Name: In the Making #8: Musical Networks and Algorithmic Emergence
Start: 2024-12-05T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-12-23T21:00:00+01:00
Location: West Den Haag

In the Making #8: Musical Networks and Algorithmic Emergence

Thursday night sessions on research in art
About this Event

This public evening addresses the increasing entanglement of music, digital networks, and algorithmic processes in artistic practices today. As artificial intelligence and decentralized technologies gain prominence, they challenge traditional notions of creativity, authorship, and collaboration in the arts. Exploring these topics is crucial now, as they reshape not only how music is made and shared but also its aesthetic and social dimensions.

Presenters:

Adam Łukawski is a pioneering music composer and computer programmer, innovating at the nexus of computer-assisted music composition and posthuman artistic research. His work, deeply engaged with aleatoric and generative methods, explores the integration of AI and blockchain technologies for creating novel compositional frameworks and enhancing musical interactivity. He is a doctoral fellow in the MetamusicX
research group at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent and a PhD candidate at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts of Leiden University. He studied Music Composition at Conservatorium van Amsterdam and at Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. As a computer programmer, Adam Łukawski gained experience working for several startups and at the Polish Information Processing Society. He recently co-edited (with Paulo de Assis) a new book "Decentralized Music: Exploring Blockchain for Artistic Research" (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis).
Website: www.adamlukawski.com

Sonia de Jager is a PhD researcher (philosophy of AI) at ESPhil + a theory tutor at WdKA, DAE + a member of the Noise Research Union + organizer of Regenerative Feedback. “Academic” work spans language-modulating, sound studies and active inference, all grounded in critical, radical traditions which aim to unsettle objectivist, authoritarian frameworks negatively constraining contemporary images of communication and computation.
More information can be found at: https://n-o.ooo.

Martin Zeilinger is a researcher and curator, currently working in the role of Reader in Computational Arts & Technology at Abertay University (Dundee/Scotland). His work focuses on artistic and activist experiments with emerging technologies such as AI and blockchain, with particular attention to questions of distributed agency and cultural ownership. Martin is the author of the open access monograph Tactical Entanglements: AI Art, Creative Agency, and the Limits of Intellectual Property (meson press, 2021) and many topical essays in journals including Leonardo, Philosophy & Technology, and Computer Music Journal. He frequently speaks at international arts organisations, such as Serpentine Galleries (London), MACBA (Barcelona), Aksioma (Ljubljana) and BEK (Bergen).

IN THE MAKING

The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) of Leiden University and Art Institute West Den Haag are pleased to announce their close collaboration in the second season of the public series In the Making. This series, dedicated to the practice of research in the arts, will consist of seven public sessions taking place on a monthly basis.

The articulation of art and research has a long and rich tradition that has grown in scope and relevance in the past few decades. ACPA has played a significant role in this process, as it is an internationally pioneering institution that enables artists to conduct research through their own practice in a University context. In the Making is meant to both present to the public the research carried out within ACPA as well as to foster a dialogue with a number of international actors from a variety of disciplines.

Artistic research makes the relationship between art and society permeable. Rather than bracketed in the private realm of the lone artist or the sometimes-isolated circuits of the art market, artistic research opens up its practice to the public domain. Its methods become part of collective process of exploration and re-imagining. In the Making aims to deepen a perspective which conceives of artistic practice not as the sole product of individual visionaries but as a collective endeavor embedded in society. It addresses the role of art in the construction of the present and the creation of possible futures.