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What about the trouble that might happen as a result of breaking through?

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What about the trouble that might happen as a result of breaking through?

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Add an AI generated image using the "I can't draw" tool

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Add an AI generated image using the "I can't draw" tool

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Examples of types of posts you can make:

text

.gif or image

free draw

audio or video recording

AI Image Generator called " I can't Draw"

Drop in a hyperlink

youtube video

Spotify song

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What rewards might breaking through this window bring?

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What rewards might breaking through this window bring?

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the massive movement of the water could be used as energy. Allowing us to pass through the window and power our new beginnings! 🧨🌈🌈

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the massive movement of the water could be used as energy. Allowing us to pass through the window and power our new beginnings! 🧨🌈🌈

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add a gif or picture using the GIF tool or Web Search

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add a gif or picture using the GIF tool or Web Search

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Unfulfilled AI prompt: Casper reads about Derrida’s conception of the spectre on a Kindle

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Unfulfilled AI prompt: Casper reads about Derrida’s conception of the spectre on a Kindle

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Bolstering big ideas and untapped potential in the arts into exceptional, everyday shared realities on-the-ground and in-the-cloud.

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Culture for what's coming.

Our work combines cultural research and prototyping with immersive compelling experiences for audiences and the public. Our research looks into the role of culture in dealing with present and future technological, social, and ecological volatility. Our artistic interventions and infrastructure offer a sense of wonder and mystery in a range of contexts both online and offline. We show possible futures so that we might find ways of stepping into them.

UKAI Projects is a trusted partner for organizations looking to leverage technology in new and surprising ways.

From our inception in 2017, we have grown through commissions and co-productions with partners in both the arts and elsewhere.

AI Ritual is an immersive performance work driven by a large language model (LLM) that was trained by UKAI. A co-production with STO Union, the work was initially presented at the Spy on Me festival at Hebbel am ufer (HAU1) in Berlin in September 2022 and at Out Loud! in Wakefield, PQ in November 2022.

AI Ritual is available for touring or installation. Contact us for more information.

Carnival of Algorithmic Culture

June 23 & 24, 2023

Carnival is humour and chaos. Carnival is body, place, and reversal.

featuring experimental performances, installations, talks, and workshops

Tributaries is a modular installation inspired by water and movement. The output is performative and reconfigurable, ranging from VR experienced in the forest to large scale projections, online experiences and audio-visual performance.

Dan Tapper is one of the 3 residents of Intelligent Terrain residency in 2022.

For Intelligent Terrain, Noelle Perdue turned data mapping technology (used to auto-moderate online content) against itself , creating a series of images and objects generated to disgust software systems worldwide, ideally resulting in her permanent exile from the Metaverse and ultimate freedom.

Noelle Perdue is one of the 3 residents of Intelligent Terrain residency in 2022.

Nature is made out of an infinite number of patterns that humans are studying from the beginning for building their civilization based on them. This project is research-based in which studying natural patterns, extracting mathematical order, collecting data, and turning them into visuals are key points.

Hooria Rahimi is one of the 3 residents of Intelligent Terrain residency in 2022.

GROUND is a tabletop role-playing game about a strange entity that wants to be remembered, or perhaps left alone.

GROUND is played with other people and each of you will play a 'role' based on an idea that has been remembered: beauty, rage, body, faith, knowledge, green, or disorder.

GROUND grows the more you play it. At first it's just you and your group. Then there is the Oracle, made of language and wires. Then the goat. The less said about the goat, the better. Then there is the cave, and the world, and the rituals we bring to make a home in it.

Please Don't Understand This invited creators in communities closest to the impacts of algorithmic culture to imagine their own visual symbols and languages to share their experiences of living with artificial intelligence and surveillance. Works by artists in Beijing, China; Dzaleka, Malawi; and Cairo, Egypt were then shared and remixed by diasporic Toronto-based creators. The goal was to communicate in ways that confuse those that administer these systems and as an alternative to the abstracted approaches of Western ethical traditions.

In March 2020, as the world finds itself increasingly under lock down in response to a novel virus, we see a mass exodus from the world of the real to the world of the digital.

How do we collectively make sense of what's going on? How do we acknowledge our entangled fates through technologies that too often serve to isolate?

UKAI Projects applied and was accepted into the TAC-FCAD Digital Solutions Incubator program in 2018.

UKAI had only recently been incorporated and this opportunity provided us with support to explore our organizational challenges through digital technology. Over three months we received support from four students who helped us think through next steps.

Overall problem: What kinds of problems are artists who digitally collaborate faced with?

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UKAI Projects conducts artistic research and prototypes culture for what's coming. We believe in polyphony and that each of us is responsible for assembling our own meaning from the world around us. We avoid polarization and offer evidence that emerging technologies can be turned over to other uses in order to support the culture(s) we'll need going forward.

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Intimidated and overwhelmed with constant moving target/piece

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Intimidated and overwhelmed with constant moving target/piece

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How to build trust in this digital space? When digital space feels like it divides more than connects.

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How to build trust in this digital space? When digital space feels like it divides more than connects.

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Unmediated hacking to novelize artificial walls and care

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Unmediated hacking to novelize artificial walls and care

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something incredible.

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feels like another system inserting itself or re-structuring what we are currently experiencing

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feels like another system inserting itself or re-structuring what we are currently experiencing

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we've tended to think of "digital care" as taking one's laptop to get fixed -- how do we expand this?

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we've tended to think of "digital care" as taking one's laptop to get fixed -- how do we expand this?

