barroso
Meeting with a scientist from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
After the visit to the Artificial Intelligence exhibition at the CCCB, the students of the Institut Tecnològic de Barcelona meet with a scientist from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Josep Lluis Berral Garcia and Marina Prats
Meeting with a scientist from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
After the visit to the Artificial Intelligence exhibition at the CCCB, the students of the Institut Tecnològic de Barcelona meet with a scientist from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Maria Cristina Marinescu and Ana Dueso-Barroso
Meeting with a scientist from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
After the visit to the Artificial Intelligence exhibition at the CCCB, the students of the Institut Torrent de les Bruixes meet with a scientist from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Marta Garcia Gasulla and Ana Dueso-Barroso
Meeting with a scientist from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
After the visit to the Artificial Intelligence exhibition at the CCCB, the students of the Institut Tecnològic de Barcelona meet with a scientist from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Maria CHOIR
Performative talk by Maria Arnal
In this performative talk Singer Maria Arnal shares the secrets of the training and creation of the work “Maria CHOIR”, an artistic and musical piece made with AI, a synthetic reproduction of Maria Arnal’s voice that harmonizes in real time with what the public sings.
Ramon López de Mántaras
Can there be an ethical AI?
Societies around the world are drawing up ethical codes or frameworks to ensure that the development and uses of artificial intelligence are appropriate and beneficial for human beings. Ramon López de Mántaras, a pioneer of AI in Spain and Europe, explains why it is not possible ...
Algorithmic discriminations
Thao Phan, Scott Wark, Rocco Bellanova, Carlos Castillo, Adrián Arnaiz & Piera Riccio
From clustering technologies to racialised surveillance and profiling, new spatial divisions are emerging in the algorithmic society. How is AI discriminating among populations of people? What are the implications for categories of race, gender and sexuality?
Artificial governance
Fabian Offert, Antoinette Rouvroy, Till Straube & Marta Galceran
From the modelling of climate to the use of algorithms in law, AI is engendering new political orders. What are the consequences of algorithmic classification, vision, and modelling for the ways in which societies are governed?
A morning with Louise Amoore
Responsible Algorithms?
What will be the impact of the political use of algorithms? Louise Amoore analyses the biases and lack of transparency in the use of artificial intelligence and, accordingly, the new ethical paradigm that confronts us.. The session has a pedagogical dossier (in Catalan) to prepare and ...
Prediction and discovery
Nanna Bonde, Ludovico Rella, Alexander Campolo, Johannes Bruder & Marta Handernawer
From finding patterns in data to detection "predictive" features, the idea of discovering new things has been important in the rise of AI systems. What happens when machine learning algorithms "discover" the attributes of societies? What happens to the data features that are lost or discarded ...
Experimental worlds
Orit Halpern, Mercè Crosas and Benjamin Jacobsen
Machine learning technologies are giving rise to new forms of experimentation on data societies. How is our social fabric being remade and reshaped through experiments with algorithms?
A morning with Lluís Nacenta
AI and Creativity
On the occasion of the Artificial Intelligence exhibition at the CCCB, the researcher Lluís Nacenta describes some of the questions raised by artificial intelligence in the debate about creativity. The session has a pedagogical dossier (in Catalan) to prepare and to work on the ...
Did Calvino Dream of Literary Androids?
Carlos A. Scolari
The Italian writer explored the narrative as a combinatorial process and anticipated the functioning of generative artificial intelligence systems.
The double life of artificial intelligence
Marta Peirano
On automata, symbolic models, neural networks and machine learning: a brief history of AI.
First of all, how are the machines doing?
Ezequiel Soriano
Can we imagine machine creativity without falling into the trap of the modern idea of innovation and originality?
Lluís Nacenta and Ana Dueso-Barroso
The dilemmas of creative artificial intelligence
Is artificial intelligence actually intelligence? Why do we call it artificial? Can AI be creative? Opening lecture of the 2023-2024 ALIA's educational programme.
Artificial Emotion
Ferran Esteve
As the physical and digital worlds converge, new types of emotional relationships are emerging between humans and machines.
Mateo Valero, Alfonso Valencia, Karina Gibert and Jordi Torres
The paths of artificial intelligence
Thanks to advances in supercomputing, the development of new algorithms, and the availability of enormous quantities of data, the realm of artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding at an exponential rate. Four experts in the field of artificial intelligence discuss the potentialities of the ...