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.
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)
Excursion to the Vitra Design Exhibition:
Assignment
Make sketches of objects, philosophical discurses or design ideas of the exhibition.
- Robot-Human Ethics
- Uncanny Valley
- Mentoring
Assignment
Project work
- Project Presentations
- Watch: '2001 Space Odysee' (1968, Stanley Kubrick)