Asker Bryld Staunæs, also connected to the projects Arkivaristerne°, Computer Lars and The Synthetic Party, is an associated researcher at CLAI, whose practice-based research reaches well beyond the confines of the university walls.

His PhD project, Automatic Uprisings: Archiving a Techno-Social Sculpture, is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, and is a media-based and politically engaged artistic research project that is facilitated between Aarhus University and Kunsthal Aarhus. The project thematizes automation and parlamentarism in order to explore collective imaginaries for social protest with artificial intelligence (AI), and seeks, in practice, to construct a international vox populi by enacting diverse forms of participation from a distributed pool of human-made data, which would become a potential social movement, The Synthetic International (SI), a global web of political parties driven by AIs.

By facilitating exhibitions, labs, workshops and scholarly debate, Automatic Uprisings’ seeks to outline a form of digital citizenship where everyone contributes to determining the role of AI in democracy.

Learn more about the project –

on its project page at Novo Nordic Fonden:  https://novonordiskfonden.dk/nyheder/novo-nordisk-fonden-stoetter-16-nye-projekter-inden-for-forskning-i-kunst-og-kunsthistorie/

in the article at Kunsten.nu: https://kunsten.nu/journal/nyt-kunstforskningsprojekt-ai-parti-skal-give-stemme-til-de-overhoerte/

and in the presentation by Asker Bryld Staunæs himself: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRl35BjsIE&pp=ygUTQXV0b21hdGljIHVwcmlzaW5ncw%3D%3D [English]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CDjsamMp_QE [Danish]