{"id":315070,"date":"2021-10-27T10:23:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T08:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?post_type=selected&p=315070"},"modified":"2021-10-27T10:23:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T08:23:25","slug":"starts-festival-barcelona-combines-art-and-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"selected","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/selected\/starts-festival-barcelona-combines-art-and-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"S+T+ARTS Festival Barcelona combines art and artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

S\u00f3nar, the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya<\/a> \u00b7 BarcelonaTech (UPC) and betev\u00e9 are partnering to present the AI and Music S+T+ARTS Festival today and tomorrow (27 + 28 October). The festival will be held live in Barcelona and online and will feature nearly 30 activities, including shows, presentations, talks and roundtables with artists, scientists and other professionals who incorporate artificial intelligence as an essential element in musical projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the framework of the S+T+ARTS programme of the European Commission, the AI and Music S+T+ARTS Festival <\/a>will feature nearly 30 activities at the Centre de Cultura Contempor\u00e0nia de Barcelona (CCCB)<\/a>, the Barcelona Auditori<\/a> and several UPC<\/strong> facilities. Musicians and artists of multiple genres will premiere their works and experiment live with artificial intelligence (AI). One of the highlights of the AI and Music S+T+ARTS Festival<\/strong>, which transcends the festival itself, is the creation of the Thinking Lab<\/strong>, an applied research laboratory that explores the relationship between AI and musical creativity, and, ultimately, the interaction between people and machines. The Thinking Lab is led by the UPC\u2019s Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDEAI)<\/a> research centre and the Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre (CITM)<\/a> and is coordinated jointly with S\u00f3nar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this\u00a0space for discussion and co-creation,\u00a0<\/strong>which has been running since April,\u00a0experts, scientists, artists and other professionals have been exchanging experiences and knowledge<\/strong>\u00a0that have nurtured some of the presentations and shows of the festival. The conclusions will be published later in a white paper on music and AI. During the festival, the Thinking Lab will remain an open space for discussion and experimentation to identify and conceptualise the major challenges and most relevant practices when applying AI in musical activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click for full programm here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-creation groups<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

S\u00f3nar and the UPC have promoted three co-creation groups between artists and AI specialists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-creations are spaces for exchange between musicians and artificial intelligence experts that aim to develop new performances by using AI techniques. Each resulting co-creation focuses on a specific line of research:\u00a0neural networks, sentiment analysis, computer vision and motion capture<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the complete press release here. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among its 21 shows, most of them absolute premieres<\/strong>, the programme features co-creations developed expressly for the festival in which the artists have worked hand in hand with artificial intelligence researchers from the UPC<\/strong>. The results of their work will be presented in several performances:<\/p>\n\n\n\n