I Learn You Learn He Learns

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Thanks to :Tanzimpulse, Mnchen

Stephan Wolf, still photography

artLAB // Cnacle de fous e.V. : Klaus Kienzle, Manfred

Bachmeier

Lars Kunze & Cotesys Central Robotics Laboratory II

Alessandro Giusti, Gianni Di Caro & IDSIA Robotics

Laboratoryanita Crowder, Bill Glover, Uttam Grandhi, Jess,

Julia Oliveira, Oleg, luis orellana & the AI collective

I learn, you learn, he learns

...world premiere performance

7:30pm Mar 2, 2012

Cotesys Central Robotics Lab II Munich, Germany

IDSIA Robotics Laboratory Lugano, Switzerland

Galerie La Resistance Lavardin, France

dancers

Mariana Carranza, C. Villemont-Kienze. (munich)

Footbot (Lugano)

music by Canton Becker

Dance Choreography by Mariana Carranza

Robot Choreography by Rupesh Kumar Srivastava

Data visualization by Aprille Best Glover & Dan ShawArt Game Design by

Aprille Best Glover, Dan Shaw, Rupesh Srivastava,

Ekaterina, & the Artistic Intelligence Collective

nd out more at www.other-ai.org


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CAN LEARNING BECOME A CREATIVE ACT?

I learn, you learn, he learns ... is an Evolutionary Art

Game and Performance Piece. Using a Wii remote, one danc-

es with an AI agent. In the World Premier, the dance is via

the internet between dancers and a robot, Footbot.

As each person dances with the AI agent, not only will

they see avisualization of their own movements, but they

will also become teachers themselves. The motion data

generated will help teach an AI to dance.

Inspired by and in parallel with Prof. Norvig and Prof.

Thrun of Stanford Universitys Intro to Articial Intel-

ligence class that attracted over 160,000 students world-

wide in fall of 2011, I learn, you learn, he learns ... ,

explores one of the most misunderstood aspects of Arti-

cial Intelligence - learning.

the process of machine learning is slow - taking thousands

of failed trials to learn even simple tasks. Typically the

public only sees the perfected results of AI research af-

ter the process is complete. Here, the process will take

place in open view. In the beginning the Agent will not be

able to dance at all. As generations of the Ai Agent learn

it will gradually become a more and more procient Danc-

er. Viewers will be able to analyze past dances and vote on

which they prefer. As an open source project everyone is

free to experiment with different approaches to machinelearning and motion recognition.

is this iterative process used by machines so different from

how we learn ourselves? Why do we patiently let machines

and children try as often as necessary to learn yet, as adults,

cut ourselves off from that same learning and creativity if

we do not get instant results? Why do we so frequently try

to hide the process of learning until complete, as if the

learning process itself is somehow shameful?Is it possible to

rethink what learning really is and means in the internet

age? Can Learning be a creative act?


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About the AI Collective

In the fall of 2011,

Stanford University offeredIntroduction to AI (Articial

Intelligence) for free over

the internet, with identical

coursework as its traditional

physical classroom. Over

135,000 have signed up for the

class.. This is enough people to

form a real culture in both

the cultural and petri dish

senses of the word. This is a unique moment and rare

opportunity to observe and participate in the evolution

of internet culture as well

Introduction to Artistic Intelligence was a parallel

course that was freely available to the public. This

course functioned both as real educational introduction

to the tools and techniques used today in contemporary

art and as a collaborative art project in its own right.

The AI Collective is made up of 876 participants from

around the world.

The AI Collective is interested in intersection between

Artistic and Articial Intelligence. That articial and

artistic share the same word root is not accidental. Their

common Latin root is ars which encompasses our modernwords for art, craft and skill. Both AI and the Arts are

multidisciplinary elds that interested in perception,

social organization, relationships between humans and

objects, as well as the nature of intelligence itself.

