CAC联合系列讲座 | 人工生命、人工智能、艺术和转化的自然 第三期

CROSSLUCID is an art collective co-founded by Sylwana Zybura and Tomas C. Toth in Shanghai in 2018. They live and work in Berlin and engage in highly collaborative cross-cultural creative processes.
Their interdisciplinary practice encompasses moving image & film, photography, digital 3D techniques, poetic AI and experience-led interventions utilising world-building and experience design strategies. Based on extensive research into the nature of reality; spiritual practices understood through science; the network self or sexuality and intimacy in the digital age, they develop evolving projects often utilising the multi-layered techniques of collage, assemblage, visual essay and networked processes.

Interlacing archetypes and symbols, artificial intelligence and science fiction as well as mythologies from across time and place, they create scenarios and build experiential formats that instigate the prototyping and rehearsing of impending futures and progressing ‘metamodern’ values.
https://crosslucid.zone/

Shuyi CAO (b.1990, China) is a New York-based artist. Shuyi Cao’s practice explores alchemical approaches to object making and knowledge production. Her latest works seek models of reorienting a more-than-human world with intertwined social and ecological uncertainties. Interested in the complex relationship between geological, biological, and technological matters, she creates objects as physical manifestations of this dynamic material reality. They are speculative specimens and archeological fictions with reconfigured natural objects and hand-made artifacts, incorporating chemical and organic processes, moving images, and sound. Her sculptures synthesize multiple mediums including glass, ceramic, silicone, and resin, as well as digitally manipulated and fabricated artifacts. The assemblage suggests heterogeneous temporality, evoking transition and metamorphosis through both material and form.

https://www.shuyicao.com/

yiou penelope peng (oxi pëng | 彭憶歐), previously trained as a pianist and a scholar in cinema studies at smith college, university college of london, is now a phd. candidate at free university berlin for her research on the ‘touch’, ‘transformation’ and ‘interweaving’ among various non- and living beings in performative happenings. she attempts to embody a speculative performance analysis about plants, matter, cyborgs, spirits, aliens and non-definable entities from anthropocosmic perspectives.

yiou practices (embodied writing), creates (psychedelic poetry), and dreams (of pink tardigrade) softly.

http://www.yioupennypeng.com

Aiiiii Art Center (Est. 2021) is an artificial intelligence art institution based in Shanghai. The organisation seeks to support, promote, as well as incubate both international and domestic artists and projects related to intelligent algorithms. Aiiiii Art Center is committed to becoming a pioneer of artificial intelligence through the discovering of exciting possibilities afforded by the intersections of creativity and technology.

Aiiiii Art Center aims to offer insight into the many challenges, practices, and creative modes of artificial intelligence based art. Such aims will be achieved through academic conferences and published research efforts conducted either independently or in collaboration with domestic and international institutions and organisations. This organisation will also actively promote and showcase the exploratory uses of artificial intelligence based art in practice.

The Computational Media and Arts (CMA) Thrust of Information Hub comprises both art and technology, focusing on art creation and visual communication with advanced emerging technologies.

As an interdisciplinary program for computational and radical creativity, CMA brings together visionaries with backgrounds in art, design, science, and engineering to think critically, reach beyond convention and make innovation. Faculty and students work together across disciplines like art with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), AI-generated art, information art and design, and data visualization. Art creation and visual communication are carried out in the exchange and collision of art and tech with social impact for the public to understand and enrich their lives, environment, and communities.