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Unpacking AI Through Virtual Exchange

Unpacking AI Through Virtual Exchange

by Ellen Pearlman | Jun 23, 2020 | Blog Ukraine 2, Digital Literacy, Ellen Pearlman, Featured, Ukraine 2, ZERO1

I was really looking forward to spending time in Kyiv, Ukraine this past April, but my plans were thrown for a loop by the COVID-19 pandemic. With great assistance from ZERO1, I pivoted in the short space of two weeks to a fully online experience. It was also...
I’m Standing Here

I’m Standing Here

by ZERO1 | Jun 16, 2020 | Community Projects, Community Projects Ukraine 2, Digital Literacy, Ukraine 2

This team’s research included investigating various environmental factors that affect climate change, which they categorized as positive or negative (while acknowledging that many are controversial). They selected six factors to examine, and discussed how they could...
MUDRA

MUDRA

by ZERO1 | Jun 16, 2020 | Community Projects, Community Projects Ukraine 2, Digital Literacy, Ukraine 2

MUDRA is a smart AI-based program that processes sign language in real-time (including Ukrainian Sign Language) and translates this data into other media (text, voice, music, visual output). The aim of the project is to create a product that helps people with hearing...
David’s World

David’s World

by ZERO1 | Jun 16, 2020 | Community Projects, Community Projects Ukraine 2, Digital Literacy, Ukraine 2

“David’s World” reflects the team’s research into fake news and conspiracies around COVID-19. They created a digital environment using Unity and Raymarching, as well as Magenta Studio, that reflects this type of worldview, visually representing the increasing degree...
AI Dreaming

AI Dreaming

by ZERO1 | Jun 16, 2020 | Community Projects, Community Projects Ukraine 2, Digital Literacy, Ukraine 2

This project contemplates isolation and social distancing in a moment where many relationships are mediated through the screen by creating a virtual world. The surroundings and sounds in this world convey a feeling of solitude to the viewer, though it is actually a...
INTELLIGENT UKRAINE

INTELLIGENT UKRAINE

by Ellen Pearlman | Mar 6, 2020 | Blog Ukraine 2, Digital Literacy, Ellen Pearlman, Featured, Ukraine 2, ZERO1

I first visited Kyiv Ukraine in 1992, the first year of Perestroika, and again in 1993. I met Ukrainian artists in New York City by chance during an open art studio day in Brooklyn, and one of the artists I met was from Kyiv.  She spontaneously invited me to...

American Arts Incubator (AAI) is an international creative exchange program developed in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by ZERO1. The program utilizes community-driven digital and new media art projects to instigate dialogue, build communities, bolster local economies, and further social innovation.

American Arts Incubator is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs developed in partnership with ZERO1.