Likewise both AI and the arts have uid borders between

works of pure investigation and those with broad popular

application. In diverse yet often parallel ways both

articial and artistic intelligence will profoundly shape

the future of our society.... The AI Collective seeks to

investigate these colliding futures....

more at www.other-ai.org


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Canton Becker has been

recording solo electronic

music since 1987. when -- as ateenager -- he was inspired by

the sounds of music technology

pioneers such as Tangerine

Dream, Kraftwerk, and Jean

Michel Jarre. His style is

difcult to pin down, as it

ranges from crystalline ambient music to emotionally

evocative pounding techno. In 1995 Canton pioneeredthe art of collaborative online music making with The

Communal Groove Machine - a project which later

developed into Res Rocket Surfer / Rocket Network, the

rst online music jamming software ever developed.

Today he works on music and collaborative Internet

projects from his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Mariana Carranza studied

architecture and urbanism inMontevideo. her training as

an artist was at the school of

Torres Garcia in Montevideo.

she won national prizes and a

research-fellowship by the UN-

Organisation OEA that brought

her to Central-America and

New York.Moving to Spain in 1988 she continued in architecture

and collaboration with other artists. Exploring the

interfaces between arts and architecture, Mariana

Carranza began to work in digital video design, co-

producing the video Un Solo Mundo 1492-1992.

Living in Germany since 1994 Mariana Carranza

continues to explore the links between visual arts and

architecture, landscape and urbanism. In association

with Stephan Wolf she established poiesis - studio for

architecture and arts in Munich.


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Aprille Glovers artwork focuses on

creating environments to explore the

physicality of ideas. Characteristic of

her work is an intellectual edginess

that challenges the audience to

rethink cultural constructs.

Glovers career began two decades

ago when she left robotics and

made her foray into the art world

with a self-portrait that earned her an invitation to

exhibit at the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary

Art. In this innovative work, excerpts of her poetry were

encapsulated on a surface encrusted with labels from

the numerous prescriptions she was taking to treat HIV.

Since moving to France, where she lives in a cave, Glover

has been sensitized to the overwhelming power of

place. Her living environment informs her site-specic

installations, including an interactive installation

for the Grand Palais in Paris and her occidental tea

ceremony at the Muse Renoir. More at www.aprille.net

Dan Shawis a software

developer in Honolulu,

Hawaii, currently moving

business applications tothe cloud. He took the

Artistic Intelligence

course at the same

time as the Articial

Intelligence course and

sees a common theme:

the use of systematic,

abstract thinking to organize and manage innumerable

details. He enjoys applying his software skills to

artistic projects, as well as applying artistic insights

to the design of software systems.


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Rupesh Kumar Srivastava is

currently a PhD student in Articial

Intelligence at IDSIA (Istituto DalleMolle di Studi sullIntelligenza

Articiale) in Lugano, Switzerland

working in developmental robotics

and brain computer interfacing. He

was born in UP, India and studied

Mechanical Engineering at Indian

Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

He creates articial agents that learn in a new ways,however, he is interested in looking at ways to learn

that may have gone unnoticed before, and although

may not be optimal in the algorithmic sense, are more

natural- or just interesting.

Claudine Villemot-Kienzle is a

dancer, teacher, choreographer

and Co-Founder/Co-Director ofthe Center for Human Emergence

(Germany). The focus of her work lies

in interdisciplinary collaboration

and integration of different elds

such as sports, art, and social

sciences.

She is co-founder and chairman of the artLABCnacle de fous an artist lab, that committed to over

arching, interdisciplinary research and experimental

design beyond the established artistic divisions, and

that encourage public dispute on current social and

political issues through diverse and innovative forms

of execution. Founder of the dance theater group

Emotional Dance, choreographer for the Bavarian

gymnastics Association. Artistic Director of the Munich

Entertainment Productions Ltd. Her choreographicwork may combine elements of gymnastics, acrobatics,

dance, theater, photography and interactive media


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Footbot is a modular all-

terrain experimentation robot,

used in research project to test

new concepts that need a robot

platform of high complexity. The

distinctive attributes of this robot

are: modularity, in order to adapt

it to several research projects

good sensor capabilities, such

as an omnivision camera, sensors

to measure range and bearing of

other marXbots, rotating distance sensor scanner etc.

high computational power using an iMX.31 processor, and

multi-processor architecture based on a CAN bus

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