All Access Workshops | Origin of Thought Assembly
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Day 01Archealogy of AI: An Exercise in Time Travel & Aesthetic Forgery by Ram SurendranEvery medium develops a signature look that emerges from its limitations rather than its capabilities: early film’s iris transitions, vinyl’s crackle, VHS tracking lines, JPEG compression. How will an artist in the future try to recreate the look of “early AI” the way we today recreate VHS or vinyl?
Day 02The Sentiment Machine: Using machine intelligence to turn opinions into art by Dennis Peter4 - 7 PM. The internet is loud and polarized. Using AI and political tweet datasets, this workshop uncovers hidden patterns in public sentiment while teaching participants to build interactive visualizations and creatively collaborate with code.
Day 03Bodies, vision, and new tangibilities by Dhruv SaxenaWhat does a recorded body still carry? A dancer captured on film in 1910, a protester marching through a city square, a child learning sign language: these recordings hold movements that have not yet finished meaning. This workshop is an invitation to find out what happens when we give those movements somewhere new to go. Over three days, participants (artists, technologists, curious people from either direction) work through a shared pipeline built in TouchDesigner, using tools including MediaPipe, YOLO, GPT, and Teachable Machine. No prior experience with these tools is required. Willingness and curiosity will be enough. We begin with an archive. A curated collection of open-source video footage of human movement: dance performances, protests, sign language practice sessions, folk rituals, athletic training. This archive is our common ground. Participants are encouraged to contribute to it, with the condition that additions carry open licenses that allow creative reuse. Before any code is written or any pipeline is opened, we sit with a question: what does it mean to take this footage, to process it, to make something from it, and then to call that something our own? The ethics of archival reuse, of training data, of whose bodies we are working with and why.
Day 02The Sentiment Machine: Using machine intelligence to turn opinions into art by Dennis Peter4 - 7 PM. The internet is loud and polarized. Using AI and political tweet datasets, this workshop uncovers hidden patterns in public sentiment while teaching participants to build interactive visualizations and creatively collaborate with code.
Day 03Bodies, vision, and new tangibilities by Dhruv SaxenaWhat does a recorded body still carry? A dancer captured on film in 1910, a protester marching through a city square, a child learning sign language: these recordings hold movements that have not yet finished meaning. This workshop is an invitation to find out what happens when we give those movements somewhere new to go. Over three days, participants (artists, technologists, curious people from either direction) work through a shared pipeline built in TouchDesigner, using tools including MediaPipe, YOLO, GPT, and Teachable Machine. No prior experience with these tools is required. Willingness and curiosity will be enough. We begin with an archive. A curated collection of open-source video footage of human movement: dance performances, protests, sign language practice sessions, folk rituals, athletic training. This archive is our common ground. Participants are encouraged to contribute to it, with the condition that additions carry open licenses that allow creative reuse. Before any code is written or any pipeline is opened, we sit with a question: what does it mean to take this footage, to process it, to make something from it, and then to call that something our own? The ethics of archival reuse, of training data, of whose bodies we are working with and why.
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Imaginative Intelligences with G5A: The Origin of Thought brings together technologists and cultural practitioners to reflect, learn, and inquire into the evolving relationship between humans and artificial intelligence, and the futures we are shaping.
The initiative is in partnership with the Mozilla Foundation and the Berggruen Institute.
