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AI FOREST
AI FOREST
Immersive art installation/ narrative space / research environment
Artistic Concept
Birke van Maartens
Venue
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, September 8th - 12th 2021
Exhibited at Me and the Machines, ARS Electronica Center, 2023
Funded by
The State of Upper Austria and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research via the LIT – Linz Institute of Technology
AI FOREST
[Immersive art installation/ narrative space and research environment]
Narrative Space at Ars Electronica Festival 2021, Linz Austria
Artist Residency at LIT Robopsychology Lab [Linz Institute of Technology]
The artistic and innovative research environment – an 80sqm artificial indoor forest – was created to investigate questions about decision-making in teamwork with AI [Artificial Intelligence] and about explanatory strategies of machine learning systems. 'AI FOREST' was created in collaboration with the LIT Robopsychology Lab (Linz Institute of Technology) and showcased at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021 as part of the exhibition 'Demystify AI'.
Artistic Concept: Birke van Maartens
Project Lead: Martina Mara, Nives Meloni
Research Design: Benedikt Leichtmann
Sound Design / Sound Installation: Kenji Tanaka
Scenery Design: Birke van Maartens
Scenery Construction: Leonie Haasler, Gabriel Vitel
App Development & Game Design: JKU Visual Data Science Lab [ Moritz Heckmann, Andreas Hinterreiter, Christina Humer, Marc Streit ]
Special Thanks to: Mykologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft am Biologiezentrum Linz (Otto Stoik & Team)
AI Forest emerged from the research project HOXAI – Hands-on Explainable AI, in which the LIT Robopsychology Lab and the Visual Data Science Lab at JKU Linz collaborate as project partners.
Funded by: The State of Upper Austria and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research via the LIT – Linz Institute of Technology

