13:30 – Welcome

Informal welcome. Coffee and refreshments.

14:00 – 14:10

Opening remarks

Brief overview of the symposium’s theme, aims, and significance.

Speakers: FSS (Lisa Pacini and Gidsken Braadlie) and Siv Hofsvang

14:10 – 14:20

Victoria Johnson

Musical performance. What happens when the violin meets AI?

14:25 – 14:45

Benjamin Harbakk

“Ouroboros AI: The snake eating its own tail”

"Learn how Image Generators work, how we can fight back, and why the AI project is doomed to fail."

"The talk intersects copyright law, art, technology and economic incentives”

14:50 – 15:20

Trym Lindell and Kristian Wold

This talk will present the struggle of steering AI to align with human preferences and desires, the current state of the problem, and what may happen if we fail or succeed.

15:25 – 15:40

Flu Hartberg

KIKI Artistic Initiative for the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence. Hartberg summarizes the work KIKI has done so far: Where does the AI vs. culture debate stand today, and what will be the toughest and most important battles ahead?

15:40 – 15:55

Break with refreshments

16:00 – 16:20

Susan Kozel

“AI and Dance: from Performing Encryption to Somatic AI”

This talk will outline the need for dance artists to actively contribute to discussions around AI.

16:25 – 17:00

Panel discussion:

Will authenticity become a premium? Economic reality. Ethics. Intellectual property rights.

How is AI distorting and affecting artists’ work? The unlicensed use of creative content in training generative AI.

Piksel: Maite Cajaraville and Gisle Frøysland, Hilde Halvorsrød, Antonio Cataldo and Lisa Digernes.

17:00 – 17:10

Q&A

17:10 – 17:25

Break with refreshments

17:30 – 18:00

Marina Otero Verziers

“Cooling the Cloud”

What might it mean for computation to acknowledge and operate within social and ecological limits?

18:05 – 18:25

Alexander Refsum Jensenius

“How AI can help us be more human”

The talk is about how my development of AI systems over the last 25 years has helped me understand more about how humans move, act, think, and feel. Now, more than ever, we need to incorporate human perspectives into new AI developments, but also critically explore new AI-based systems and reflect on how they change humanity in different ways.

18:30 – 18:50

Siv Hofsvang, Charlotte Wiig from “A Female Gaze” and students

“Kunst av folk, ikke KI!” (Art by people, not AI!) – How far can you use AI and still claim it’s an original artwork?

18:50 - 19:00

Mathias Eugen Engen

"A practice in search of friendship"

How to find and maintain friendship in a mediated life? And what happens when real friendships and parasocial relations become hard to differentiate? Engen's practice tries to reproduce situations where friendship and intimacy become content, and how it still impacts us.

19:00 - 19:10

Summary of the day

The program may be subject to change.

Fredag 28. august kl. 15.00 - 19.00

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Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir and Susan Kozel will open up creative and critical approaches to AI in relation to dance and somatic practices. Fostering a flow-through between interior and exterior landscapes, the workshop will begin with Guðjónsdóttir leading her ‘Full Drop into the Body’ meditation practice, followed by a discussion of what Somatic AI might look and feel like. Can we imagine a Small Language Model (SLM or dataset) that is ethically responsive to inner body states? What might it contain, and how would we like to use it? What are the risks and potential of AI as it permeates the body?

Lørdag 29. august kl. 11.00 - 14.00

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Ta med egen PC

Gives a practical workshop to help you reclaim agency, fight the dystopia and poison AI training datasets.

Big tech firms are stealing what you post online to train their AI. They seek to replace our labour, our art and our humanity. Join the resistance and bring a laptop!

This practical workshop will focus on the fundamental defences one can use as a visual artist or social media user who shares content online, and the precautions you can take to be as hostile as possible to AI web scrapers in a world where platforms are increasingly antagonistic and parasitic towards the creators on them.

We will also go through some social media hygiene: how to parse the most important parts of a Terms of Service contract on social media websites, and how to best set yourself up for legal success in potential future lawsuits against AI companies.

The workshop lasts for 3 hours, including breaks, and includes plenty of time for practical questions and addressing your specific needs.

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Lørdag 29. august kl. 14.00 - 17.30

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Ta med egen PC

A presentation and hands-on workshop on running AI locally, on your own hardware, without the cloud. We look critically at the ethics of contemporary AI – extracted training data, energy and water costs, surveillance and corporate control – and then get practical: installing and running open-weight models on ordinary laptops for text, image and sound. Participants leave with a working local setup and a clearer sense of what regaining artistic control over these tools actually means.

● How to set up a small AI

● How to build and feed your dataset

● When and how to connect to larger AI systems

● How different AIs respond based on their cultural and political contexts (US, EU, China)

● How these biases can affect and mislead European artists

Piksel is an international network and annual event for electronic art and technological freedom. Part workshop, part festival.

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