
The ZKM | Hertz-Lab will be hosting this year's edition of the »inSonic« Festival, examining the shifts, transitions and expansions which take place in the field of music and sound art.
The »inSonic« Festival will explore the new formats and artistic practices, including but not limited to the use of disruptive technologies, like »Machine Learning« or concepts such as »Extended Reality«, whose development gives rise to the shifts, transitions and expansions in in the field of music and sound art.
The festival will be held as a wide streaming-edition including lightning talks, panel discussions, artistic performances and live-concerts within which new pieces by, among others, Giulia Vismara, Aaron Einbond, Quadrature among others will premiere. The notion of Syntheses delineates the attempt to describe this diversity of heterogenous artistic and academic stances, which will not only be represented but also meaningfully connected with each other in the course of the festival. This productive way of merging international and interdisciplinary expertise takes place in cooperation with the European Art-Science-Technology Network for Digital Creativity (EASTN-DC).
By means of two panel discussions the Hertz-Lab puts a strong emphasis on the artistic use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the sphere of music and sound art. The conversation will focus on the comparison between innovative tools which shape the work of today’s sound artists and musicians and the creative practices used by early pioneers in the domain of computer music. The overarching question will be, whether and how the artistic desideratum and the particular (technological) challenges have changed over the years and how they will look like in the future.
Program
Friday, 11.12.2020
4 pm–7 pm Symposium Session I (Moderation: Yannick Hofmann)
Ludger Brümmer: Introduction
Ionian University, Corfu (GR)
Saturday, 12.12.2020
4 pm–6 pm Symposium Session II (Moderation: Cecilia Preiß)
6 pm–8 pm Panel-Discussion I: Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence
Sunday, 13.12.2020
4 pm–6 pm Symposium Session III (Moderation: Yannick Hofmann)
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- Disruptive Future Technologies
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- Ludger Brümmer, Dan Wilcox and Pierre Ritt (Hertz-Labor) »Zirkonium«
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- Stephan Henrich, Hasan Mashni »Okkulte Robotique – Séance AI«
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- Quadrature »So Far the Skies Are Silent – Artistic Installations and Performances with Radio Telescopes and Neural Networks«
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- Alexander Schubert »Parallel Networks of Altered Truths«
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- Iannis Zannos »Contrasts-Tokyo Walks: Machines, People, Insects« (interactive)
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6 pm–8 pm Panel-Discussion II: Artificial Neural Networks
- Website
- The event via live stream
- Project Team
ZKM | Hertz-Lab
Ludger Brümmer, Yannick Hofmann
Curation & ModerationCecilia Preiß
Event Organisation, Editing & ModerationDominik Kautz
Event Organisation & ProductionBenjamin Miller
Sound DirectionHans Gass
Light & Event TechnicianZKM | Video Studio
Peter Müller
Visual Director & Live EditingTim Wenz
Live Editing & Additional Footage EditingXenia Leidig
Graphic ArtChristina Zartmann, Andy Koch, Jule Heinzmann
Additional Footage EditingZKM | Communication & Marketing
Dominika Szope
Head of ZKM | Communication & MarketingLena Becker, Sabine Jäger, Lena Schneider
Website and CommunicationAdrian Koop
Marketing- Organization / Institution
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
- Partners
The »inSonic 2020: Syntheses« festival takes place within the frame of the project EASTN-DC, co-funded by the »Creative Europe Programme« of the European Union.