EXHIBITION

Live Ideas Festival

8. bis 12. Mai 2019 New York Live Arts Center, New York, USA

Christa Sommerer und Laurent Mignonneau, Leitungsteam der Abteilung Interface Cultures an der Kunstuniversität Linz, beteiligen sich am Festival. As part of Live Ideas 2019, AI: Are You Brave Enough for the Brave New World, the Ford Foundation Live Gallery hosts four interactive installations including "Portrait on the Fly" by Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer, See Sound, and Xoromancy through May 28th. Free and open to the public, an opening reception will be held on Wednesday, May 8th at 6:30 PM Live Ideas, New York Live Arts’ annual humanities festival of arts and ideas, will interrogate a future with AI, artificial intelligence, that promises to revolutionize human existence. The festival will bring together experts, thinkers, artists, and policy makers during five days of conversations, performances, and cultural interventions.
Live Ideas is an annual humanities festival of arts and ideas, exploring the ideas, controversies and thinking informing a different bodily-oriented theme each time out. Past festivals have included The Worlds of Oliver Sacks, James Baldwin, This Time!, SKY-Force and Wisdom in America Today, curated by Laurie Anderson, MENA/Future-Cultural Transformations in the Middle East North Africa Region, Mx’d Messages curated by Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, and RADICAL VISION co-curated with Brian Tate | The Tate Group and the Hannah Arendt Center. newyorklivearts.org/opening-reception-live-ideas-2019