In this talk Artemi-Maria Gioti will draw on autoethnographic materials from her compositional practice to examine the critical insights that artistic research in composition can offer into machine learning and data practices. She will focus specifically on the perspectives that emerge through the creation of datasets, the training of machine learning models, and their deployment in live performance settings. Bringing an autoethnographic perspective on data-making practices into dialogue with theoretical frameworks from critical data studies, Artemi-Maria Gioti will propose a deconstructive critique of data as material, processual, and relational, foregrounding the aesthetic decisions embedded in processes of datafication. Finally, she will explore how errors and failures in machine learning systems can function as sites of critical inquiry into the epistemological assumptions that underlie machine learning.
Artemi-Maria Gioti is a composer and artistic researcher working at the intersection of music and Artificial Intelligence (AI). She is Professor of Artistic Research in Music at Mozarteum University Salzburg.
Her compositional work focuses on interactive works involving reciprocal, real-time interaction between human performers and computer music systems incorporating machine learning (ML). Through this practice, she explores how technology reconfigures musical practices and ontologies, such as authorship and the musical work. Her research brings autoethnographies of the compositional process into dialogue with theoretical frameworks from critical AI and critical data studies, to investigate questions of data materiality, data semiotics and ML epistemology.
Her music has been performed by leading ensembles and soloists across Europe and distinguished with awards such as the 2019 Giga-Hertz Production Award and an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2023.
Her previous academic appointments include positions at the University of Music «Carl Maria von Weber» Dresden, UCL’s Anthropology Department and the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. https://www.artemigioti.com/
