Wilding AI | since 2024

The rise of large-scale generative AI has driven powerful actors to push for narrative closure and technical stabilization, marking a return to the black box after a brief period of openness. Universalizing solutions to the governance, technical development and creative application of AI reinforce a particular normative stance — a visual, linguistic, or sonic “middle ground” that mirrors a statistical norm of representation.

The Wilding AI project resists premature attempts at narrative closure and technological stabilization. Wilding AI follows B. Coleman’s call for envisioning an AI “that can be free—if not to imagine then to generate—speeding through possibilities, junctures that are idiotic until they are not”. As a collaborative research-creation project, Wilding AI gathers a cohort of seasoned sound and media artists and emerging talent from Canada, Germany, Mexico and beyond to jointly explore alternative AI futures using LLMs, generative sound and spatial audio.

The Wilding AI Collective consists of Beth Coleman, Maurice Jones, Alexandre Saunier, Portrait XO, Daniela Huerta, Sahar Homami, Debashis Sinha, Pia Baltazar, Nao Tokui, Gadi Sassoon, and Heu Hsu.

Wilding AI is a collective research-creation project supported by MUTEK, MUTEK Mexico, CTM Festival, MONOM Studios, 4DSOUND, Neutone Inc., Concordia University, and the Society for Arts and Technology.

Wilding AI is made possible by round 14 of the Goethe-Institut International Coproduction Fund.