There is a strange disconnect in tech’s recent effects on politics and culture.
While culture and art feel constrained by data populism, scandal management and market opportunism, politics is on a rampage. Nothing seems impossible, from invading or selling Greenland or Gaza, abolishing central banks or food banks, to making…

Post-Civil Drones and Artificial ‚Intelligence‘ in War Zones

The one-day online conference looks to present contemporary critiques of drone-technologies, their scopic regimes and increasing reliance on so-called AI systems. Instead of fetishising the presumed autonomy of these weapons, this conference looks at the logistic dependencies, the operational chains of humans, and…

The political economy of AI impacts on both its generative output as well as on art scenes and creative labor. Which strategies and tactics can artists employ in a sphere of corporate generative media to avoid redundancy and their own obsolescence?

The conference tackles these questions through multiple perspectives: Theft…