DIY – 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 FABLAB – Printing, Drawing, Cutting https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/fablab/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 20:19:36 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=2377

Whether you’re interested in trimming textiles with a huge laser cutter, using a CNC milling machine, or simply assembling structures from a variety of materials, the FabLab at this year’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD offers do-it-yourself projects you can try out right on the festival grounds. All visitors are cordially invited to create an art object of their own. In doing so, the accent is on human creativity—after all, we are the ones who issue the assignments the machines carry out! Participants can play with technologies and let various artificial intelligences cooperate with each other. The big question: who conducts this mechanical orchestra?

Trotec Laser (AT)
Isel Austria GmbH (AT)

]]> Hybrid Art – Open Source Estrogen https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/hybrid-art-estrogen/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 10:22:28 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=3236

Mary Maggic (US), Byron Rich (US)

The interdisciplinary project Open Source Estrogen combines biohacking and “speculative design”* to show the public the dominance and biological power of the hormone estrogen.

What if we could produce estrogen ourselves in the kitchen?

The project raises this and other entirely relevant questions seriously, yet also with humor: Who produces hormones? Whose bodies are affected by this? How toxic have hormones meanwhile become in our environment? While questions of body and gender sovereignty are heatedly discussed today, the petrochemical, agriculture and pharma industries are responsible for the way we are increasingly surrounded by “xenoestrogens”**.

These are an example of the way nature can be formed, but they deviate from our conventional notions of “normality.” Open Source Estrogen creates a new subjectivity in an increasingly “queer” world. With the combination of DIY/DIWO (do-it-yourself/do-itwith- others), biohacking and art installation, the project seeks to prompt a public dialogue.

* Speculative design is a research-oriented, experimental design approach that goes back to the British designers and professors Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby.

** Xenoestrogens are synthetically produced combinations with estrogen-like effects, which affect the appearance and functional processes of the body.

Credits

www.byronrich.com/Open-Source-Estrogen-2015-2017

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