Artificial Intelligems
In 2020, Greg Scheirlinckx and Anneleen Swillen founded Artificial Intelligems to explore the artistic potential, as well as roles, impact and challenges of machine learning within jewellery.
At the time, they noticed a lack of academic exploration into AI and contemporary jewelry. Building on Swillen's PhD in arts, in which digital media and co-creation played a key role, they sought to envision jewellery beyond a human-centric perspective. Intrigued by the potential of self-learning algorithms and inspired by ML experiments in fine arts, they began pondering the implications of working with ML on how jewellery is made, worn, presented, and experienced. Can machine learning inspire novel concepts and methodologies for jewellery practice? What opportunities and challenges might this present?
Currently, 3 years later, Artificial Intelligems is growing into an experimental, fluid, interdisciplinary, collective and platform working on the intersection of jewellery, graphic design, music composition, XR performance, dance, data science and machine learning.
Together, they aim to connect people, artistic practices, and technologies to explore more-than-human collaboration and co-creation.
Artificial Intelligems connects people, artistic practices and technologies to explore more-than-human co-creation with machine learning. Currently, this fluid collective consists of dr. Anneleen Swillen (expanded jewellery practice involving research in the arts, education, curation and writing, and co-founder of Artificial Intelligems), Greg Scheirlinckx (composer, sound engineer, and data scientist and co-founder of Artificial Intelligems) in collab with prof. dr. Ine Vanoeveren (XR-performer, contemporary flutist, artistic researcher), Guus Vandeweerd (graphic designer) and lux&auma (a dance collective consisting of Carla Petzolt and Miriam Taschler).
Artificial Intelligems emerged within Anneleen’s current postdoctoral research on 'Jewellery phenomena in a phygital age. (Post-)speculative reflections on co-creating, -presenting and -experiencing jewellery in a digital culture' at Hasselt University and PXL- MAD School of Arts, Hasselt (BE).
Ponton Magazine AR Filter
In the Fall of 2022, Artificial Intelligems was invited by Ponton magazin for a contribution to their first issue. For Ponton, Artificial Intelligems collaborated with photographer Alexander Popelier and model Ebenezer Ankrah to create a unique photo to intra-act with the AR Ornamutations. Discover this phygital piece in the. public
Avatars
In my work with Artificial Intelligems, I've designed a series of avatars to represent the collective's jewelry pieces, contributing to their more-than-human research. Through these avatars, we're redefining the presentation and perception of jewelry in the digital age, highlighting the embodiment of an object, and what it means to become someone or something else.
Ornamutations and Humans Workshop
Within the Artificial Intelligems collective, we've developed a series of workshops that seamlessly blend the digital and physical realms, creating a unique 'phygital' experience. Our approach involves the use of projectors to cast videos and images onto translucent textiles, breathing life into the digital creations. This technique introduces a tangible, three-dimensional dynamic to the avatars and 3D objects crafted for Artificial Intelligems.
By doing so, these workshops serve as a creative laboratory, where the digital entities are not just visualized but are given a physical form and presence. This method allows for a more immersive and interactive exploration of the objects, bridging the gap between the virtual and the real world. It's an experimental journey, aiming to embody our creations within a space that is both digital and physical.
By Dr.Anneleen Swillen, Senneke Van de Wygaert, Esther Verstreken and Guus vandeweerd