LabMONOM Studios for CTM Festival, BerlinJanuary 2025

As part of CTM Festival 2025, Wilding AI and MONOM hosted a four-day public lab, Generative Space is the Place, exploring the intersections of generative AI, storytelling, and spatial audio. The lab follows the artist and researcher Beth Coleman’s appeal for imagining an AI “that can be free—if not to imagine, then to generate—speeding through possibilities, junctures that are idiotic until they are not.” Running from January 23–26, the lab welcomed twelve international artists with diverse backgrounds selected through an open call. Each morning offered skill sharing sessions opened to the public led by Beth Coleman, Maurice Jones, Portrait XO, and Alexandre Saunier, introducing critical and creative applications of large-language models, generative sound tools, and spatialization in 4DSOUND.

Afternoons were reserved for lab participants to prototype collectively and experiment artistically in a shared spatial audio environment. Through the lab, the sound artists, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and developers generated spatial behaviors, translated prompts into movement, and investigated new compositional methods. The lab fostered rich and critical conversations around LLM, generativity and diverse creative practices. The final day culminated in a public listening session where the participants performed in duos, inviting audiences to interact with artistic responses to the wilder territories of AI. 

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