GAES: Scientific Exploration Artistic Group

Art-science seminar

The Quai des Savoirs in collaboration with Atelier Arts Sciences, the MIAI Grenoble and ANITI, organise a  time of scientific exploration around artifical ntelligence  for artists.

This time of discovery is conceived as a collective immersion between all the participants, both artists and scientists. The objective is to  transmit knowledge on the subject of artifical intelligence, provided by the invited scientists, in order to give rise to exchanges and confrontations between scientific and artistic imaginations and collective and individual representations.

The GAES is organised in two parts:

  • a first session in Toulouse at theQuai des Savoirs
  • a second session inGrenoble at theAtelier Arts Science in Y.SPOT

Exchange, discussion and debate are the keywords of GAES, so that each participant can nurture and develop their own personal visions of artificial intelligence.

Presentation

The ten or so artists selected for GAES are well known on the contemporary art scene. They are directors, authors, actors, visual artists, photographers, choreographers, digital artists…. They belong to a variety of artistic fields, but share a common interest: to expand their knowledge and compare their representations of artificial intelligence, and to feed their curiosity and imaginations on the subject.

GAES involves local researchers and research institutes such as MIAI in Grenoble, ANITI for the Toulouse session, CEA and Grenoble Alpes University. The scientists will share and pass on their knowledge, and expose their specific fields of research, around AI and for the benefit of the artists. Beyond the objectives of transmitting knowledge, they will confront the artists with their representations and opinions on artificial intelligence.

Laurent Chicoineau, director of the Quai des Savoirs

Marina Léonard, head of programming at the Quai des savoirs

Jérôme Villeneuve, director of Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences

GAES 2024: Prediction sciences

The development of digital tools, from the first calculators to today’s artificial intelligences, has enabled us to deploy ever more effective practices to measure and model our environment. The primary aim is to predict short- and long-term developments and trends (from tomorrow’s weather forecast to the basis for analysis in the Meadows Report and regular IPCC reports).

What are the tools of observation, measurement and scientific modeling? How can they help us understand the world and its evolution?

Humans are torn between their need to predict the future and their refusal to accept certain predictions. These forecasts then become fodder for our imaginations. What are the dominant imaginaries in our societies? How do research imaginations interact with those of artists?

What insights into our environment can digital technologies and artificial intelligence still provide? Why are certain predictions not accepted, nor certain changes implemented by our societies?

2024 artists and scientists

Gaël Musquet

Scientist

Hacker and meteorologist, Founders of the OpenStreetMap association

Laure Raynaud

Scientist

Researcher at the Centre National de Recherche Météorologique in Toulouse

Marie-Julie Bourgeois

Artist

Specialist in design-fiction

Rémy Faveroult

Scientist

Doctoral student at Quai des Savoirs / LARA-SEPPIA Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès

Élodie Gallien-Guedy

Scientist

Doctoral student in Language Sciences, specializing in Geolinguistics and Regional Heritage, at the GIPSA-lab laboratory

Jules Benveniste

Artist

Author and writer

Nicolas Hervé

Scientist

Deputy Director of UMR EFTS (Education – Training – Work – Knowledge) at Toulouse Jean Jaurès University.

Gautier Juret-Rafin

Scientist

Phd student in Italian history at the University of Grenoble-Alpes

Maryne Lanaro

Artist

Artistic director of the Grand Dehors collective

Jérôme Cochet

Artist

Director, actor and engineer

Vincent Lonjou

Scientist

Doctor in Astrophysics, Space Sciences and Techniques at CNES

Lionel Zawadzki

Scientist

Remote sensing engineer specialized in Earth observation applied to the environment at CNES

Anaïs Tondeur

Artist

Circus artist

Raquel Rodriguez Suquet

Scientist

Telecommunications engineer at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Frédéric Courtade

Scientist

CNES, currently head of GEIPAN (Groupe d’Etudes et d’Information sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non identifiés)

Pascal Perrachon

Scientist

CNES, Exploration and Human Spaceflight Division

Sylvain Darrifourcq

Artist

Percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, improviser and composer

MARIE DILASSER

Artist

Writer

Fanny Soriano

Artist

Circus artist

Pierre Boutte

Scientist

Program management in 2016 to coordinate the launch of the pre-project phases of orbital systems.

GAES 2022: transdisciplinary AI

Each session dealt with themes relating to artificial intelligence and the specific features of the regions in which it took place.

Toulouse

For the Toulouse session, the proposed themes were: AI and neuroscience, AI and work, AI and biology


Grenoble

The Grenoble session focus on the following themes: AI and ecology, AI society and ethics, AI and frugality/sobriety.

