Course: AI, Technoaesthetics / Robot-Human Ethics
Monday, 20th of February, 2017, 9:15 - 12:45
Introduction
Brainstorming: AI in Film - Characters and their individual representation of AI.
1 - 10 scala
Examples
- Westworld
- 2001 A Space Odysee
- Her
- Ex Machina
Explorative Projects: Inquiry into existing contemporal projects
(1) Box (Creator's Project)
(2) Deep Dream Generator
(3) Centaur Chess
(4) Jibo: The World's First Social Robot (MIT)
(5) Moral Machine (MIT)
(6) Hitchhike Robot
(7) De-Enigma: Playfully Empowering Autistic Children
(8) Tay Bot
Assignment 1
Interact with Eliza and Mitsuku: find out limitations, repetitions, semantics.
Assignment 2
Aesthetic Practice: Develop own fictional character/story/image of future AI-robot and human interaction.
Monday, 27th of February, 2017, 9:15 - 12:45
Historical examples: World Café Method
(1) Mechanical Turk
(2) Golem
(3) Pygmalion
(4) Karakuri
(5) Hephaestus
Film aesthetics of AI and narration design of a series start
First Episode: Westworld (20min)
First Episode: Humans (10min)
Monday, 06th of March, 2017 > no course due Carnival
Monday, 13th of March, 2017, 9:15 - 12:45
Excursion to the Vitra Design Exhibition:
Assignment
Make sketches of objects, philosophical discurses or design ideas of the exhibition.
Monday, 20th of March, 2017, 9:15 - 12:45
- Robot-Human Ethics
- Uncanny Valley
- Mentoring
Assignment
Project work
Monday, 3th of March, 2017, 9:15 - 12:45
- Project Presentations
- Watch: '2001 Space Odysee' (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
Student Works from the 'AI, Technoaesthetic and Robot-Human Ethic Course'
»We never see the same thing when we also hear; we don‘t hearthe same thing when we see as well.« Michel Chion ›The Voice in the Cinema‹