Artificial Intelligence is having a moment. Not just in popular culture, politics, and tech, but also at IDFA. In this final DocLab Playroom of IDFA 2024, some of the most prolific AI artists and creative technologists at IDFA this year open the hood of their machines in search of something more human. Instead of giving us endless variations of what we already know, can we ‘break’ the machine and make it say something we actually want it to say? And what happens if, instead of giving prompts, we ourselves are the ones being prompted?

Join us for a playful few hours of interactive demos and discussions. Participating projects include IDFA's opening film About a Hero (which developed its own AI to make a Werner Herzog film); the generative open-world podcast Drift; the judgmental photo booth AI & Me; the gamified human interaction performance Entropic Fields of Displacement by Pegah Tabassinejad; Polymorf with their AR-meets-AI project Future Botanica, and Oryza: Healing Ground, Tamara Shogaolu's filmic installation fusing generative AI with archival material on the Dutch colonial slave trade.  

Entrance is free. Feel free to bring your laptop if you want to test things on your own machine…