TONIGHT at 10pm (UK time): CYLAND Audio Archive Showcase on the Sonic Darts Showcase, broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra. Sonic Darts is a monthly radio program produced by the London-based sound art collective Gwaith Sŵn. listen to the replay: https://extra.resonance.fm/episodes/sonic-darts-cyland-audio-archive-showcase-2025-06-02?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwKq4yBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp43laZqv-U9JF_N7qN3oD3-RAfJ5YReUJDy_lzaMPuy7y0F2E31R2U3oySLq_aem_3XyOTkxwH2_zgpeYH4j1BA This episode presents a curated selection of works by international sound artists, including early electronic sculptures by Peter Vogel, modular synthesis from Yoshio Machida and Tod Barton, and analog textures from Nick Edwards (Ekoplekz). It also features acoustic experiments by Georgy Bagdasarov, tape collages by Sasha Ults, digital overload from Hans Tammen, site-responsive works by Jonás Gruska, sonic theater from Peter Um, and contributions by Russian artists Vasily Stepanov and Dmitry Morozov, as well as the collective project Kurvenschreiber. This selection reflects the scope and intent of the archive: to capture sound art as a tactile, conceptual, and often unpredictable form. You can explore more releases or download the works freely via our Bandcamp page. https://cyland.bandcamp.com/ —— ph: Ann Prilutckaia (fb)

✺ LASER Talks in Jerusalem — Reimagining AI: Research and Creative Practice with AI Agents and Simulations ✺ with Claudio Filho, Dr. Denisa Kera, Dr. Liat Lavi and Lior Shalev When: June 19, 2025, 7 PM (UTC +3) Where: “The President Hotel” Art Center, Ahad Ha-Am str. 3, Jerusalem, Israel + Online Registration link > https://leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=986 Chaired by Galina Bleikh Moderated by Daria Kesler Coordinator: Lilia Chak Scientific breakthroughs in artificial intelligence are reshaping artistic practices, enabling creators to visualize complex relationships between technology, language, and nature. Our conference examines these transformative intersections through pioneering perspectives, formed by artists in collaboration with scientists. This LASER Talk gathers artists and theorists who treat AI systems not as instruments but as actors embedded in contested ecologies of meaning, power, and relation. Drawing from linguistics, environmental computation, and public experiments, the works presented confront the metaphysical assumptions underlying AI, what counts as action, intention, or even selfhood. Rather than illustrating intelligence, these projects stage it: as a negotiated property emerging between agents, systems, and environments. Machine agency becomes neither autonomous nor predetermined, but a site where political, ecological, and grammatical forces are rendered visible and available for intervention. ◦ Claudio Filho explores “Ecosystemic AI” as a model of intelligence grounded in ecological entanglement rather than computation alone. His work draws on environmental data and ecological epistemologies to develop responsive art systems in which AI mediates between biological processes and artistic expression. These systems render intelligence as a distributed, multispecies capacity, challenging anthropocentric and instrumental views of machine cognition. ◦ Dr. Liat Lavi and Lior Shalev present “Monsters vs. Trolls: AI-Generated Grassroots Metaphysics,” a speculative project centered on LILA, a generative avatar navigating algorithmic publics and digital mysticism. LILA embodies a form of machine thought shaped by vernacular cosmologies, platform logic, and residual metaphysics inherited from large language models. As a metaphorical “monster,” she philosophizes from within the digital commons, unsettling academic categories and offering a performative critique of AI's entanglement with economic, political, and epistemic infrastructures. ◦ Dr. Denisa Kera introduces “Theatrical Agents and the Politics of Grammar,” drawing on ergative linguistic structures to design AI agents that disrupt subject-object hierarchies. Her participatory simulations stage AI as a dramaturgical medium, where agency is redistributed across roles and interactions. These performances expose the hierarchies embedded in code and grammar, proposing a speculative framework for AI as a situated and negotiated presence rather than a deterministic function. Together, the speakers challenge conventional narratives about intelligence and instead offer speculative practices grounded in embodied participation, ecological feedback, and linguistic diversity. The result is not a vision of AI as a singular intelligence but as a plurality of entangled agencies, staging new public and planetary imaginaries. As part of Leonardo LASER Talks Supported by Inemea group and CYLAND MediaArtLab —— image credits: Claudio Filho. Data-river 2 (2023; 2024) (fb)