AI Research Directory, 2020 - present

Christiane Paul

Exhibitions 

Artificial Intelligence – Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (September 7-11, 2017);

 Artificial Intelligence - The Other I / Gerfried Stocker - YouTube Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, (September 7-11, 2017) (Video published April 6th, 2017) 


The Policeman´s Beard is Half Constructed: Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (September 22 – November 19, 2017)                                                           

 Catalogue: http://www.bonner-kunstverein.de/en/bookshop/the-policemans-beard-is-half-constructed-art-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/


Paradox: Art in the Age of AI Carnegie Mellon University School of Art, Miller ICA, Purnell Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, USA  (October 4, 2018-February 3, 2019) 


Forging the Gods ::: Curated by Julia Kaganskiy | TRANSFER Transfer Gallery, New York, United States (April 18 -May 11, 2019) (Hyperallergic review: Artificial Intelligence as a Godlike Tool for Experimentation)


HeK - Entangled Realities – Living with Artificial Intelligence House of Electronic Arts Basel, Münchenstein, Switzerland (May 9 – August 11, 2019)  (Sabine Himmelsbach interview, Medium)


AI: More than Human | Barbican Barbican, London, England (May 16 — Aug 26 2019)

Catalogue: https://shop.barbican.org.uk/products/ai-more-than-human-exhibition-catalogue?utm_source=website&campaign=products


ART-AI Festival  Art-AI Festival, Leicester, England (May 16-31, 2019) 


Uncanny Values. Artificial Intelligence & You, curated by Marlies Wirth and Paul Feigelfeld, Vienna Biennale for Change 2019, MAK-Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (May 29 - October 6, 2019)


Training Humans, curated by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen, Fondazione Prada, Milan (September 12 2019 - February 24, 2020)


AS-Helix: The Integration of Art and Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,  National Museum of China, Beijing, China  (November  2019)  


Manual Override  The Shed, New York, USA (November 13, 2019- January 12, 2020) 


In Real Life, curated by Natasha Egan, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (January 16 - March 22, 2020)


GANland, DAM Gallery, Berlin (February 1 - March 31, 2020)


The Question of Intelligence, curated by Christiane Paul, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, The New School (February 7 - April 8, 2020)


Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, curated by Claudia Schmuckli, de Young museum, San Francisco (February 22 - October 25, 2020)


Twilight of the Idols — Art and AI as Aesthetic Discourse in the Age of Trans- and Posthumanism, curated by Berkan Karpat, Dr. Cornelia Oßwald-Hoffmann , Rainer Ludwig, Haus der Kunst, Munique (September 24 - October 1, 2020)

ZKM, The Intelligent Museum (2020 - 2024)

Ian Cheng, Life after Bob, The Shed, NYC (September 10 - December 19, 2021)

Deep Fakes - Art and its Double, EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne, Switzerland (September 17, 2021 - February 6, 2022)

AI, Ethics and Health, Science Gallery London (open call closed)

Deepfakes: Unstable Evidence on Screen, Museum of the Moving Image, NYC (December 18, 2021 - May 15, 2022), Hyperallergic Review

Projects 

ZKM, The Intelligent Museum (2020 - 2024)

2022

Zach Blas, 576 Tears

2023

Christopher Manzione, A Universe Within Itself

Conferences 

The Rise of A.I. and Machine Learning – NYU Center for Data Science Association for Computing Machinery,  New York, USA (December 8, 2016) 

Future Labs AI Summit 2017 NYU/Future Labs, New York, USA (October 30-31, 2017)

MoMA R&D | Salon 24: AI - Artificial Imperfection Moma, New York, USA   (April 3rd, 2018)

Symposium - Paradox: Frames and Biases in Art and AI on Vimeo  Miller ICA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA (January 28, 2019)

The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence :: DISK Agency Art Laboratory Berlin/CTM, Berlin, Germany (March 13, 2019) 

 An[0]ther {AI} in Art Summit New Museum, New York, USA (April 24th - April 27th, 2019)

Kunst und Künstliche Intelligenz  ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (May 18-19, 2019)

Is AI the Future of Art? National Arts Club, New York, USA (May 30, 2019)

AI Traps - Automating Discrimination Kunstquartier Disruption Network Lab, Berlin, Germany (June 14-15, 2019) 

Christie's Art + Tech Summit: AI Revolution Christie's, New York, USA (June 25, 2019) 

Readings 

Books

James Bridle, Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence, Macmillan, 2022

[Directories]

An open P2P Resource for AI technology (Marc Garrett)

[Documentaries]

The History of Artificial Intelligence

Aesthetics

Aesthetics of AI Entanglements - Serpentine Reader

Art

The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence :: CTM Berlin - Festival for Adventurous Music and Art

