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.