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https://ncm.org.au/events/wyrmwear-workshop

How do we make meaning, through art, through networks, through technology, through symbolic form?

Our contemporary computational era is marked by the co-construction of meaning between humans and machines. The compromised environment in which this meaning-making occurs has created an urgent need to locate and practice alternative ways of reclaiming power and creativity. Stigmergy presents an alternative.

Beginning with a exhibition walkthrough of Stigmergy, this workshop, led by Jasmin Pfefferkorn and Sean McMorrow, picks up on the themes explored in the exhibition to discuss how we might understand digital art as symbolic form and how this understanding might reconfigure our productive agency within digital systems.

Wyrmware participants will produce a collaborative digital visual composition guided by the discussion, which will feed into the exhibition as an intervening artwork within the show. This co-authored compositional work will then find its archival niche on the NCM website.

Places in the workshop are limited and include access to NCM exhibitions. Registration is through an EOI process. EOIs open Friday 1 May and close Wednesday 30 June. Successful participants will be notified during the first week of July.

https://algorithmen-regieren.de/socializing-algorithms-conference

Anthem Press handbook on AI and Visual Culture.

A curated evening of performances and screenings by Pseudo Studios and CODED AESTHETICS

Line-up:
Live
@t__morimoto - The Present is an End, Browser performance
@jannahquill - Modular performance
@girlonroad.tech - Poetry LLMs performance

Screenings
@albadri.nora - The Post Truth Museum
@andrea_khora - RAPTURE
@inessieulle - The Oasis I Deserve!

The field of photography is being rapidly transformed by new forms of algorithmic modulation including Generative AI image models. How should we understand the relation between photographs and AI images? What are the specific materialities and evolving cultural politics of photography’s entanglement with generative computational image models?

This one-day symposium is relevant to anyone interested in the future of visual culture. Speakers include Michelle Henning (Professor of Photography and Media, Liverpool University), Anna Munster (Professor, School of Art & Design UNSW), Aarati Akkapeddi (artist); Jasmin Pfefferkorn (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne); Sara Oscar (artist and Senior Lecturer Visual Communication, UTS School of Design); Tom Penney (artist and Senior Lecturer Digital Design, RMIT School of Design); Jay Rosenbaum (artist and Lecturer Digital Design, RMIT School of Design); and Mat Spisbah (new media artist and curator, Artistic Director at Exhibitionist).

Date and time: December 4, 9.30am - 5.00pm
Location: North Lecture theatre, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne
Cost: free but please register at https://events.humanitix.com/taking-stock-photography-and-visual-media-in-the-context-of-genai

The event is hosted by the Research Unit for Public Cultures, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne and supported by the Australia Research Council grant DP200102781 Digital photography: mediation, memory and visual communication

‘Hylozoism’
Performance lecture by Mat Spisbah & Jasmin Pfefferkorn for Artists, Machines and the Space Between, part of Melbourne Fringe Festival. Our participation funded by Science Gallery Melbourne’s artist and researcher in residence programme.

What does it mean to be creative in the age of generative AI?
If this question resonates with you, join us in Berlin this summer for an event exploring the evolving relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence.

Over the course of three days, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human and Machine Creativity will bring together researchers from behavioural and computer science, philosophy and ethics, arts, communication, and media studies. The event will offer a space to exchange ideas, challenge assumptions, and envision new directions for understanding how both humans and machines shape creative expression.

The program will feature short presentations, moderated panel discussions, and opportunities for cross-disciplinary conversation. Beyond the formal sessions, participants will also be invited to take part in afternoon and evening visits to the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and other art events, bridging research with cultural practice in meaningful ways.

Prof. Iyad Rahwan
Director
Center for Humans and Machines
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

Dr. Matthew J. Dennis
Assistant Professor in Ethics of Technology
Eindhoven University of Technology

Dr. Jasmin Pfefferkorn
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Culture and Communications
The University of Melbourne

Yvonne Bialek
Scientific Research Coordinator
Center for Humans & Machines
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

Edited volume with Vanessa Bartlett, Jasmin Pfefferkorn, and Emilie K. Sunde, published in the Data Browser Series. The book argues that artists and cultural institutions are a vital force in constructing a collectively held ethics of human-machine assemblages.

Symposium that seeded the Seeing Photographically special issue of Media Theory.

Workshop on photorealism in the age of generative imaging.

Summer academy on data, art, and contemporary cultural practice.

Workshop interrogating photographic truth claims and synthetic media.