Workshops and Film screenings

Digital Discourses 2023

Workshops

1. AI Technology in Assisting Victims of Online Gender-Based Violence

This workshop will enhance knowledge and promote best practices in using AI technology to assist victims of online gender-based violence by identifying and removing non-consensual intimate content from platforms.

Participants will learn about:

What online gender-based violence is,
How to use stopncii.org, and
How to use takeitdown.ncmec.org.

Facilitator: ICT Watch is a civil society organisation that has initiated a number of digital literacy initiatives and movements in Indonesia.

2. Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Hoaxes

This workshop will discuss how AI can be used to manipulate information that can have an impact on the emergence of misinformation and disinformation, as well as how we can address it.

Participants will learn about:

The use of AI for voice and video manipulation
Case study: Do fact-checking organizations in Indonesia use AI?
The use of platforms to detect manipulated information.

Facilitator: ICT Watch is a civil society organisation that has initiated a number of digital literacy initiatives and movements in Indonesia.

3. Decoding AI : How Biased AI Impact Your Career

In this workshop we explore how biased algorithms can impact your future and career. Delve into the perils of AI in study placement allocation and company hiring processes, uncovering potential career setbacks due to biased filters. Empower yourself with awareness to navigate an equitable digital world.

Facilitator: Lena Rickenberg works at the Think Tank iRights.Lab as a project lead for digital mobility and is also part of the team responsible for research and communication about AI and Ethics. She studied Political Management and worked in the startup and non-profit sector before.

Reimagining Creativity: How AI is Redefining the Future of Arts

4. Redefining the Future of Music: Discussion

If making music now is as easy as writing a line of text, what will become of the music industry in the future? Does AI create opportunities to make it easier for more people to enter the music industry or does it reduce the number of music professionals? Is this a new era in the music industry or is it the end of authenticity?

Speakers

Patrick Hartono is an electroacoustic composer, audiovisual artist, and music researcher with a strong academic background.

Monita Tahalea, a singer and songwriter. She started her career in music after she became the top 4 finalist of Indonesian Idol 2005.

Moderator

Tomy Herseta is a designer, creative director, electronic musician and lecturer.

Film Screenings

The animated film series AVA – Artificial V Art places a special focus on artificial intelligence. Art and artificiality seem to be mutually dependent and open a new approach to questions of authorship and the definition of art.

Hysteresis (Robert Seidel, 2021)

In the experimental film Hysteresis, Seidel's analogue drawings and digital processing merge with the queer performance of Tsuki. At the same time, the film takes the use of AI to absurdity to reveal the frenetic, delicate and extravagant imagery of hysteria and hysteresis.

© Robert Seidel
Galaxy (Dagmar Schürrer, 2020)

The narrator in the moving image work Galaxy is technology itself. The story is generated by an algorithm and offers an interpretation of an encounter of love and disappointment and tells about the brief meeting of the two characters Touch and Long Swipe.

© Dagmar Schürrer/BirgitvonBally
Fest (Nikita Diakur, 2018)

A suburbian blockparty. Rave, drone, bbq and icecream. Then a stunt. Youtube inspired and simulated.

© Nikita Diakur
Random (Marc Adrian, 1963)

A black box of absolute intentionlessness had to be found for the great void from which anything can emerge. This is how Random came into being, which is considered one of the first "computer films" ever.

© Marc Adrian
Raum/Zeit (Subdream, 2011)

While the intrinsic beauty of the two dimensional Mandelbrot set was known since the early 1980s, it was only at the end of the 2000s when the search for a true three dimensional representation was intensified. Raum/Zeit is a showcase for some of these candidates.

© Subdream
Aquateque (Einar Fehrholz, Above&Below, 2021)

Aquateque is a short film exploring the river Ruhr through a variety of new media technologies. The project combines AI and AR tools to explore sustainable ways of creating digital materials which merge nature and computation.

© Einar Fehrholz, Above&Below
Auto Nom (Julius Steinhauser, 2017)

Auto Nom offers an upbeat alternative on unexpected consequences of autonomous mobility. "Autonomous Rolf", the fictitious self-driving classical German car gets under your hood with its freedom loving behaviour.

© Julius Steinhauser

Dear Humans (Joo Peter, 2023)

Short film 5 minutes, 2023
Directed by Joo Peter
Written by ChatGPT and Joo Peter
Characters and voice by Synthesia and the author.

Singularity is knocking at the door. In this satirical dystopian short film, AI in human form reveals itself with haunting words. The speaker seems completely lifelike human and yet, like the following 10 speakers, is completely artificial. Or is a real actor, the author underneath one of the characters?

5. Behind the News: How Harian Kompas Uses AI

In this workshop, Harian Kompas will reveal how they embrace AI technology to strengthen their journalistic work to add value to Kompas' digital products for the public. We will see first-hand examples of the use of AI technology that has been implemented in Kompas. In addition, we will also see how Kompas uses AI technology to improve the quantity and quality of daily work.

Facilitator: Cahyo Listyanto is the General Manager of Technology, Product & Data at Harian Kompas (Kompas.id).

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