1.0 Name:Károly Tóth
2.0 Location:Rotterdam, EU
3.0 Contact Details:...
4.0 URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~are
5.0 Proposal for 'user_mode' at Tate Modern:

Aura Reverse Engineering (A. R. E.)
Cheer up your A.I. !

Reverse Engineering is a vice-versa procedure to decipher, how an unknown machine or software works, what is the meaning of a text written in an alien alphabet. Generally it refers to breaking a code.

A.R.E. is a process in which the Computer Aided Aura generates a state of mind for an A.I. With Humanoids it is just like the opposite way.

However computers are believed to be stupid, everybody knows people who just cannot pass the Turing test. The Turing test is a test proposed in 1950 by the English mathematician Alan M. Turing to determine whether a computer can be said to "think."

In this art-project the A.I. is making use of artistic vocabulary in a 3D virtual environment to express its state of mind. The aim is not to model human thinking. Certainly, there will be a time in the not so far future when Machines shall evolve into real social beings that coexist with Humans. We must consider them to have some emotions. A.R.E. is a way to provide AI's a form of emotion, until they reach the level of intelligence when they are able to develop emotions on their own. The project is not about any mystical indistinct mumbo-jumbo when I choose to use aura. I was only looking for some visual about the working of the mind. Aura is shape and color.

5.1 Outlines of the A.R.E. art-project: 1. Human2Machine interface 2. Aura engine 3. Emotion engine 4. 3D Art-engine (a general art markup language)

6.0 Type of proposal:Lecture + Paper + Demo (a beta version of the 3D environment)

7.0 Biography:
7.1 Occupation:visual artist, aura reverse-engineer

7.2 Art education:1989-1992 De Vrije Academie, The Hague, Netherlands2000 Bauhaus Kolleg, Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany

7.3 Grants:1992-1993 Stipend of STROOM HCBK, The Hague, Netherlands1997 Artist in residence grant (6 months), MUU Mediabase, Helsinki, Finland 2000 Scholarship, Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany

7.4 Workshops, symposia, lectures:1993 State of the Image, Eldorado, Antwerp (symposium)1994 Sculpture City Workshop, Attila Foundation, Rotterdam, Netherlands (workshop)1995 Terra a-Topia, as guest professor, JPTE art faculty, post-gradual art master class, Pécs, Hungary (lecture)1994 Horror Vacui in digital spaces, Academy of Fine Arts, Intermedia, Budapest, Hungary (lecture) 1996 The Genes of Architecture, with Kas Oosterhuis, (workshop/symposium)1996 Parasite, researcher-artist, project by Attila Foundation, Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands1998 Polar Circuit 2, International media workshop, Tornio, Finland (workshop)1999 Recent projects, Academy of Fine Arts, Intermedia, Budapest, Hungary (lecture)2000 3rd International Light-symposium, Gyorgy Kepes Center, Eger, Hungary (lecture)

7.5 Festivals, expo's (selection):1995 Ostranenie95 Festival, Timebody - installation, Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany1997 Valon Voimat Festival, One Light-year (computer simulation) Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland1998 V2_DEAF98 festival, The Art of The Accident, The Negative River, Rotterdam, Netherlands1999 VRML-ART99 International VRML-ART expo, Padeborn, Germany1999 EMAF, VRML-ART, Osnabrueck, Germany2000 F.I.L.E. (Electronic Language International Festival), M.I.S., Sao Paulo, Brazil

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