Muse oder Monster – Prompting for Paradise
How are we dealing with AI? Are we inspired, overwhelmed, worried? For the Kulturkonferenz Ruhr 2024, Max Schweder and I created interconnected interactive digital artworks: We developed an AI chat assistant to allow visitors to reflect on AI with the AI assistant itself. Based on the conversation, the AI assistant firstly evaluates how AI is situated between the extremes of a supportive and inspiring muse and a destructive and evil monster. Secondly, the AI assistant also evaluates the user's own behaviour towards the assistant. Using their smartphones, conference participants become part of an artistic process: by interacting with the AI assistant, they generate visuals for the final performance in real time. The resulting AI-generated images are prompted by a second dedicated assistant and visually interpret the entire conversation the user had with the assistant. A sound-responsive digital art performance at the end of the conference, created and performed by Max Schweder, presents the content generated by visitors and AI assistants alike in the form of a live mashup.
A production by Save the World in collaboration with Max Schweder and Tobias Hartmann, the duo CYLVESTER for interactive digital art.
Press Release RVR Ruhr 19.09.24
Kulturkonferenz Ruhr 2024 – 19.09.24 Lichtburg Essen
Credits
AI Chatbot Development: Tobias Hartmann
Music and Sound: CYLVESTER (Tobias Hartmann, Max Schweder)
Visual Art and Interactive Performance: Max Schweder
Idea and Concept: Max Schweder, Tobias Hartmann, Nicola Bramkamp
Dramaturgy: Nicola Bramkamp (Save the World)
Scenography: Anna Tenti
Research Question Impulses: Anna Tenti