We are thrilled to invite you to Assembling Intelligence: Alternative Perspectives on AI through Art and Design, a multidisciplinary symposium organized by HEAD – Genève (HES-SO).

A series of talks, workshops, and performances will bring attention to overlooked intellectual histories of AI, explore intersections between popular culture and human-machine intimacy and look at open software as means for creative emancipation. The symposium will also highlight diverse futures for our damaged planet by extrapolating from the material and environmental underpinnings of AI infrastructures.

More information and detailed program on the dedicated website: www.assembling-intelligence.ch.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT (2022), initially started as a not-for-profit but rapidly turned to commercial AI tools. Along with other companies, OpenAI is set to trigger another peak in Silicon Valley culture characterized by large-scale, profit-driven software development, exerting monopolized influence over ethical and regulatory guidelines and obfuscating their algorithms to avoid early competition. In response to these dynamics, we will look at open source art and design movements, pedagogical AI toolkits, and the potential for tiny datasets to challenge data-hungry approaches. How can open knowledge sharing empower creative processes and aesthetics to diverge from mainstream AIs?

Talk given for Topic 3: Creative Emancipation through Open Software; moderated by Vytas Jankauskas.

• https://www.assembling-intelligence.ch/