Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art Association
Editors: Lily Díaz-Kommonen, Juhani Tenhunen, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits
This volume, documenting the Hybrid Labs Symposium held at Aalto University in 2018 as part of the traveling Renewable Futures conference series, offers a comprehensive exploration of hybridity within transdisciplinary creative research practices. The articles within this volume challenge the perceived lack of historical self-awareness in new media, underscoring its transformative impact on contemporary culture and human experience.
Contributors address hybridity’s implications in modern contexts, from AI and digital interfaces to bio-artistic expressions. The hybrid’s role in political and social realms is also examined, illustrating how hybrid media systems blend traditional and new media to reshape power dynamics and cultural narratives. The volume advocates for the hybrid as a conduit for novel epistemologies, blending diverse traditions and fostering innovative cultural expressions. It emphasizes the necessity of critical thinking and creative practices in addressing global challenges, proposing hybrid methodologies as pathways to new solutions.
The volume consists of Section 1 – Theorising the Hybrid, Section 2 – Dimensions of Hybridity, Section 3 – Hybrid Media: Imagination and Practices that contain articles from the Hybrid Labs Symposium held at Aalto University in 2018 and Section 4 – Deep Hybrid – Latest developments in Riga and Liepaja, Latvia, including the visual documentation and catalogues of the exhibitions of the RIXC Art Science Festival 2022 (Splintered Realities) and 2023 (Crypto, Art and Climate).
Authors of the articles: Kristin Bergaust; Samir Bhowmik and Jussi Parikka; Maija Demitere; Lily Díaz-Kommonen; Saara Hacklin; Nigel Helyer; Volker Helzle, Tina Ohnmacht and Jonas Trottnow; Laura Hopes; AnneMarie Maes; Polixeni Mantzou and Maria Nikoli; Ellen Pearlman; Laura Plana Gracia; Inge Römgens; Akira Sano, Tomoyasu Yoshitomi, Kenichi Masaki, Yumi Watanabe and Hisanobu Satoh; Irina Shapiro; Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits; Miranda Smitheram; Ulla Taipale; Judith Van Der Elst; Lauren Wooley.
Publishers: RIXC Center for New Media Culture (Riga, Latvia) with Aalto University (Espoo, Finland).
Peer-reviewed journal & book series on digital art, art and science, and artistic research
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