Art & Artificial Intelligence
Adrian Notz, curator at the ETH AI Center
Throughout European history, modern humans have grappled with the dichotomy between man and machine, aesthetics and rationality, the longing for nature and the indigenous as a contrast to industrial alienation. Artists, but also society in general, are taking an interest in this ancient topic. Interestingly, art’s calls for attention are resonating in the spheres of science and technology, and it is the development of artificial intelligence that has brought this encounter about. The technology appears to be a decisive factor in the future of the human race. The work of the AI+Art Initiative at the ETH AI Center in Zurich is dedicated to these very questions and topics, aiming to contribute a different type of intelligence through artistic interventions and strategies.
Adrian Notz (born in Zurich in 1977) is a curator at the ETH AI Center, the curator behind the Art Encounters Biennale 2023 in Timişoara, a mentor in creative strategy and vision at the European Center for Contemporary Art in Cluj (ECCA), the king of Elgaland-Vargaland, an NSK diplomat and Chevalier de la Tombe de Bakunin. From 2020 to 2022, he was a curator with the Tichy Ocean Foundation. From 2012 to 2019, he was the artistic director of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, where he had started out as an assistant curator and co-director. From 2010 to 2015, he managed the Department of Visual Arts at the Higher Technical College for Design in St. Gallen. Adrian Notz has organised and curated countless exhibitions, conferences, campaigns and interventions in collaboration with international artists, activists and thinkers, both at the Cabaret Voltaire and around the world.