Artificial Intelligence: From Many-Through-One to Many-Through-Many

Intermedia Studio, Room 260
VŠVU, Drotárska cesta 4, Bratislava

Given the alliance between American Big Tech and the Trump administration, digital self-sufficiency is becoming an increasingly urgent issue, but one to which we do not yet have a complete answer in either a European or an artistic context. Or do we? In this workshop, we will focus on two areas: independence in social media and independence in AI.

In a situation where anyone can be silenced or completely deleted from social networks, as recently happened to Page Not Found, the first part of the workshop will look at alternative social networks such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops, and others. We will try to set up an account and figure out why Mastodon has so many servers and why they all actually understand each other.

In the second part of the workshop, we will focus on local AI. We will look at user-friendly open source tools for working with local LLM (large language models) and other AI models (text-to-speech, speech-to-text) for working with data that does not leave our computer. We will get acquainted with the command line and learn how to use some of the tools through it or Python. This will allow us to look under the API hood of chatbots and explore their anatomy. If we succeed, we will find that no persistent mind awaits us. But that won't stop us from gaslighting LLM a little, or rather, promplighting it.

On the second day of the workshop, we will try to apply our experience in our own or group projects.

You will need to bring your own computer to the workshop.

The number of places is limited, so please sign up in the table.

Andy Gajdošík is a media artist and software developer. In his artistic practice, he focuses on useful art and socially engaged projects, which often involve his own software, technology, and provocative interventions. He is interested in copy-far-left software, alternative networks, self-hosting, and veganism. In 2019, he received the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for his web project Unhuman Resources, which addresses the influence of oligarchy on traditional media. He teaches at FaVU and FAMU, and is a member of the Random Radical football team and the automatonomy group.

The workshop is organized by the Intermedia Studio.

The workshop was supported by the Internal Grant System of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.