State research funding approves research training group

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Following the positive funding decision by the Ministry of Science, Research, Equality and Districts of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the graduate college ARTILACS - Artistic Intelligence in Latent Creative Spaces will begin its work next year under the leadership of the HfMT Hamburg.

The artistic-scientific joint project of four Hamburg universities - HAW Hamburg, HCU Hamburg, HFBK Hamburg and HfMT Hamburg - under the overall direction of Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu (HfMT) is scheduled to run for three years. Benjamin Helmer and Dr. Benjamin Sprick were instrumental in developing the content and formulating the proposal. One doctoral position will be filled at each of the four locations, dealing with the artistic and scientific aspects of the research training group. There will also be one coordination position and one post-doctoral position at the HfMT.

ARTILACS focuses on the concept of "artistic intelligence". This addresses a critical-affirmative examination of developments in artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of artistic practice. The aim is to investigate the extent to which a hybrid combination of AI-supported, latent spaces and traditional knowledge spaces opens up opportunities for new forms of creativity and knowledge in artistic practice, which can be methodologically summarized in the concept of "artistic intelligence". During the duration of the project, a combination of science, teaching and artistic practices from the various universities is planned.

HfMT President Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Sprick: "The recently approved research training group enables the HfMT, together with the participating universities, to further develop artistic and scientific research in Hamburg towards national and international visibility. I would like to sincerely thank the participating colleagues for their work on the successful application."

Project leader Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu: "The ARTILACS Research Training Group gives the HfMT the unique opportunity to address one of the most urgent questions in collaboration with Hamburg universities: What is the state of humanity's creativity at a time when artificial intelligence is preparing to take over essential tasks of knowledge acquisition and artistic production? Will we allow ourselves to be turned into subjects by machines or will we succeed in entering into latent - i.e. as yet unexplored - spaces of knowledge and action in dialog with AI and thus develop new forms of artistic intelligence?"