AI in Media and the Arts

With the increasing availability of technologies for artificial intelligence, the use of AI in the cultural and creative industries is growing rapidly. As a founding member of the Media Solution Center Baden-Württemberg, HLRS has supported artists and other creatives by providing the large-scale computing resources and the technical expertise they need to to develop and test new AI-based methods and concepts. Through close collaboration, HLRS has enabled artists to explore AI-based approaches in the visual arts, music, dance, and other fields.

Photo of a dancer on a dark stage with a projection on a screen.

An experiment in human-AI collaboration

Supported by the S+T+ARTS Air residency program, Uncharted Limbo Collective used HLRS computing and visualization infrastructure to develop a performance in which AI-enabled “digital beings” interacted in real time with human dancers.

Foto von Musikern des Stuttgarter Kammerorchesters bei einem Auftritt.

AI in music composition

HLRS scientists collaborated with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Hochschule der Medien, and the Hertz-Lab at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) to investigate whether an algorithm could generate a new composition that Mozart might have produced.

Ein farbenfrohes, von AI generiertes Bild

Deep learning in the visual arts

For an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Tübingen, the media arts collective Lunar Ring created a deep learning framework that reinterprets paintings in ways that retain recognizable traces of the originals while simultaneously producing new effects.

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