Unrehearsed Futures: Conversations with the Chimere Communities

Description

In this conversation, we invited members of the Chimere Communities Project, a multicultural global network of practitioners whose work centres on developing an AI called Chimere. Of their work, the group states: Developed in open source in 2021, during the AiiA festival in Geneva, this artistic and multimodal artificial intelligence “understands” text, images and sound in a linked way. Chimère is an evolving, community-based project conceived by artist Jonathan O’Hear and his engineer brother Timothy O’Hear. The starting point is the desire, on the one hand, to create a non-human entity that could “collaborate” artistically and, on the other, to propose an AI closer to us, modelled differently than those proposed by the large dominant technological groups.

Watch the conversation with co-founder and collaborators Jonathan, Qondiswa and Maria as we meandered through the complex terrain that is AI’s growing influence on industry, particularly the arts.

Period	16 Jan 2025
Event type	Seminar
Location	Mumbai, IndiaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International