Quantum Computing with DLR, Parsons, and Sandberg Institute

In an international collaboration titled “How to show off Quantum Computing”, students of KISD and Parsons School of Design (The New School, New York) worked with researchers of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute for AI Safety and Security (Department of Quantum AI and Quantum-classical Hybrid Systems) in order to develop interactive installations that communicate essential ideas from the quantum computing world. The project collaboration included work sessions in Köln, New York, and Amsterdam (in collaboration with Sandberg Institute of Gerrit Rietveld Academie).

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Expanded Animation, Summer School in Vilnius

At the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Lithuanian Song Festival, KISD students are showing audiovisual works in the Visitor Center of the Lithuanian Parliament in Vilnius.

The works deal with the cultural heritage of the song festival “Dainų šventė”, which is listed by UNESCO as an intangible world cultural heritage. In the works, new animation technologies such as 3D reconstruction, generative graphics and generative ‘artificial intelligence’ are used.

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Hidden Layers Conference

At KISD, we will host the second edition of Hidden Layers Conference from June 12 to 15. The event brings together a diverse group of experts to collectively discuss and learn about artificial intelligence in design. Organized by the research project KITeGG on design and AI, it combines a public program of talks, an exhibition and workshops with internal meetings of the five art and design schools involved in the project.

Attendance is free and the public program will run from Wednesday evening, June 12, to Friday afternoon, June 14.

More information will be available in late May at www.hiddenlayers.de

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