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🌟 Good holidays, Premiere community! 🎠 Our reading recommendation for the things that fill our days but deserve time and energy to reflect upon. 📚

💬“Yeah… absolutely, so no answers, only more questions.” Culture professionals shared their questions, reflections, and feelings about AI, discussing how we relate to AI from the position of culture during the online State of Culture Webinar on December 10. We watched the recording of the second episode of the State of Culture webinar and took notes of the discussion 👇 . We are sharing them here in an effort to expand these conversations, situate ourselves in this new environment and find “a field that is ours,” as one participant put it. The session was organized by Culture Action Europe and facilitated by Burak Sayin, who introduced the State of Culture initiative and highlighted significant development on a policy level. https://lnkd.in/dH-gTJZs #AI #culture #culturepolicy

BIG NEWS: WE ARE HOSTING AN IRL FESTIVAL! 🎪👯♂️💖 Ever since starting this community in 2020, we’ve dreamed of creating it and taking it from URL to IRL. And now we’re doing it! 💫🍮🐛 Have you ever wondered how the chaotic delight (that is our research) would look like if we did not do it online / in between zeros and ones? Picture this: a 3-day extravaganza in Amsterdam on May 1-3 2025 at Loods6, designed to push beyond mainstream AI narratives and amplify new, critical, and community-driven perspectives on AI. Imagine a space to linger, recharge, dream, and make—a living room for ideas where you can get inspired 🧃 scribble in the corner 🖍️ grab lunch with a new friend 🍱 jump into a workshop 🏗️ or just listen in on a conversation that shifts how you see AI 🥤 This festival will be the culmination of AIxDESIGN’s research over the last 5 years, where over 8,000 of us have connected online—and now we’re taking it offline. Whether you’re new to AI or a long-time maker, we’re excited to create a welcoming space to meet, explore, and shape the next wave of AI together. ⚠️ This January, we’re making a BIG announcement — and we want YOU on the inside. >> Join our launch crew and be the first to know once we drop it! 🔗 https://lu.ma/n5l1i3fg 🎪 AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI wouldn't have been possible without the support of Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, The Netherland-America Foundation, and our lovely Community Supporters.

In this video, Alain Tremeau, Professor of Computer Vision at the University Jean Monnet, talks about the collaboration with dance and new media artist Gwendaline Bachini. Her performance was recorded using a setup of GoPro cameras to enable 3D reconstruction of the dancers' movements and trajectories on stage at the Laboratoire Hubert Curien (University Jean Monnet) as part of the PREMIERE project. He also provides an overview of PREMIERE round table discussion, “Extended Stages and Performing Practices." The discussion explored the possibilities of #AI, #XR, and #3D technologies for extending #performingarts stages, interdisciplinary creation, and fostering digital audience engagement. https://lnkd.in/dUJtU4Ez #PremiereEU

It’s the European Parliament’s Disability Rights Week, the perfect time to get updated on the MuseIT research project!   MuseIT Project (Horizon Europe) aims to promote inclusion, participation, accessibility, and equal opportunities for all. By developing advanced technology, MuseIT works to enable and broaden access to cultural assets, as well as reshape how culture is experienced and created. Those of us at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science are delighted to be a part of this project!    What MuseIT is working on: - Multisensory cultural experiences: engage with culture through sight, sound, and touch - Inclusive music-making tools: empowering everyone to create and enjoy music interactively - Sustainability in accessibility: preserving cultural heritage inclusively for future generations Read more about the research project: https://lnkd.in/d2FDgJew Högskolan i Borås, ShareMusic & Performing Arts, Michael Culture Association Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, EXUS AI LABS Catalink Ltd, Actronika SAS, Ministero della Cultura, Stanford University, King's College London, MEMENTOES Project, SHIFT PROJECT (HORIZON EUROPE), Perceive_horizon, PREMIERE and MEMORISE_EU   #DisabilityRightsWeek

💡You are welcome to explore the new page on the PREMIERE project website dedicated to Research, where we explain the tools we are developing for various domains of performing practices: AI for archives browsing, performing XR, and AI tools for dance creation. https://lnkd.in/dNZ9irXd ✅ Our goal is to make the project’s results accessible and reusable by the research community as well as the cultural and creative industries. ❕Important❕ If you are working in digital transformation within the performing arts, leave your email on this page to receive alerts for the upcoming online gatherings as soon as dates are announced📩. These events will provide an opportunity to explore our latest research and connect with artists, venues, archivists, and other key stakeholders shaping this evolving space. #premiereEU #AI #performingarts #horizoneurope

Iori K. discusses the intersection of AI, privacy, and archives at the InterPARES Trust AI Symposium, "Bringing AI to Archives." Watch her interpretation on our YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/eNhBiGcS. Want to learn more about #AI technologies for #Archives? Check out our symposium playlist: https://lnkd.in/eh_kZgrp.

The interview with Gwendaline Bachini, Dance and New Media Artist, award-winning XR Director (France). This interview took place during the PREMIERE Open Day in Saint-Étienne on October 14, 2024. The collaboration began on September 13, 2024, at Université Jean Monnet (UJM) with the remarkable performance "Spiritus Mundi" by Carla Cardinale and Frédéric Tavernini, under Gwendaline Bachini's artistic direction. The performance mixes dance, film, and creative coding using volumetric video for interactive dance. During the next stage, the PREMIERE Open Day in October, Gwendaline conducted a MoCap session with CYENS, one of PREMIERE's technological partners, using Rokoko suits. Gwendaline shared how this collaboration allowed her to explore accessible motion capture technologies and revealed her motivation for experimenting with technology in dance. She emphasized her guiding principle: "Technology needs to be embedded within the subject of the artwork." https://lnkd.in/ep-ajVXq #premiereEU #AI #performingarts #MoCap #RoKoKosuits

The #PremiereEU round table “Extended Stages and Performing Practices” took place during the Premiere Open Day in Saint-Étienne on the 14th of October, 2024, at Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne. It included a discussion about the possibilities of #AI, #XR, and #3D technologies for extending performing arts stages and fostering interdisciplinary creation. Suzan Tunca Aggelos Gkiokas Carla Meller Gwendaline Bachini Alain Tremeau Pablo Palacio We made the recording for you, in case you didn’t have the chance to join us that day👉 https://lnkd.in/dRfWsxx4 #horizoneurope #performingarts

We are excited to announce that the joint cluster policy brief, prepared in collaboration with our Horizon Europe cluster partners, has been published and is now available in the Zenodo community. https://lnkd.in/dzmEAT-4 This brief provides valuable insights into policy frameworks aimed at supporting cultural heritage, fostering innovation, and promoting digital inclusion across Europe. The projects involved—MEMENTOES Project, MEMORISE_EU, MuseIT Project (Horizon Europe), PREMIERE, and SHIFT PROJECT (HORIZON EUROPE)—are working under the EU’s Horizon 2020 program, focusing on the #digitisation of #culturalheritage, including “born digital” heritage, ensuring its sustainable preservation and wide #accessibility. #policybrief #horizonEU #premiereEU