{"id":19105,"date":"2025-10-24T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/?post_type=standish_projets&p=19105"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:52:55","slug":"chantier-ia-3-appel-a-projets-vivant","status":"publish","type":"standish_projets","link":"https:\/\/sporobole.org\/en\/project\/chantier-ia-3-appel-a-projets-vivant\/","title":{"rendered":"Chantier IA 3 | Appel \u00e0 projets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GENERAL STATEMENT<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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[\u2026] les ensembles de donn\u00e9es d\u00e9finissent les limites \u00e9pist\u00e9miques qui r\u00e9gissent le fonctionnement de l’IA et, en ce sens, cr\u00e9ent les limites de la fa\u00e7on dont l’IA peut \u00ab voir \u00bb le monde<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[\u2026] datasets shape the epistemic boundaries governing how AI operates and, in that sense, create the limits of how AI can “see” the world<\/em>.
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Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI<\/em>, 2021, p.98<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After hosting 19 artists in residence, organizing three exhibitions and several outreach activities between 2023 and 2025, Sporobole is back in 2026 with a third call for projects as part of the AI Project!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Artificial intelligence (AI) does not seem to be disappearing from our lives anytime soon\u2014for better or for worse. It is literally intertwined with our lives, whether in the form of Siri or Alexa assistants, through our Google searches complemented by Gemini and those we formulate on ChatGPT, or simply through our autocorrectors, predictive text editors, and other Spotify or Netflix algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently, we have also seen a proliferation of generative AI applications, for text and images as well as video and sound. Thanks to its ability to generate novelty from its neural network trained on vast data sets, particularly those accessible online, this highly versatile type of AI has the potential to quickly become an everyday ally. And its ubiquity is not unrelated to its accessibility via generative AI software, sometimes free, whether online or offline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the commercial ambition of generative AI comes with constraints linked to the need to appeal to the widest possible audience, which leads to a certain standardization of aesthetics. The mismatch between the consensual aims of these commercial models and the objectives generally pursued by artists can thus become problematic in the context of artistic practice, leading to an impoverishment of visual language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EXPLORING MACHINE LEARNING<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In response to this challenge, but also because we want to broaden the horizons of experimentation in artificial intelligence, this new call for projects encourages artists to explore the personalization of AI models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This approach can take two distinct forms in the context of the residency. The first is the training of small models\u2014an approach that allows artists to work with systems that are less resource-intensive and can be integrated into the tangible world, for example in an interactive system. The second is the specialization of existing models (also known as fine-tuning), where an artist takes a general model and adapts it with a manageable dataset to give it a new artistic direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal of this call is to promote a perspective that speaks to the possibilities of the medium, an experimental approach focused on the process rather than the result, oriented toward the search for emerging behaviors. By stepping outside the logic of model users, this residency aims to provide a context where it is possible to work beyond the prompt. We therefore propose not limiting ourselves to generative AI models and opening up to strategies of reappropriation: modifying the behavior of existing models and developing new ones are among the possibilities offered. It is also a question of promoting a critical approach to AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This residency also provides an opportunity to explore ethical, artisanal, open-source, or community-based datasets, such as those derived from citizen science. More specifically, the proposed project must include a component involving AI model training or specialization. Whether this is an isolated aspect of a larger project or the very basis of the proposal, this machine learning dimension must be explicitly stated in the research proposal, along with the proposed approach to the type of data and its origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MOVING TOWARDS THE LIVING<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In line with the extent to which AI is intertwined with our daily lives and the level of interrelation we have with it, this new call for projects also focuses on the concept of the living. Here, life should be understood in the broadest sense, not just in its biological sense. Examples include the issue of digital twins or the concepts of simulation, otherness, and ecosystems. The idea of synthetic versus natural could also be a fertile avenue for research, as could any project or project component that falls within the tradition of bio art. As our era is undergoing major environmental upheavals, we wish to welcome and support projects that reflect on current issues where living things are called into question, taken into consideration, and integrated into the algorithmic equation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this third AI Project, Sporobole is enthusiastic about stimulating artistic creation\u2014both emerging and established\u2014and offering essential support to artists for whom technology is a preferred tool. Through the guidance of our experts and specialists\u2014programmers and developers\u2014we also promote a commitment to co-constructing knowledge and sharing expertise. In this sense, projects that present a certain technological challenge are always welcome on our side of the interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion: we can’t wait to discover your proposals and projects!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Terms and conditions of residencies<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We offer two residency options for projects (artists must select one <\/strong>on the application form):<\/p>\n\n\n\n