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FOREST
Artificial intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Intelligence of Nature
2021 - Project in progress
Collective art project and research
Artistic collective : Olga Kisseleva, Elizaveta Shagina, Alexander Parfenkov
In the frame of FOREST research poject, ACTE Art&Science lab, Sorbonne University, Paris
Artistic creation has transformed significantly since artists began using innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technology. By using such AI tools as Machine Learning and GANs, artists create autonomously generated images, texts, and videos. With this new type of generative art, the process of creation as an individual or collective action turns into a complex networking action. The poststructuralist ideas based on "the death of the author" theory by Roland Barthes and a standpoint against individualization of the author by Michel Foucault, provide a theoretical background for the application of AI to artistic creation. With the active shift in artistic practice towards digital and online, which has intensified due to the pandemic, the aesthetic experience is linked to the context of the network. The experience of perceiving artworks, even the traditional ones, is changing. It is defined now by the Internet search engine and by all mediatization of the artworks. The network principle is thus emerging in the field
of aesthetics. To propose an in-depth study of the creative potential of this network principle hence becomes
necessary at this point.
The central question is: how can the network principle, its dynamic and poetic structure, designated by a set of interconnected objects, such as images, texts, and artworks, generate the new aesthetic forms?
It is an artistic project that will result in an artwork that employs three different forms of intelligence: Collective Intelligence, AI and Swarm in order to create three different digital visual ecosystems.
Multimedia installation and online networking art project unifying collective Intelligence, an adaptation of AI algorithms and Swarm Technology.
The theme of the limitation rests at the core of the project. Social, philosophic, and physical limitations may be interpreted differently by people depending on the countries of their origin, their social backgrounds and personal experiences.