database – Artificial Intelligence https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Women in Media Arts https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/women-in-media-arts-workshop/ Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:01:51 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=1350

Ars Electronica (AT)

Women in Media Arts is one of the most comprehensive databases dedicated to women working in these genres. It was started with information about women who have made a mark on the 36-year history of Ars Electronica and was opened to the public last year. Now users are called upon to contribute entries about female media artists and have the opportunity to present themselves on the platform even if they have not previously been associated with Ars Electronica.

The database is designed to serve as an active research platform for artists, curators, scholars, scientists and anyone else interested in finding out more about female practitioners in these fields. This database makes no claim to completeness; it is intended to offer an initial overview and starting points for further research. As an active partner in various school and college programs designed to nurture women’s interest in technology and

science, Ars Electronica’s mission in supporting this project is to contribute to greater public awareness of women working in media arts, to promote new role models and to encourage girls and women to become actively involved in a field that is still dominated by men.

The project is a work-in-progress and will be updated on an ongoing basis. It can be accessed via Ars Electronica’s online archive at: archive.aec.at/womeninmediaarts.

http://archive.aec.at/womeninmediaarts/

]]> The Plastic Lab https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/plastic-lab/ Sun, 06 Aug 2017 11:20:30 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=3488

circ responsibility (DE)

Washed up on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly emerging on our beaches is only the prelude to the greater story that has unfolded further away in the world’s oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land. For more than fifty years, the global production and consumption of plastics has continued to rise. An approximate eight million tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans every year, which equals one truck of plastic per minute.

The objective of the Plastic Lab is to develop an artificial, caring intelligence that creates a meta open-source database with all kinds of solutions to address the issue of plastic waste. Information on materials science, recycling technology and business models will be made available at no cost, so that entrepreneurs, designers, engineers and innovators around the world can access this information and apply it in their local context. Let’s solve the century’s challenge of plastic pollution!

Credits

The Plastic Lab was initiated by Hans Reitz, Christina Jäger and Ilona Geimer.

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