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COST Action Artistic Intelligence Responsiveness, Accessibility, Responsibility, Equity (ARTinRARE), CA23158

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Artistic intelligence

refers to the collective capacity of artistic and practice-based research to generate impact and value beyond the project-specific, singular outcomes of an individual project. 

This COST Action

explores value propositions based on the data, information and knowledge that emerge from the relationships between artistic research projects, research practices, and research cultures that are usually excluded from or ignored by conventional evaluation schemes.
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Artistic Intelligence

Artistic and practice-based research is increasingly called upon to enable cross-disciplinary research to address complex societal challenges in collaborative ways. However, most of this research is currently conducted in isolation from the work of related or relevant researchers who have already addressed similar questions or come to different conclusions – let alone the potential for linkages with other forms of scientific research. 

As a result, even new projects tend to de-prioritise referencing, contextualising their sources and referring to a state-of-the-art that might even include results from other disciplines. On the other hand, the methods and results of research are difficult to trace and access for anyone who has not been involved in the process.

Artistic Intelligence responds to the lack of common standards, challenging isolated, non-referenced research processes across the arts and culture. It aims to link emerging initiatives in practice-based research by exploring current technological possibilities for accessing, linking and validating them within a common framework of artistic intelligence.

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Events

Webinar: AI, Memory and the Politics of the Archive

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This one-hour webinar brings together Melisa Kayowa and Evans Akanyijuka to examine how artificial intelligence participates in artistic research through archives, memory, representation and cultural authority. Drawing on their complementary S+T+ARTS Afropean Intelligence projects, the session moves beyond AI-generated outputs to focus on the human, material, institutional and computational decisions that shape what machines can remember, interpret and reproduce.

Latest news

New Position Paper Calls for Stronger Recognition of Artistic Research in Future EU Research and Innovation Funding

24 July 2026
A new position paper by T6 Ecosystems, developed as a joint contribution from the PACESETTERS and S+T+ARTS EC(H)O projects and building on the policy discussions at the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) 2026 Conference in Galway, calls for stronger recognition of artistic research, Artistic Intelligence, and the Cultural and Creative Industries within the European Union's next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028–2034) and future research and innovation programmes.

Call: Building Artistic Intelligence: Entrepreneurial Pathways (Workshop)

7 July 2026
Working Group 2 invites applications from artists, artistic researchers, cultural entrepreneurs and innovation leaders with demonstrable experience building platforms, labs, ventures, cooperatives or other long-term initiatives at the intersection of art, research, technology and society.

CALL: ARTISTIC INTELLIGENCE – GEOGRAFÍA POÉTICA WORKSHOP / ONS ISLAND

1 July 2026
We invite artists, researchers, PhD candidates, and early-career practitioners to join the Geografía Poética Workshop, a 5-day workshop-residency taking place on Ons Island, within the Atlantic Islands National Park, Galicia, Spain, from 22 to 26 September 2026. This event is organised within the Working Group on Reference Frameworks (WG3) of the COST Action Artistic Intelligence and builds on the ongoing lines of work of Geografía Poética.

Past events

Artistic Intelligence Webinar #2 Communication Strategies

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Artistic Intelligence Webinar #2 Communication Strategies. 23th January 2026, 10h30 - 12h00. Speaker: Linnea Langfjord Kristensen, Science Communication Coordinator of the COST Action Artistic Intelligence.