Focuses

If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?

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…

Private Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

Sage Gross

Focus on “If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?”

Seeing without Any – Towards a Continuation Archival Practice

Allyson Banks

Focus on “If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?”

Vantablack. Generative Archival as a

Kira Abbott

Focus on “If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?”

Financializing Intelligence. On the Images of Machines neo-liberal Thinking

Rodrigo Howe

Focus on “If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?”

HMKV, Dortmund, 2022

Human computers, the labourious history of computing

June Hampton

Focus on “If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?”

Human Creations. Generative AI and to

Kira Abbott

Focus on “If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?”

Speculative Nets – Artificial Intelligence Finance, and Reactionary Politics

Rodrigo Howe

Focus on “If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?”

Of Course and Ungovernable Data

Cristian Fitzgerald

Focus on “If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?”

Dronomation

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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…