Has Artificial Intelligence Given Us the Next Great Art Movement? Experts Say Slow Down, the 'Field Is in Its Infancy'

Predicting Mark Rothko Auction Prices with AI - Artsy

The first piece of AI-generated art to come to auction | Christie's

American Artist’s Ally AI Is a Satirical Siri to Check White People’s Biases - Artsy

Harold Cohen and AARON—A 40-Year Collaboration | @CHM Blog | Computer History Museum

Harold Cohen, A Pioneer of Computer Art - NY Times

AI Evolved Creepy Images to Please a Monkey Brain - The Atlantic

Ahmed Elgammal

Seeing, Naming, Knowing – The Brooklyn Rail

Using Neural Networks to Create Paintings - Medium

AI and Documentary: Defining Our Terms - Medium

Casey Reas Interview - Studio International

Memo Akten Interview - Clash Music

Gabriel Pereira and Bruno Moreschi, Ways of Seeing with Computer Vision:  Artificial Intelligence and Institutional Critique - MediArXiv

AI, Arts & Design - Artnodes issue 26

The Firewall Next Time: Belief, Power, and AI - Flash Art

Why Do AI-Generated Portraits Fail at Realism? - Hyperallergic

Amelia Winger-Bearskin - Medium


Sarah Cascone, ‘They Are About Capturing the Process of Merging’: How Artist WangShui Collaborated With A.I. to Make Paintings for the Whitney Biennial - Artnet News


Bias

The Algorithms Aren’t Biased, We Are – MIT MEDIA LAB – Medium

This Is How A.I. Bias Really Happens — and Why It’s so Hard to Fix

American Artist’s Ally AI Is a Satirical Siri to Check White People’s Biases - Artsy

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Seeing, Naming, Knowing – The Brooklyn Rail

Never Mind Killer Robots—Here Are 6 Real A.I. Dangers to Watch Out for in 2019

Amazon Is Pushing Facial Technology That a Study Says Could Be Biased NY Times

How Racial Bias in Tech Has Developed the “New Jim Code" - Hyperallergic

Behind the Paper That Led to a Google Researcher’s Firing - Wired

Who is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Aren't Racist - NY Times

Designing  AI: The Feminist Way - Libre AI

Coding

Building a Simple Chatbot from Scratch in Python (using NLTK)

A Guide to Decision Trees for Machine Learning and Data Science

Every single Machine Learning course on the internet, ranked by your reviews

To all Data Scientists — The one Graph Algorithm you need to know

Understanding the Difference Between Symbolic and Non-Symbolic AI -  Analytics India Mag

Colonialism

Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order - MIT Technology Review

Covid

A.I. Versus the Coronavirus - NY Times

How A.I. Steered Doctors Toward a Possible Coronavirus Treatment - NY Times

Dangers

Never Mind Killer Robots—Here Are 6 Real A.I. Dangers to Watch Out for in 2019

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Why You Shouldn’t Fear The AI Takeover – Data Driven Investor – Medium

Fears of OpenAI’s super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown - New Scientist

Creating AI can be five times worse for the planet than a car - New Scientist

The Threat of Google's DeepMind - Medium

How We Might Protect Ourselves from Malicious AI - MIT Technology Review

Is it Time to Panic About American Ignorance of Deep Learning - Medium

Cade Metz, ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead - The New York Times

Deepfakes

Is that video real? - CNN

Photos of Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie and others come alive (creepily), thanks to AI

(MyHeritage) - Life Science

Ecology

Earth Species Project

Ethics

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Why You Shouldn’t Fear The AI Takeover – Data Driven Investor – Medium

The Museums + AI Network – Developing the conversation around AI, ethics and museums.

An introduction to explainable AI, and why we need it

This Company Is Betting the Future Is Personal AI Avatars, So It Made Me One

Seeing, Naming, Knowing – The Brooklyn Rail

Never Mind Killer Robots—Here Are 6 Real A.I. Dangers to Watch Out for in 2019

Film

William Uricchio, AI and Documentary: Defining Our Terms  -  Medium

Future (Predictions)

America May Outsmart China in 5G With AI and Blockchains

Why You Shouldn’t Fear The AI Takeover – Data Driven Investor – Medium

Why Robots Will Never Take Over the World – Member Feature Stories – Medium

Never Mind Killer Robots—Here Are 6 Real A.I. Dangers to Watch Out for in 2019

In Ten Years: The Future of AI and ML – Foursquare – Medium

Will an A.I. Ever Become Sentient? – Predict – Medium

This Company Is Betting the Future Is Personal AI Avatars, So It Made Me One

Here Are 27 Expert Predictions on How You’ll Live With Artificial Intelligence in the Near Future

