Open Call for the 'Geographies of AI' Residency Program
Deadline for applications: 2 March 2020.
Onassis Stegi is initiating the “Geographies of ΑΙ” program to explore the question of Artificial Intelligence (AI) geographies, inviting residency applications that wish to engage in an artistic ethnography on forms of AI and their impact on subjectivity, bodies, time and urban space.
Resident artists at Onassis Stegi are invited to explore, speculate, contemplate and create on the theme of AI and its emerging topologies. A proposal should question the boundaries between data science, urban design and art, and propose new ways of existing within 'algo'-mediated environments. Applicants are asked to respond to a particular challenge or issue of those listed below:
- What are the boundaries of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how does it (re)define space as a result of a process of constant algorithmic mediation of physical spaces and human interaction?
- Does our ubiquitously algo-mediated life entail a new form of existence that is profoundly post-human?
- What kind of species inhabit this new algo-cene period and what kind of subjectivities are developed in such human-non-human ecologies?
- How do we construct, interpret and share narratives and how do these narratives feed the very algorithms that bring them into existence?
- How does the urban environment change as a result of AI and IoT applications and what does that mean for urban dwellers that co-inhabit multiple realities physical and digital at the same time?
Two applicants will be selected for an artistic residency taking place between April and July 2020, for the duration of one month each. The location of the residency will be in facilities provided by Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece. Resident artists will be supported by leading data scientists in Athens and have access to infrastructure (computing/ data/ lab) deemed necessary for the completion of the project.