WILDING AI

WAI (Wilding AI) is a nomadic and polymorphic research-creation lab. It questions the current domestication of artificial intelligence into predefined operational modes, aiming instead to foster new avenues for creative expression, particularly in spatial audio. As a collective of artist-researchers, we reject the commodification of technology. Instead, we engage with it poetically and experimentally by (mis)using, hijacking, or outright breaking machine-learning media generators to explore new forms of human-machine collaboration.

The collective is composed of Pía Baltazar, Beth Coleman, Sahar Homami, Daniela Huerta, Maurice Jones, Tegan Maharaj, Heu Hsu, Alexandre Saunier, Gadi Sassoon, Debashis Sinha, Nao Tokui and Portrait XO. Centering public engagement, the collective has focused on R&D residencies and open-studio presentations at leading international venues, including MUTEK and SAT Montreal, MUTEK Mexico, MONOM Studios for CTM Festival Berlin, and 4DSOUND for FIBER Festival in Amsterdam.

Wilding AI is a collective research-creation project supported by MONOM Studios, MUTEK, MUTEK Mexico, CTM Festival, Fiber Festival, 4DSOUND, Neutone Inc., Concordia University, Milieux Instiute, the Applied AI Institute, and the Society for Arts and Technology.

The project is made possible by round 14 of the International Coproduction Fund of the Goethe-Institut.