Mentoring AI-media Lab Silbersalz Festival
Had the immense pleasure to mentor a group of excellent AI and robot scientists to create some brainstorming innovative media ideas for science communication. Organized Crossover Labs UK, as part of the upcoming Silbersalz Science & Media Festival 2021.
Mentoring group: Tom Millen, Mark Atkin, Inga von Staden, Jonathan May, Annette Mees, Jeanine Reutemann
2-day workshop plan
The chosen scientists attend an online workshop run by the course leaders and an interdisciplinary mentor group of artists and creatives.
By the end of the workshop each scientist will leave with a clear idea of what makes their research interesting to a broad general audience and a project idea.
DAY ONE
10.00 INTROS SETTING THE TASK FOR THE FIRST WORKSHOP
Ending up with a clear idea of what makes your research interesting to a broad general audience; a idea of potential platform/s; a pitch to artists and producers as potential collaborators.
10.30 First Presentation
Each scientist present their research; 10 mins each.
11.30 COFFEE BREAK
12.00 Each mentor presents their creative work. 10 mins each. Mentors are selected to represent Immersive; Public Art; Games; Interactivity; Film and TV.
13.00 LUNCH
14.00 First Ideation Workshop: in each 30 min workshop with two mentors in each workshop, the team discusses the ideal potential concept. By the end of the Ideation Workshops there will be a minimum of four potential concepts for each scientist's research. Each project is captured by one of the mentors and posted on a Miro board.
15.30 Second Ideation Workshop
17.00 Field Trip to Immersive Storytelling. Participants attend a custom science-based online entertainment experience.
DAY TWO
10.00 Third Ideation Workshop
11.00 Ideas Market: each of the potential projects are presented (2 mins each) . Structured feedback based on De Bono's Hats (3 mins each). Each artist and scientist has five votes to spend on any project on the Miro Board. Based on this data and input from the mentors one project per scientist is chosen to be developed further.
13.00 LUNCH
14.00 WATERING HOLES - Watering Holes are sessions where each scientist meets with some mentors in order to drill down into certain aspects of their project and receive focussed feedback and suggestions. This first Watering Hole will focus on the general project concept.
17.00 What happens next? Setting the task for the first mentoring session.
