Performing Critical AI - 27 and 29 November 2022

 

Performing Critical AI I: feedback, noise, corpus, code

Live coding algorithms, ensemble improvisation, biologically-inspired feedback systems, corpus hacking.

Sunday 27th November, 2pm **matinee**
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, London E8 3DL, UK
Event info: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/peforming-critical-ai-i/

Attached to the European Research Council-funded project Music and AI: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Studies led by Georgina Born, this is the first of two concerts showcasing artist-researchers experimenting with AI and complex systems models.

Artists:

• Feedback Cell (Chris Kiefer and Alice Eldridge) featuring Ollie Bown
• Anna Xambó
• P.A. Tremblay and Owen Green

The performances will be followed by open Q & A and discussion with the artists about how and why they are using AI/machine learning.

Performing Critical AI II: body, space, action, agency

Prepared piano, handmade percussion, new compositions, and electronic improvisations situating AI with the listener in a unique 3D sound environment. Including new works by Aaron Einbond and Artemi-Maria Gioti. 

Tuesday 29th November, 8pm
Iklectik, 'Old Paradise Yard ' 20 Carlisle Ln, Royal Street corner, Archbishop's park, Lambeth, London SE1 7LG, UK
Event info: https://iklectikartlab.com/performing-critical-ai-ii-body-space-action-agency/

This is the second of the two concerts linked to the European Research Council-funded project Music and AI: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Studies.

Artists:

• Xenia Pestova
• Maxime Echardour
• Christopher Haworth
• Sound-Image Research Group, University of Greenwich

Symposium Technoscientific Practices of Music - Helsinki 11 November 2022

 The symposium Technoscientific Practices of Music; New Technologies, Instruments and Agents is taking place on 11th November 2022 and will discuss the new music technologies as a process / practice / relationship that involves social and technoscientific transformations in view of music, science, philosophy, community of people, non-humans and life-world as a whole. It is not anymore a myth or urban legend, advanced AI technologies do challenge current practices of creative practitioners and offer a new perspective that redefines the relation between humans and AI. What does this say about the nature of AI and its ability to be part of the mutual incorporation? What “social connections” these AI creative agents build up in music practices, which leads to emerging aesthetics and meanings to appear that would not have been possible otherwise.

The invited speakers are:

Adnan Marquez Borbon (Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico)
Georgina Born (University College London)
Rebecca Fiebrink (University of the Arts London)
Owen Green (University of Huddersfield)
Michael Gurevich (University of Michigan)
Laurens van der Heijden (University of Twente)
Anna Xambó Sedó (De Montfort University)
Koray Tahiroğlu (Aalto University)

The full programme can be found here.