歌德学院AI创意项目奖金，开放申请！

主题：

AI to Amplify

申请类型：

AI创意项目奖金

奖金：

10000欧元

申请截止日期：

2023年3月20日

项目启动时间：

2023年5月

项目周期：

两个月

申请入口：

www.goethe.de/ai2amplify

主办方：

歌德学院

合作方：

新时线媒体艺术中心（CAC）

您是否使用过包含人工智能技术的产品或应用程序？您是否对伦理议题感兴趣，致力于将产品与应用程序变得更具包容性与可持续性？您是否想在国际跨学科团队中工作，并乐于更新自己的观点？如您符合上述描述，欢迎申请 “AI to Amplify”线上奖金项目！

该项目由歌德学院主办，新时线媒体艺术中心（CAC）联合组织，于2023年5月启动，在两个月的时间内，举办一系列包含研讨会、交流会、工作坊与黑客松等形式的活动，以期围绕人工智能及其应用展开更为多元的探讨。

我们欢迎来自世界各地的申请，您可以是编程人员与开发人员，也可以是哲学家、艺术家、社会学家、律师或活动家们。我们致力于组建融合性团队，这意味着我们明确鼓励女性、酷儿群体、残障人士、无学位者和具有不同专业背景的人员申请本项目。项目沟通语言为英语。

申请截止日期：2023年3月20日

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主办方

Open Call for Online Fellowship Programme "AI to Amplify"                    

Programme Title: 

AI to Amplify 

Call Type:

 Fellowship

Application Deadline: 

March 20, 2023

Start Date:

May, 2023

Programme Duration:

2 months

Application Website：

www.goethe.de/ai2amplify

Host:

Goethe-Institut

Co-organizer: 

Chronus Art Center (CAC)

Are you involved with products or applications that use artificial intelligence? Are you interested in ethical issues and in making products and applications more inclusive and sustainable? Do you like working in international interdisciplinary teams and enjoy changing perspectives? Then apply for our online Fellowship Programme "AI to Amplify"!

Hosted by Goethe-Institut and co-organized with Chronus Art Center (CAC), "AI to Amplify" will start in May 2023 and run for 2 months, consisting of a series of events including seminars, networking activities, workshops and a hackathon, among others, to unfurl diverse discourse on artificial intelligence and its applications.

We welcome applications from coders and developers from the Global North and Global South, but also from philosophers, artists, sociologists, lawyers and activists. We aim for a good mix of teams, which means we explicitly encourage women, queer people, people with disabilities, people without a degree and people with diverse professional backgrounds to apply.

A jury will select 80 (eighty) participants from all applications. From these we will put together as diverse teams as possible. Due to the different time zones, we will probably work in two groups of 40 people each. The online sessions during the Fellowship Programme are currently planned to take place about twice a week for 2 hours each. You will find out at the end of March whether your application was successful. Further organisational details will be announced then as well.

Application Deadline: March 20, 2023

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Many AI products and applications used around the world are still produced by teams that are not very diverse. As a result, AI applications at best do not meet the needs of users and at worst harm marginalised groups. Moreover, the (digital) divide between South and North is widening because most of the data sets for machine learning come from the Global North.

Aims of the project

• Decentralisation of the AI discourse: The project aims to empower coders from the Global South and to embed their interests in the development of AI applications and in the debates around AI (e.g. at conferences). Within the framework of the project, the coders learn how products can be better aligned with the cultural realities, needs and interests of the Global South.

• Raising awareness of inclusion issues: The participation of people with disabilities, people of color, queer people, structurally disadvantaged people, people from different social classes, and older people in the creation and use of AI applications is important to us, and their perspectives should be included.

• International and interdisciplinary exchange: The participating developers enter into a dialog with each other and with various other professional groups. The goal is to create a global community that raises awareness of the need to integrate multiple perspectives into the creation of AI applications.

• Prototype design: Diverse teams design ideas for AI applications. Two projects selected by a jury are developed into prototypes. 

Why should you participate?

• The training programme is tailored to the needs of the participants and is free of charge. 
• It offers you the chance to meet other social activists, to gain new perspectives and to network internationally.

• You can contribute your own ideas and perspectives to the development of community-oriented products and applications and develop them further in the team. This will give your ideas and perspectives high visibility.

• Six winning teams will receive seed money to further develop their prototypes and present them at a conference in the Global North. They thus become part of a worldwide movement/community.

• After a second selection process, two winning teams will receive seed money of € 10,000 for the further realisation of the product idea or prototype.

Timetable

Up to 20.3.2023:

Call for applications for coders and developers from the Global North and the Global South in cooperation with local coding initiatives. Applications from philosophers, artists, sociologists, lawyers and civil society actors are also welcome.

May 2023:

Start of the two-month online Fellowship Programme, consisting of seminars, networking events and workshops. The focus is on the exchange between the participants and the sensitization for questions of ethics and inclusion through the invitation of international speakers who illuminate the topic of artificial intelligence from different perspectives. The participants should inform each other about local needs and identify a relevant topic in their project location.

July 2023:

Two-week hackathon in which ideas for AI applications are developed in diverse teams. Selection of six ideas/teams for further development.

August or September 2023:

Invitation of the six teams to a physical meeting in connection with an AI conference in the Global South to network with each other, sharpen the product idea, deal with the local conditions and participate in the conference.

Further development phase to expand the idea within the six teams, supported by a stipend and regular online coaching. Pitching of product ideas at the end of the development phase and selection of two proposals for further funding. Presentation of these products and/or the project at a conference in the Global North.

Click “Read More”at the bottom to visit the programme website for more information and application.

HOST

新时线媒体艺术中心（CAC）成立于2013年，系国内首家致力于媒体艺术之展示、研究/创作及学术交流的非营利性艺术机构。通过展览、驻留、奖学金、讲座、工作坊及相关文献的梳理与出版，CAC为媒体艺术在全球语境中的论述、生产及传播开拓了一个多样化且富有活力的平台。CAC以批判地介入不断改变进而重塑当代经验的媒体技术来推动艺术创新及文化认知。

Established in 2013, Chronus Art Center (CAC) is China’s first nonprofit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research / creation and scholarship of media art. CAC with its exhibitions, residency-oriented fellowships, lectures and workshop programs and through its archiving and publishing initiatives, creates a multifaceted and vibrant platform for the discourse, production and dissemination of media art in a global context. CAC is positioned to advance artistic innovation and cultural awareness by critically engaging with media technologies that are transforming and reshaping contemporary experiences. 

www.chronusartcenter.org

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