HIghlights

– Veronika Akopova, dancer and choreographer
– Stéphane Bissière, composer, new media artist
– Justine Emard, multimedia artist.
 Isis Fahmy, stage director – Yvain Juillard, comedian and stage director – Béatrice Lartigue, design artist
 – Tamara Leites, design artist Baptiste Milesi, illustrator, graphic designer and artistic director of Transmii Studio
– Thibault Rossigneux, author, actor and stage director
– Elisa Sanchez, author, performer, video artist
– Romain Tardy, artist, video mapping
– Xavier Hollebecq, scenograph, teacher

– Malik Ghallab – Emeritus Research Director, CNRS
Yann Ferguson – Phd in sociology, researcher at Icam Toulouse, associated with the Centre d’étude et de Recherche Travail Organisation Pourvoir (Certop).
Frédérik Garcia – Artificial intelligence researcher at INRAE’s MIAT (Applied Mathematics and Computer Science) unit in Toulouse, France
James L. Crowley – Professor at Grenoble Polytechnic Institute
Martial Mermillod – PhD, Full Professor, Director, LPNC (UMR CNRS 5105), “Neuromorphic Systems” Chair, MIAI, Grenoble Alpes University
Gilles Bastin – Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Political Studies, Grenoble Alpes University
Emmanuel Barbier – Interim research manager at GIN
Sophie Achard – PhD, CNRS, LJK, Grenoble, France
Mathilde Proponnet-Guerault – Co-founder of Reckonect and responsible for product development and scientific collaborations.

GAES 2021: Exploring Artificial Intelligence

Toulouse

For the Toulouse session, the proposed themes were: AI and transport, AI and language, AI and robotics.


Grenoble

For the Grenoble session, issues related to the following themes were addressed: AI and health, AI society and ethics, AI and the environment, AI realities and fantasies.

Golnaz Behrouznia, plastic artist
Arnaud Chevalier, comedian and digital artist
Giuseppe Chico et Barbara Matijevic, stage directors
Joséphine Chaffin, writer and stage director
Jean-François Matignon, stage directors
Thierry Collet, magician
LI-CAM, writer
Marc Rigaud, technician
Marie Vauzelle, writer and stage director
Dorothée Zumstein, writer
Jacques Vincey, stage director

Françoise Berthoud, founder of the Eco-Info group, specialist in the environmental impact of digital technology, coach at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research)
Thomas Burger, data science researcher (CEA and CNRS)
Eric Gaussier, Director of the MIAI, Director of the Grenoble Computing Laboratory (2015-2020), researcher in data science and specialist in artificial intelligence (UGA)
Frédéric Heitzmann, head of the “Embedded Artificial Intelligence” strategic program (CEA-LETI)
Thierry Ménissier, professor, philosopher, head of the “Ethics & AI” chair at the MIAI, Grenoble Institute of Philosophy, Master in Innovation Management, Project Management and Valorization (UGA)
Serge Slama, professor of public law at Grenoble-Alpes University, specialist in human rights and AI and whistle-blowing (UGA)
Assia Tria, scientific manager for the SSSEC, in charge of scientific activities, resourcing, setting up collaborative projects and European referent for security (CEA). Author of numerous articles on hardware security, cryptography and biometrics.
Denis Trystam, Professor of Computer Science at Grenoble INP, specialist in the impact of artificial intelligence on the environment, director of the “Edge Intelligence” chair (studying distributed learning) at MIAI. Member of the Eco-Info collective (INP)
Jocelyne Troccaz, Director of Research at the CNRS, specializing in the development of robots to assist medical and surgical procedures, and medical image processing. Since 2016, she has been director of the national labex CAMI on the theme of computer-assisted medical and surgical gestures, and co-director of a chair at the MIAI Artificial Intelligence Institute (since 2019) (CNRS).
Sandrine Voros, INSERM research fellow in the “computer-assisted medical and surgical gestures” (GMCAO) team of the TIMC-IMAG laboratory (INSERM & UGA)
Edwige Armand, teacher-researcher in Art and Culture at INP Purpan, Toulouse
Olivier Stasse, head of the Gepeto group in charge of humanoid robots in the Gepeto team at LAAS-CNRS
Guillaume Sarthou, PhD student in robotics at the LAAS-CNRS laboratory
Martin Jacquet, PhD student in robotics at LAAS/CNRS
Antonio Enrique Jimenez, researcher at the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS-CNRS)
Rachid Alami, a pioneer in cognitive robotics, research director at the head of the RIS -Robotics and Interactions- team and holder of the Cognitive and Interactive Robotics chair at the Toulouse Interdisciplinary Institute for Artificial Intelligence ANITI
Simon Lacroix, researcher at LAAS/CNRS
Amandine Mayima, researcher at LAAS/CNRS
Guilhem Buisan, robotics researcher
Mohamed Kaâniche, CNRS research director in the Secure Computing and Fault Tolerance research group
Frédéric Dehais, teacher-researcher at Asie-Supaero – Human Factors and Neuro-ergonomics Department
Daniel Delahaye, Professor, Head of the Optimization and Machine Learning group at ENAC
Philippe Muller, Senior lecturer (associate professor) in computer science HDR, co-leader of the MELODI group, member of the AOC (Machine learning) project-team, associated with Leila Amgoud’s ANITI Chair on Empowering data-driven AI through argumentation and persuasion. Head of the Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Master’s program (IARF) with Thomas Pellegrini.
Chloé Braud, CNRS researcher

HIghlights