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Adrian Notz / The AI+Art Lab

Adrian Notz / The AI+Art Lab

As AI increasingly permeates every facet of our lives, it is crucial that the discourse extends beyond the realm of experts to encompass society as a whole. Unfortunately, public discussions on AI often fall into repetitive dystopian narratives, hindering a forward-looking dialogue about its possibilities, necessities, and aspirations with good purposes. Current technological development of AI is accelerating exponentially. The danger of AI being used for harmful purposes is great, as we can read in the news every day. This ongoing development and raises ethical, social, cultural and environmental questions. The fine line seems to be in how AI is used sustainably and holistically for common good.

The AI+Art Lab is situated in the heart of the ETH Zurich as a freed radical across all 16 ETH departments. ETH has successfully managed to establish a visionary thought leadership with strong industry and entrepreneurship affiliations and collaborations that bring science to the business part of society on a global scale. By fostering the collaboration between artists and researchers the AI+Art Lab invigorates the symbiotic relationship between art and science to empower a critical, ethical and creative mindset in education, research and development and to communicate more broadly beyond industry and entrepreneurship from science to society.

The AI+Art Lab promotes an understanding of AI that takes appropriate account of the social, cultural, ethical, sustainable and environmental dimensions. It is dedicated to reshaping the narrative and actively contributing to a future-oriented constructive exchange on the transformative power of AI.

Adrian Notz (*1977 in Zurich) is curator of the AI + Art program at the ETH Zurich. In 2023 he was curator of the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara and from 2020 - 2022 he was curator at the Tichy Ocean Foundation in Zürich. From 2012-2019 he led Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich as artistic director. He worked there first as a curatorial assistant (2004-2006) and as co-director (2006 -2012). From 2010 to 2015 he was head of the Department for Fine Arts at the School of Design in St. Gallen. Notz has organised and curated numerous exhibitions, events, conferences, actions and interventions with international artists, activists and thinkers in Cabaret Voltaire as well as internationally around the globe.

Join us for this lecture by Adrian Notz in the KHiO Library, free and open to all.