The base.camp at the nextMedia AI Festival
23 February 2024, by Anton Semjonov, Oliver Kafke

Photo: nextmedia.Hamburg / Jan-Marius Komorek
Today we are ending an exciting week that was all about AI. The base.camp was part of the nextMedia AI Festival in Hamburg, from the 19th to the 23rd of February at the SPACE Hamburg.
The event was all about how AI will form the Media and Content Industry. For an entire week leading experts gave several talks. We visited interesting workshops on AI and Copyright by fieldfisher, taking away several points to use in our future AI endeavors. A week prior Sora, OpenAI’s new text to video model had made high waves. Simon Graff showed us that AI was soon to conquer another field: 3D-Models. Ninu Dramis gave us new perspectives on prompting, explaining the optimal way to prompt. On Thursday we all had a great laugh at the Prompt Battle: participants had to create images with their AI-Tools which were voted on by the viewers. See an archived schedule here.
Throughout the action-packed week there were also calmer moments like the mornings when we had our time to shine: arriving guests could eat and drink something or entertain themselves with the many interesting AI generated Artifacts in the SPACE: Light Novels generated with AI, which resulted in visually stunning adaptions of stories like "Little Red Riding Hood" or "The Sorcerer of Oz". We were also able to feel like that sorcerer when we painted on a virtual canvas, using AI generated paint brushes, like ones made from thunder or, when we tested the limits of the AI, copyrighted video game characters. The Canvas was powered by Google’s mediapipe and StreamDiffusion for the brushes. Of course we also brought our own artifacts: The Diffusionbooth and the trAIding-cards had proved themselves at the Digital Science Night #5 and have been developed further since then and were a great success.
All in all, we had a great week, learned a lot and met interesting people, like ARIC, the Artificial Intelligence Center Hamburg, who connect industry, society and AI researchers. Just as important: we now understand what a great place the SPACE Hamburg is and we hope to take one of our base.camp projects there.