4 October - 24 November
Poetics of Prompting: A crash course in speaking machine
Language has shaped the Internet from its very beginnings. But with the rise of generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney, which are built on large language models, digital takes on a new dimension.
Whatever you want an AI tool to do, the prompt, which are the instructions you give, must be written. Since the emergence of ‘AI for all’ barely two years ago, there has been a proliferation of courses in ‘prompt engineering’. But is it just a matter of engineering, or does interacting with AI actually require creative writing to go beyond the predictable? What does it mean to speak the language of the tool well? And how can we find ways to talk with machines instead of as machines?
With Poetics of Prompting, The Hmm and MU Hybrid Art House explore the new languages that emerge from and around the collaboration between AI and human creativity, between prompting and poetry. Through new, existing, and adapted works, interactive projects, and workshops by artists and designers, we explore the critical, playful and experimental relationships between humans and their AI tools. Join us as we feedback and feedforward with the machine, to shape our new language together.
The exhibition features work by Radical Data, Kyle MacDonald & Lauren McCarthy, Sarah Ciston, Katarina Petrovic, Shumon Basar & Y7, Yacht, Sebastian Pardo & Riel Roch-Decter, Alan Warburton, Richard Vijgen, Simone Niquille, The Hmm and AIxDesign, Sebastian Schmieg, Morehshin Allahyari, Eryk Salvaggio, Ren Loren Britton, and Mariana Fernandez Mora.
🎉 Opening 🎉
📅 Date: 04 October 2024
🕗 Time: 19.30 – 22.00 CEST
📍 Location: MU Hybrid Art House
Poetics of Prompting: A crash course in speaking machine is on view from 4 October until 24 November 2024
Please visit the MU website for opening hours and ticket information
💙 This event is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, het Cultuurfonds, and the Netherland-America Foundation.
