AI ETHICS AND PROSTHETICS

#Workshops (Adults)
Sun.21 / 16:00 - 18:00
4th Floor

The advance of research in artificial intelligence (AI) is today more rapid than ever. Governmental and academic institutions are only beginning to respond to the ethical issues posed by increasingly ubiquitous and proactive AIs. Corporations and startups, on the other hand, relentlessly focus on creating AI capable of drastically changing human activities: from everyday routines and law enforcement to medical diagnosis and warfare.

In this workshop we focus on the radical and, as of now, underestimated potential of AI to change human bodily experience. It is a critical thinking workshop where we begin with the question “Would you live with an autonomous prosthesis?” Using speculative methods and critical conversations, we discuss the ethics of AI in relation to future intelligent machines that do not only live with us, but on and within us. What forms of bodily experience will emerge? Who will own the algorithms and the data driving these new prosthesis? Will prosthetic devices become more appealing to those who do not necessarily need one? Will they become more useful for those in real need?

The workshop is open to anyone with any background and expertise level. An artistic and/or scientific background can be useful, but it is not at all a requirement.  The most diverse the participants group the most exciting and fruitful the discussion.

 

Maximum number of participants: 20

Free admission, please note limited spaces available.

To reserve a place, please email workshops@adaf.gr including the following details:

  • Name of workshop you wish to attend
  • Name/Surname
  • Contact number
  • Number of participants

 

INSTRUCTOR

Marco Donnarumma (IT)

Born in Naples, Italy, 1984. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

A unique presence across contemporary performance and media art, Marco Donnarumma distinguishes himself by his use of emerging technology to deliver artworks that are at once intimate and powerful, oneiric and uncompromising, sensual and confrontational. Working with biotechnology, biophysical sensing, as well as artificial intelligence and neurorobotics, Donnarumma expresses the chimerical nature of the body with a new and unsettling intensity. He is renown for his focus on sound, whose physicality and depth he exploits to create experiences of instability, awe, shock and entrainment.

In over a decade of practice Donnarumma has developed a deeply transdisciplinary expertise, drawing equally from live art, music, biological science, computation and cultural studies. He holds a Ph.D. in performing arts, computing and body theory from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is currently a Research Fellow at the Berlin University of the Arts in partnership with the Neurorobotics Research Lab Berlin. His writings on body, music, technology and performance studies are published by MIT Press, Oxford University Press and Springer.

The workshop is part of Donnarumma’s 2-year Research Fellowship at Berlin University of the Arts, in partnership with the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory at Beuth-Hochschule für Technik Berlin, 2016-2018.

 

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