Tutorials

Methods of interacting with computational systems for live artistic performance

Time and Location: Tuesday morning, June 28@Kolpinghaus Bolzano.

Description: Participants will explore artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for live artistic performance by experiencing this new form of co-creativity for themselves. The workshop organisers will share their learnings from staging AI in theatre performance, combining creative AI with theatre and comedy and thereby provide a playground for real-time computational co-creativity. Participants will learn about all kinds of co-creative technologies (e.g. language and translation models, image composition and generation models) that can be used today, play a couple of basic and safe improvisational theatre games, and experience what it is like to improvise alongside an AI for themselves. This tutorial centres around the growing use of interactive computation in artistic performance. We will present how to have fun with language models live before an audience, how improvements in image generation models fuel a new kind of interaction, and more generally, how the machine has become a performer to play alongside.

Organising Committee:
Kory Mathewson, DeepMind, Canada,
Thomas Winters, KU Leuven, Belgium,
Piotr Mirowski, DeepMind, UK,
Boyd Branch, Coventry University, UK.

Website: https://artisantelligence.com

Quantum Computing for Computational Creativity

Time and Location: Monday, full-day, June 27@Kolpinghaus Bolzano.

Description:

The Quantum Computing for Computational Creativity Workshop aims to understand the principles of quantum computing and how it leads to a different system of creative thinking than classical computing.
The objective is to create and experiment with functions that rely on the superposition of states, data entanglement and quantum gates.
What can we create differently with quantum tools?
Plan:
– Introduction on Quantum Computing
– Introduction on Blender 3D Software
– Installation of Quantum Nodes
– Making simple Quantum Circuits with Quantum Nodes
– Making 3D creations with Quantum Nodes (Shaders / Modeling / Animations, etc.)
– Discussion : How can we become more creative with this kind of tool ?

Organiser:
Alain Lioret, ESGI Digital Lab, Paris, France.
Website: https://quantum-nodes.com/