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Center of Music, Coding and Sound Design proudly presents:

AI Meetup #03

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16/01/2024 // 19u30 - 22u00
Location: Nieuwewijkstraat 1, 9000 Gent (Be)
Doors: 19u30
Maximum number of participants: 14
Tickets/registration: via this Eventbrite link or email to aW5mbyB8IHZhbGVyeXZlcm1ldWxlbiAhIG5ldA==

Cost of ticket: free

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The AI meetup series is an informal meeting event to discuss, present and challenge various topics in the rapidly expanding field of AI and related domains. The meetups are intended both for enthusiasts, artists, creative minds as well as professionals, researchers working with and/or in AI.

During these meetups we offer participants to present a specific topic, use case, work in progress where AI plays a central role. The meetups are free to join but registration is required. If you would like to present a certain topic let us know beforehand via aW5mbyB8IHZhbGVyeXZlcm1ldWxlbiAhIG5ldA== and we'll go over the practical details such as timing and duration of your presentation.

For the third meetup we are thrilled to host a presentation by artist/researcher Jerry Galle in whose work AI plays a central role.

Jerry Galle’s work is all about the sometimes difficult relationship between digital technology and contemporary culture. He uses recent software and digital imagery in an unconventional way and stresses the role of technology in our daily life and artistic creation. His work explores the way how technological images and texts can produce new meaning. For Galle these ‘techno-texts’ and ‘techno-images’ can be geometrical or symbolic, playful or dead serious.

Digital doubt plays an important role in his work. He encounters this theme by the binary structure of the computer, meaning the 0 and the 1, the ‘yes’ and the ‘no’ of our contemporary technology. In a society where doubt is considered to be an unproductive quality, technology with its compulsive efficiency, has a pervasive effect on our social behaviour. But when digital doubt is injected into a computer system, strange things happen.

Recently Galle explores the use of language that is co-created with artificially intelligent algorithms. The mediation of the world through ever circulating and replicating texts that are both bot and human generated, have had a dramatic impact on conceptions of politics, culture, economics and language itself.

His work has been shown in Muhka, Bozar, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, British Film Institute, Wiels, International Film Festival Rotterdam, EMAF, International Film Festival Hamburg, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ars Electronica among others.

More info: https://jerrygalle.com/