Cluster of Excellence – Machine Learning for Science

11.05.2023

Art exhibit "IN ML OUT": Opening event in Stuttgart on May 15

The interactive art exhibit "IN ML OUT" addresses the relationship between climate change and renewable energy and demonstrates the potential of machine learning. Using wind energy as an example, it illustrates how machine learning can help to make the best possible use of renewable energy sources in times of climate change.

Poster of the exhibition IN ML OUT

Our researchers Nicole Ludwig and Nina Effenberger are working on sustainable energy within our Cluster of Excellence. For example, they are looking at questions such as the location of wind turbines that will still be supplying electricity in 30 years' time, or the stability of the power supply. To do this, they use data from climate and weather models to predict the supply of wind energy with the help of machine learning. Since renewable energy generation is weather-dependent and thus itself affected by climate change, it is important to account for it. Advanced machine learning algorithms can help increase the resolution of climate projection data. This allows wind speed to be predicted directly at turbine locations.

Machine learning holds great potential for future renewable energy supply. In order to enter into an active dialogue with citizens and decision makers, the exhibit "IN-ML-OUT" has been initiated. It is the result of a cooperation of our Cluster of Excellence with design students of the "Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste" in Stuttgart and the "Zentrum für rhetorische Wissenschaftskommunikationsforschung zur Künstlichen Intelligenz" (RHET AI) at the University of Tübingen.

The exhibit enables visitors to experience that our actions influence the climate, which solutions researchers can support with the help of machine learning, and which initiatives and projects on renewable energies already exist. To this end, it brings together science and art - and transfers the model-like partial aspects of "Input", "Machine Learning" and "Output" into three connected exhibits that creatively invite visitors to discover, reflect and discuss.
 

On Monday, May 15 at 6 pm, the exhibit will be launched at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart and will be on view  through May 17.
Afterwards, it will be transfered to Tübingen and will be on display at future events all over Germany.
We will announce further dates on our events page.

 

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