During a two days symposium taking place at Bozar, we invite you to focus on the future of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on our living environment, cities, communities, and culture – a future in which AI will become “our nearest neighbour”. Curated by Jurij Krpan and Pau Waelder, this event will bring together researchers, entrepreneurs, creatives and artists, who will share their expertise on AI in Europe, addressing topics such as AI and creativity in the arts, and the future of living with AI.

Over the two days of the conference, we will host in parallel, and for the first time at Bozar, a hackathon entitled “Hack-à-deux”, on the theme Living with AI, our nearest neighbour. The hackathon is a creative marathon, in which two artists will be paired with three researchers, scientists, engineers or curators to answer a specific challenge dealing with the future of our life with AI in no more than 48 hours. The results of the hackathon will be presented to the public at the end of the symposium during the last panel. 
“Hack-à-deux” with  Dries Depoorter, Laura Colmenares Guerra, Alex Verhaest, Bohdana Kohorod, Kristjan Jansen and Guillem Alenyà.

Full programme & tickets for Day 1 
https://www.bozar.be/en/calendar/future-living-day-1
Full programme & tickets for Day 2 
https://www.bozar.be/en/calendar/future-living-day-2

Not able to come to Brussels on 19 + 20 Oct.’21?
We will be live-streaming the symposium via Zoom.
Please register in advance to obtain the Zoom-link. 
Registration for the live-streaming of Day 1: 
https://bit.ly/TFOL-Zoom-Day1
Registration for the live-streaming of Day 2: 
https://bit.ly/TFOL-Zoom-Day2

​​​​Find out more about the Future of Living and start interacting with the AI.
https://www.thefutureofliving.eu/

David Bowen blends science, art, and data gathered from nature to create kinetic and robotic sculptures, made from natural and manufactured materials. Two large installations of kinetic sculptures will be exhibited at MMAM, based on collected sea floor and wave data Bowen recorded during a journey aboard the Schmitt Ocean Institute research vessel Falkor, which sailed from Portland, OR to Honolulu, HI in 2019. Bowen is an associate professor of Sculpture and Physical Computing at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

the journey - During this journey aboard Research Vessel Falkor, a wide swath of seafloor was scanned using a sophisticated onboard multi-beam sonar depth sensor. The data gathered from the entire journey is converted to an 3D model surfaces of the seafloor underneath the vessel as it transited the Pacific Ocean.
For the installation, these 3D models are carved into individual sections of clear acrylic and set end to end recreating an approximately 25-foot scaled installation of the 2500-mile transit in the gallery space. An RGB led strip installed in the bottom of the acrylic sections and programmed to illuminate a section of the journey chasing across the gallery space. This recreates a sense of movement illustrating the vessels journey across the Pacific Ocean as it scanned the seafloor.

wilderness - Three disposable plastic shopping bags playfully dance in the gallery space articulated by wave data collected on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean.
While in the middle of the enormous ocean, at times, it felt this place was completely untouched by human activities. This delusion was destroyed by the occasional piece of human made debris floating in this vast wilderness. Using an on-board accelerometer, every movement of the ship caused by wave action was collected during the entire journey. This XYZ movement data is directly mapped to the movements of the bags floating in the gallery space creating the effect that the bags are suspended in waves of the Pacific.

https://www.dwbowen.com/
https://www.mmam.org/david-bowen