More Than Meets AI

This exhibition investigates AI and its role in creativity, narrative, and artistic innovation. We do so from a critically engaged perspective, one that both celebrates the new potentialities of AI for the arts and literature, while simultaneously considering some of the significant challenges AI poses for our culture and society.

We also contextualize contemporary AI art within a wider context of generative digital art and electronic literature that has a history stretching back to the beginnings of the digital computer. 

The works in this exhibition engage with AI in ways that challenge conventional notions of how artists and writers might respond to this tectonic shift in technology, considering for example the complexity of new forms of writing that manifest as visual art. How might we “read” a parody articulated through generated images? How will AI impact the future of motion pictures?  How can AI be used to produce works that critique dominant power structures? How can artworks address the biases and inequities that are baked into AI platforms and perhaps embedded within human language itself?

Here we explore the role of the cyborg author, the hybrid artist, whose work is neither solely the product of an individual human mind nor an artificial intelligence but a dance between the two within the vectors of a vast network of signification. 

The More Than Meets AI exhibition, curated by Eamon O’Kane, Jill Miller, and Scott Rettberg with Alex Saum and Jhave Johnston, is taking place at multiple venues from late September to late October at venues including the Center for Digital Narrative, Kunstgarasjen, Joy Forum (KMD), Rom 61 (KMD), and USF Verftet (presented by the Bergen International Film Festival).

It is arranged and sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council project Extending Digital Narrative, the Center for Digital Narrative, the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, the faculties of Humanities and Art, Music, and Design at the University of Bergen, the University of California, Berkeley, and the host venues.

Kunstgarasjen

Møllendalsveien 15. Exhibited September 20-October 20. Opening September 20, 19.00. Open Thursday 12.00-18.00, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 12.00-16.00.

Center for Digital Narrative, UiB

Langes gate 1-3. Exhibited October 1-October 25. Opening event October 17, 17.00. Open 13.00-16.00 Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

Joy Forum, KMD, UiB

Møllendalsveien 61. Exhibited October 7-October 24. Opening event October 18, 13.00. Open 10.00-16.00.

USF Verftet, presented in collaboration with the Bergen International Film Festival

Georgernes Verft 12. Exhibited October 16-October 24. Opening event October 16th, 18.30. Open 14.00-20.00.

Rom 61, KMD, UiB

Møllendalsveien 61. Exhibited October 15-October 24. Opening event October 18, 13.00. Open 13.00-17.00.

Tårnsalen, UiB, seminar on AI and digital narrative

Muséplassen 3. October 17, 13.00-17.00. Free, but registration due to seat restrictions, see uib.no/cdn.