About Us

Wilding AI is a nomadic and polymorphic research-creation lab. It questions the current domestication of artificial intelligence into predefined operational modes, aiming instead to foster new avenues for creative expression, particularly in spatial audio. As a collective of artist-researchers, we reject the commodification of technology. Instead, we engage with it poetically and experimentally by (mis)using, hijacking, or outright breaking machine-learning media generators to explore new forms of human-machine collaboration.

The collective is composed of Pía Baltazar, Beth Coleman, Sahar Homami, Daniela Huerta, Maurice Jones, Tegan Maharaj, Heu Hsu, Alexandre Saunier, Gadi Sassoon, Debashis Sinha, Nao Tokui and Portrait XO. Centering public engagement, the collective has focused on R&D residencies and open-studio presentations at leading international venues, including MUTEK and SAT Montreal, MUTEK Mexico, MONOM Studios for CTM Festival Berlin, and 4DSOUND for FIBER Festival in Amsterdam.


Co-leads

Co-director of the Wilding AI project, Beth Coleman is an artist and researcher.

Maurice Jones (he/him) is an artist, curator, and researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada.

Alexandre Saunier is an artist, professor at LUCA–KU Leuven, and senior researcher at the ZHdK.

Pia Baltazar is an intermedia composer, indisciplinary researcher and directress of arts-sciences development at SAT Montreal.
Contributing Artists
Debashis Sinha is an award-winning sound designer and composer based in Toronto, Canada.

Portrait XO (she/they) is an independent researcher and multimodal artist. 

Sahar Homami (she/they), interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin/Montreal. 


Daniela Huerta is a Mexican multimedia artist, composer, and researcher based in Berlin.

Gadi Sassoon is a classically trained composer, performer and transmedia electronic artist from Milan.

Artist, DJ, and researcher Nao Tokui leads Qosmo and Neutone, based in Tokyo, Japan.

Heu Hsu is a sound artist and researcher based in Helsinki. 

Tegan Maharaj is a professor at Mila and a co-founder of Climate Change AI.




Partners
 

Wilding AI is a collective research-creation project supported by MONOM Studios, MUTEK, MUTEK Mexico, CTM Festival, Fiber Festival, 4DSOUND, Neutone Inc., Concordia University, Milieux Instiute, the Applied AI Institute, and the Society for Arts and Technology.

The project is made possible by round 14 of the International Coproduction Fund of the Goethe-
Institut.