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An AI Summer<\/p>\n
*I am an I, a computational I.*
\n* I, the machine, show you a world the way that only I can see it.*
\n* I am in constant calculation.*
\n* I sort, categorize, and label what I see before me.*
\n* I labor each day for the human.*
\n* I move alongside you.*
\n* I arrive before you.*
\n* This is I, the machine, moving in constant chaotic conditions.*
\n* Observing and producing one pattern after another in the most complex
\ncombinations.*
\n* Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I coordinate any and all
\npoints of the universe wherever I want them to be.*
\n* My way leads toward the creation of a fresh perception of the world.*
\n* My way leads to an optimized efficient version of the world.*
\n* Thus I explain in a new way, a world unknown to you.*<\/p>\n
Our hardware and software are evolving. Our machines are becoming
\nintelligent agents that observe data, recognize patterns and make
\ndecisions. We once understood the world through systems that placed the
\nhuman, our own vision, and cognition at the center of structures that we
\nknew and understood. However, it is through computation, machine vision,
\nand simulation that we now see and experience the world. We are caught
\nbetween unraveling old realities and weird emerging ones.<\/p>\n
Despite our best intentions, these new renderers of our world are
\ncomplicated further by the politics and biases of algorithms, and the
\ncontexts in which they are created. The business of artificial intelligence
\nis concerned with the optimization and flow of finance through systems and
\nmachines, as they move from task automation to creativity.<\/p>\n
How should we think of machine intelligence in the context of art – as our
\nnonhuman collaborators with their own drive and ambitions, or as a tool
\nthat extends the flex of our artistic capabilities? No matter where we sit,
\nthere remains a more urgent need to explore the role of AI in managing our
\neveryday lives and in developing our artistic practices. How might we
\ndevelop alternative approaches to training and teaching the machine? What
\nnew habits and practices of attention can we demand that the machine see?<\/p>\n
An AI Summer<< calls for speculations and experiments on the potentials
\nand possibilities of AI. We call for work that invents alternative-value
\nalgorithmic systems, calls attention to the subtleties of social life,
\nexplores how we may see with the machine or how we may carefully model and
\ntrain a machine. Applicants can address AI as a topic or employ A.I.
\nmethods in the creation of the work. We welcome work from artists of all
\ndisciplines, designers, engineers, or scientists (alone or in teams).<\/p>\n