Wilding AI is a nomadic and polymorphic research-creation lab. It questions the current domestication of artificial intelligence into predefined operational modes, aiming instead to foster new avenues for creative expression, particularly in spatial audio. As a collective of artist-researchers, we reject the commodification of technology. Instead, we engage with it poetically and experimentally by (mis)using, hijacking, or outright breaking machine-learning media generators to explore new forms of human-machine collaboration.
The collective is composed of Pía Baltazar, Beth Coleman, Sahar Homami, Daniela Huerta, Maurice Jones, Tegan Maharaj, Heu Hsu, Alexandre Saunier, Gadi Sassoon, Debashis Sinha, Nao Tokui and Portrait XO. Centering public engagement, the collective has focused on R&D residencies and open-studio presentations at leading international venues, including MUTEK and SAT Montreal, MUTEK Mexico, MONOM Studios for CTM Festival Berlin, and 4DSOUND for FIBER Festival in Amsterdam.
November 28, 2025
This documentary provides a comprehensive overview of the Wilding AI project, a collaborative research initiative led by Pia Baltazar, Beth Coleman, Daniela Huerta, Maurice Jones, & Alex Saunier.
The film investigates the convergence of spatialized sound environments and machine learning, specifically examining Coleman’s theoretical framework of ‘Wilding.’
Through this lens, the documentary explores how AI can be liberated from rigid structures to foster more organic technological futures
September 12, 2025
On September 12, the Wilding AI collective presents the European Premiere of their composition FERAL FREQUENCIES at MONOM Studios for SPATIAL 2025.
After a two week residency at Laboratoire formes · ondes at Université de Montréal, FERAL FREQUENCIES presents the artistic culmination of a two-long process of research-creation experiments demonstrating developed capabilities in AI-driven sound spatialization. The composition traverses four key themes the collective explored: Emotional Sovereignty ; Data That Matters ; The Algorithmic Shape of Stories ; and Breaking Machines / Making Kin.
The residency and presentation of FERAL FREQUENCIES is supported by the « Laboratoire formes · ondes » at Université de Montréal, MONOM Studios and 4DSOUND.
The development of FERAL FREQUENCIES at the Society for Arts and Technology is funded by the Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie, in partnership with MA Scène Nationale.
January 2025
As part of CTM Festival 2025, Wilding AI and MONOM hosted a four-day public lab, Generative Space is the Place, exploring the intersections of generative AI, storytelling, and spatial audio. The lab follows the artist and researcher Beth Coleman’s appeal for imagining an AI “that can be free—if not to imagine, then to generate—speeding through possibilities, junctures that are idiotic until they are not.”
Running from January 23–26, the lab welcomed twelve international artists with diverse backgrounds selected through an open call. Each morning offered skill sharing sessions opened to the public led by Beth Coleman, Maurice Jones, Portrait XO, and Alexandre Saunier, introducing critical and creative applications of large-language models, generative sound tools, and spatialization in 4DSOUND.
Afternoons were reserved for lab participants to prototype collectively and experiment artistically in a shared spatial audio environment. Through the lab, the sound artists, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and developers generated spatial behaviors, translated prompts into movement, and investigated new compositional methods.
The lab fostered rich and critical conversations around LLM, generativity and diverse creative practices. The final day culminated in a public listening session where the participants performed in duos, inviting audiences to interact with artistic responses to the wilder territories of AI.
Wilding AI is a collective research-creation project supported by MONOM Studios, MUTEK, MUTEK Mexico, CTM Festival, Fiber Festival, 4DSOUND, Neutone Inc., Concordia University, Milieux Instiute, the Applied AI Institute, and the Society for Arts and Technology.
The project is made possible by round 14 of the International Coproduction Fund of the Goethe-Institut.