GANs

What Are GANs? | Manning

GAN — Ways to improve GAN performance – Towards Data Science

Comprehensive Introduction to Turing Learning and GANs: Part 1

GANs and NFTs — Brian Droitcour, Art in America

General

AI Knowledge Map: how to classify AI technologies – Francesco Corea – Medium

2018 in Review: 10 AI Failures – SyncedReview – Medium

Every single Machine Learning course on the internet, ranked by your reviews

AI Evolved Creepy Images to Please a Monkey Brain - The Atlantic

America May Outsmart China in 5G With AI and Blockchains

Five Machine Learning Paradoxes that will Change the Way You Think About Data

Distributed Artificial Intelligence – Francesco Corea – Medium

Symbolic AI v/s Non-Symbolic AI, and everything in between?

To all Data Scientists — The one Graph Algorithm you need to know

Top 10 roles in AI and data science – Hacker Noon

Machine Learning for Humans, Part 5: Reinforcement Learning

On the Potential & Limits of AI — The Facts Beneath the Hype

No, Machine Learning is not just glorified Statistics

Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence creates realistic speech with little training - Medium

Machines and Media Episode 1: AI & Emerging Trends in Media Technology - NYC Media Lab

Future Art Ecosystems (Serpentine Galleries)

AI.. Here, There , Everywhere, - The New York Times

Why Machines Will Never Feel Empathy: A Q&A With MIT’s Sherry Turkle - OneZero

Eleni Nisioti, 2021 in Review: What Just Happened in the World of Artificial Intelligence? - Medium

GPT

Fawad Ali, GPT-1 to GPT-4: Each of OpenAI's GPT Models Explained and Compared - Makeusof.com

Aahtish Bathia, Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Nothing But - The New York Times

History

A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

Going Deeper: A History of Idea in AI Research

Knowledge

The Nooscope Manifested: AI as Instrument of Knowledge Extractivism

Labor

Why You Shouldn’t Fear The AI Takeover – Data Driven Investor – Medium

A Machine May not Take Your Job but One Could Become Your Boss - NY Times

Hyperemployment — Post-work, Online Labour and Automation  - NERO and Aksioma

Law

Frank Pasquale, Gianclaudio Malgieri, If You Don’t Trust A.I. Yet, You’re Not Wrong - NY Times


Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL LAYING DOWN HARMONISED RULES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACT) AND AMENDING CERTAIN UNION LEGISLATIVE ACTS - COM/2021/206 final

MIT Technology Review, 5 Big Takeaways from Europe's AI Act


The White House, Blue Print for an AI BIll of Rights


Ezra Klein, The Surprising Thing A.I. Engineers Will Tell You if You Let Them - NY Times (evaluation of US / EU proposals)


Algorithmic Impact Assessment Tool - Government of Canada

Literature / Text

Nathan Allen Jones, Looking for the Pre-Emergent Social Consciousness of AI in Small Data Literary Synthesis

Vlad Alex, DALL·E by OpenAI: Creating Images from Text - towards data science

Steven Johnson, AI Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - NY Times

Emily Bender, On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to Be Impressed

Mark Amerika Presents, AI Issue on Outland

Patrick Lichty, Artificial Art in the Contemporary, A Conversation Between Patrick Lichty and GPT3

Museums

The Museums + AI Network – Developing the conversation around AI, ethics and museums.

IRIS+ Part One: Designing + Coding a Museum AI

IRIS+ Part Two: How to Embed a Museum’s Personality and Values in AI

MET / MIT / Microsoft Collaboration

Gabriel Pereira, Bruno Moreschi, Ways of Seeing with Computer Vision: Artificial Intelligence and Institutional Critique

Harold Cohen and AARON—A 40-Year Collaboration | @CHM Blog | Computer History Museum

Rembrandt’s Damaged Masterpiece Is Whole Again, With A.I.’s Help - NY Times

How Can AI Have A Bigger Impact Within Cultural Institutions? - Jing Culture and Commerce


Politics

Excavating AI - The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets (Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen)

America May Outsmart China in 5G With AI and Blockchains

Why You Shouldn’t Fear The AI Takeover – Data Driven Investor – Medium

Never Mind Killer Robots—Here Are 6 Real A.I. Dangers to Watch Out for in 2019

Hito Steyerl, A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition, e-flux

Podcasts

K Allado McDowell, Deepfake Auto-Fiction, Informer

The Ezra Klein Show, Inside the Minds of Spiders, Octopuses and Artificial Intelligence

AI: A Cognitive Scientist's Warning, with John Vervaeke, Ryan Barker and Eric Foster