Reclaiming Data - Skill Sharing 2: allapopp

AI Sound & Cultural Memory: From Dataset to Performance

This 1.5-hour skill-sharing session with allapopp offers insight into an artistic workflow—from critical model conceptualization and data collection to its transformation into sound and live performance. Focusing on current research with small datasets and non-dominant cultural narratives, the workshop explores low-barrier approaches to AI sound (style-transfer) model training. Using an accessible, off-the-shelf sound plugin, participants will be able to follow how small, situated datasets can be used within a style-transfer model.

Grounded in the ongoing project Virtual Tatar Choir, which asks Why is there no Tatar Science Fiction?, the session draws from personal and archival recordings of rural Tatar singing. It reflects on how AI systems—often shaped by dominant Western datasets—interact with marginalized cultural material.

Through practical examples and discussion, the workshop opens questions around authorship, bias, and the political dimensions of datasets, inviting participants to approach small datasets as a deliberate artistic and cultural strategy.
Key info:

— Date: Saturday, 13 June 2026, 10:00–11:30

— Venue: Flutgraben e.V., Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin

— Capacity: 15 participants

— Admission: free, registration required

— Language: English

— Prerequisites: none — bring your curiosity about sound, AI, and cultural memory

Reclaiming Data is a two-day symposium and exhibition on 12 and 13 June 2026 at Flutgraben e.V. Berlin. It brings together artists, researchers, journalists, and cultural institutions around the question of how digital archives, data sets, and generative systems shape what is remembered. Three Skill Sharing Sessions accompany the symposium, each held in a small group (max. 15 participants). Please choose one session per registration.
More: https://koerber-stiftung.de/projekte/ecommemoration/reclaiming-data/

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