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v7i1.116062

Abstract

This paper considers some of the limitations and possibilities of computational models in the context of environmental inquiry, specifically exploring the modes of knowledge production that it mobilizes. Historic computational attempts to model, simulate and make predictions about environmental assemblages, both emerge from and reinforce a systems view on the world. The word eco-system itself stands as a reminder that the history of ecology is enmeshed with systems theory and presup-poses that species entanglements are operational or functional. More surreptitiously, a systematic view of the environment connotes it as bounded, knowable and made up of components operating in chains of cause and effect. This framing strongly invokes possibilities of manipulation and control and implicitly asks: what should an ecosystem be optimized for? This question is particularly relevant at a time of rapid climate change, mass extinction and, conveniently, an unprecedented surplus of computing.

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https://doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v7i1.116062 This paper considers some of the limitations and possibilities of computational models in the context of environmental inquiry, specifically exploring the modes of knowledge production that it mobilizes. Historic computational attempts to model, simulate and make predictions about environmental assemblages, both emerge from and reinforce a systems view on the world.

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remembering as reinvigorating practice fill the gaps remembering what is already there 

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remembering as reinvigorating practice fill the gaps remembering what is already there 

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TWO eyes seeing

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On April 18, 2024, a group of 15 arts admins, academics, & researchers met with Jessa Agilo of ArtsPond & Jerrold McGrath of Ukai at the School of Cities’ Creative Communities Commons Speaker Series to explore different perspectives on what digital (in)justice is and what our relationship can be to it.

Imagine a window could represent an access point or a moment when you are able to pierce/interact with that which currently exists? Push against, nuture, refuse to engage with and even destroy?

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Culture for what's coming.

Our work combines cultural research and prototyping with immersive compelling experiences for audiences and the public. Our research looks into the role of culture in dealing with present and future technological, social, and ecological volatility. Our artistic interventions and infrastructure offer a sense of wonder and mystery in a range of contexts both online and offline. We show possible futures so that we might find ways of stepping into them.

UKAI Projects is a trusted partner for organizations looking to leverage technology in new and surprising ways.

From our inception in 2017, we have grown through commissions and co-productions with partners in both the arts and elsewhere.

AI Ritual is an immersive performance work driven by a large language model (LLM) that was trained by UKAI. A co-production with STO Union, the work was initially presented at the Spy on Me festival at Hebbel am ufer (HAU1) in Berlin in September 2022 and at Out Loud! in Wakefield, PQ in November 2022.

AI Ritual is available for touring or installation. Contact us for more information.

Carnival of Algorithmic Culture

June 23 & 24, 2023

Carnival is humour and chaos. Carnival is body, place, and reversal.

featuring experimental performances, installations, talks, and workshops

Tributaries is a modular installation inspired by water and movement. The output is performative and reconfigurable, ranging from VR experienced in the forest to large scale projections, online experiences and audio-visual performance.

Dan Tapper is one of the 3 residents of Intelligent Terrain residency in 2022.

For Intelligent Terrain, Noelle Perdue turned data mapping technology (used to auto-moderate online content) against itself , creating a series of images and objects generated to disgust software systems worldwide, ideally resulting in her permanent exile from the Metaverse and ultimate freedom.

Noelle Perdue is one of the 3 residents of Intelligent Terrain residency in 2022.

Nature is made out of an infinite number of patterns that humans are studying from the beginning for building their civilization based on them. This project is research-based in which studying natural patterns, extracting mathematical order, collecting data, and turning them into visuals are key points.

Hooria Rahimi is one of the 3 residents of Intelligent Terrain residency in 2022.

GROUND is a tabletop role-playing game about a strange entity that wants to be remembered, or perhaps left alone.

GROUND is played with other people and each of you will play a 'role' based on an idea that has been remembered: beauty, rage, body, faith, knowledge, green, or disorder.

GROUND grows the more you play it. At first it's just you and your group. Then there is the Oracle, made of language and wires. Then the goat. The less said about the goat, the better. Then there is the cave, and the world, and the rituals we bring to make a home in it.

Please Don't Understand This invited creators in communities closest to the impacts of algorithmic culture to imagine their own visual symbols and languages to share their experiences of living with artificial intelligence and surveillance. Works by artists in Beijing, China; Dzaleka, Malawi; and Cairo, Egypt were then shared and remixed by diasporic Toronto-based creators. The goal was to communicate in ways that confuse those that administer these systems and as an alternative to the abstracted approaches of Western ethical traditions.

In March 2020, as the world finds itself increasingly under lock down in response to a novel virus, we see a mass exodus from the world of the real to the world of the digital.

How do we collectively make sense of what's going on? How do we acknowledge our entangled fates through technologies that too often serve to isolate?

UKAI Projects applied and was accepted into the TAC-FCAD Digital Solutions Incubator program in 2018.

UKAI had only recently been incorporated and this opportunity provided us with support to explore our organizational challenges through digital technology. Over three months we received support from four students who helped us think through next steps.

Overall problem: What kinds of problems are artists who digitally collaborate faced with?

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UKAI Projects conducts artistic research and prototypes culture for what's coming. We believe in polyphony and that each of us is responsible for assembling our own meaning from the world around us. We avoid polarization and offer evidence that emerging technologies can be turned over to other uses in order to support the culture(s) we'll need going forward.

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Bolstering big ideas and untapped potential in the arts into exceptional, everyday shared realities on-the-ground and in-the-cloud.