Wilding AI

The rise of large-scale generative AI has driven powerful actors to push for narrative closure and technical stabilization, marking a return to the black box after a brief period of openness. Universalizing solutions to the governance, technical development and creative application of AI reinforce a particular normative stance — a visual, linguistic, or sonic “middle ground” that mirrors a statistical norm of representation.

The Wilding AI project resists premature attempts at narrative closure and technological stabilization. Wilding AI follows B. Coleman’s call for envisioning an AI “that can be free—if not to imagine then to generate—speeding through possibilities, junctures that are idiotic until they are not”. As a collaborative research-creation project, Wilding AI gathers a cohort of seasoned sound and media artists and emerging talent from Canada, Germany, Mexico and beyond to jointly explore alternative AI futures using LLMs, generative sound and spatial audio.