The City Dreams in AI: Speculative drifting through Delhi

Join us for an exciting two-day workshop where we explore the creative potential of AI tools to craft speculative audio-visual cityscapes. In this immersive experience, participants will embark on city-drifting excursions to gather sights and sounds from Delhi. These will then be combined with AI processing tools to build imaginative audio and visual landscapes.
 

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Led by Ajaibghar (Nanditi and Computational Mama), this workshop will guide you through spatial listening, speculative world-building, and audio processing using AI. Our goal is to help participants integrate AI tools into their creative processes, enhancing their existing workflows.

WHAT TO EXPECT

• Creative Exploration: Engage in city-drifting to collect unique visual and auditory material from Delhi, which will be used to create speculative audio-visual pieces.
• Hands-On Learning: Gain practical experience with AI tools for spatial listening, world-building, and audio processing.
• Collaboration: Pair up with fellow participants to develop short audio-reactive videos, leveraging the speculative sounds and visuals collected.
• Showcase: Present your creations at the Participants’ Showcase on the second day (5 PM - 7 PM on 06.10.24), sharing your innovative work with others.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

We welcome creators from all disciplines—whether you’re involved in experimental audio making, world-building, moving image creation, game design, or the future of art and design education. No prior coding or AI experience is needed.

Please Note
As the number of places available is limited, it is necessary to apply using the application form. If accepted, participation in both workshop days (11:00 AM-5:00 PM) is mandatory.

ABOUT AJAIBGHAR

© Ajaibghar Nanditi and Computational Mama are the co-founders of Ajaibghar, a creative technology studio and lab focused on art, culture, and futures. Ajaibghar is a transdisciplinary practice in the arts and culture space, leveraging emerging technologies, experience design, cultural strategy, and community building.

Their work has been featured at the India Art Fair, Serendipity Arts Festival, Singapore Swiss Week, Iterations Creative Coding Utrecht, Wildcity, Vogue India, Vice Media, ACRI, among others.

Ajaibghar also emphasizes community building to foster artistic collaborations, research, and capacity-building in the tech-art space. Their initiatives include Blob Labs, a Gen-Z research lab focused on speculative futures; code.drift, a beginner-friendly creative coding workshop series; dra.ft, a community for emergent ideas in text; and LAB59, a community lab and studio in Udaipur.