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“A song all about AI”: a musical exhibition booth to foster artificial intelligence literacy

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In a participatory project to improve general artificial intelligence (AI) literacy, we worked with citizen scientists, artists and AI experts to collect pressing questions about AI and to answer them creatively. The result, created in collaboration with the singer-songwriter “Blonder Engel”, was “A song all about AI”, written in Upper Austrian dialect in order to reach a target group that differs completely from that of English-language specialist publications on AI. To add interactive elements and to address a wider audience, we used the song and its music video as a starting point for developing a participatory exhibition booth that debuted at the ECSA 2024 Citizen Science Day. Results gathered at its first outing show that it is a successful means both of interactive, art-based science communication and of collecting data on a diverse audience’s AI awareness.

Source: ARPHA proceedings

DOI: 10.3897/ap.e126144

Authors: Kathrin Meyer, Thomas Meneweger, Martina Mara

Institution: Johannes Kepler University of Linz

Language: English

Topic: Art, Technology, and Culture

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $80

Funder: Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft