JRC Resonances Summer School 2018

The coming digital transformation: do we really need to fear Big Data and AI?

Big Data have erupted in our daily lives. What are these big data, this artiÿcial intelligence - with their promise of digital transformation - that we choose to fear and exalt in equal measure? The JRC Resonances summer school o°ers common ground for creative projects in a unique way. Scientists, artists and policymakers come together, at their disposal the extensive data the JRC hosts and uses, to discuss the use ... See More of these data for creative endeavours. Ready to open dialogues and explore uncharted territory, in order to become, together, more e°ective in addressing societal concerns. We want to create a space where we can become the hackers of our own future that we know will be online and o˛ine, that is: onlife. We see this space as a datami, free and open to all. Work will be collective, a new space to explore and to bring to fruition the spaces opened up by the internet and open source. We propose to call this extended concept of work opera, a singular plural, liberated from formality and prejudice and capable of tapping into new forms of creativity, in a free democracy of disciplines. The challenge of the Resonances III on Big Data is to elaborate this personal datami in a collective e°ort, where all disciplines and insights coalesce in an opera that is not limited to art, or to science, or to policy, to culture or to society. It reaches out to the future from a new and enriched on-life. A common endeavour resulting in a new kind of work, which might be art, can be science, and will help policy, the result of a collective e°ort of all participants, coming together as citizens to probe deeper into this hyped and uncertain future. It is democracy.

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