LabMUTEK Forum August 2024
On August 23, 2024, MUTEK Forum Lab #1 marked the first public experiment in the Wilding AI project. The first phase of Wilding AI deploys what Born and Barry (2013) call public experiments, which produce new relations between “knowledge, things, locations and persons that did not exist before.” At the Studio Hydro Quebec, the lab began with an opening talk by artist-researchers Beth Coleman, Maurice Jones, and Pía Baltazar followed by a generative, spatial sound demonstration by transdisciplinary artist Alexandre Saunier, and short think-and-feel provocations by Portrait XO, Gadi Sassoon, and Marie-Ève Levasseur, all working at the critical forefront of algorithmic and AI field. 

Building on the system framework created at the Hexagram residency, MUTEK Forum lab focused on developing the memory guidelines for the LLMs, allowing the sonic agents to build long term memory, which could then be translated into recipes, then code and movement. The lab raised new questions of meaningful movement and spatial bodily awareness of sonic agents. As the first in a series of public experiments, the lab invited artists and audiences alike to collectively imagine wild alternatives to dominant AI models through sound, space, and speculative design.