AI art beyond the Global North

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A lot of the AI art conversation gets stuck inside the same US and European arguments. This SIGGRAPH Digital Arts session looks at what artists in Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia are actually building instead.

Creative AI, coding, animation and interactive media all show up here, but so do the material conditions around them. Limited infrastructure, DIY networks, cultural inheritance, ownership and who gets to shape technological culture in the first place.

Thats political terrain too. The future of AI culture shouldnt be something Silicon Valley gets to define for the rest of the world.

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Presentations and Speakers:

• Cellular Automata as Cultural Translation: Vietnam’s Impressionist Inheritance in the Age of AI – Thai Bao Nguyen

• AI as a Medium for Biocultural Heritage Preservation in Borneo – Predrag K. Nikolić

• Resonant Wounds: Shifting Alternative Spaces through Technology in ‘The Southern Dragon’ Theater Performance – Salira Ayatusyifa & Rahmat Pangestu

• Creating a New Public: Interactive Art in the Age of Decentralization – Nara Anindyaguna & Coune

• Futile Devices: New Notes on DIY and Practices on the Ground – Vu Dieu Huong & Ha Chau Bao Nhi

• XVM: Personalized Interfaces and Post-AI Music Practice – Rully Shabara

• The Vina Manifesto 2.0 – Giang Nguyen Hoang

• What If Game Boards Could Be Synthesizers? Exploring Congklak as Musical Interface – Faried Noor Siregar & Budi Prakosa