Dear List-Members, I invite you to the symposium "RE-IMAGINING AI – Scholars, Artists and Designers in Dialogue" 20.–21.06.2019 in Basel, Switzerland.
Hosted by the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in collaboration with HeK, House of Electronic Arts Basel, a small group of highly distinguished scholars and research oriented artists/designers will come together in Basel to discuss theoretical reflections on, artistic engagements with, and designerly critiques of infrastructures, technologies, epistemologies and aesthetics of artificial intelligence (AI). The symposium aims at discussing existing works and identifying novel fields of artistic and designerly engagement with a domain of computing that increasingly changes our understandings of human intelligence, transforms our habitats and suggests new ways of living. So far, aesthetic works on AI typically concentrate on revealing, amplifying and playing with machine vision, pattern detection, deep learning, automated sense-making, and advanced techniques of image manipulation in a way that complements, enriches, and disturbs scholarly thinking about the transformations these technologies entail. Utopias and dystopias of artificial intelligences, smart environments and computationally optimized lives as observed, reflected, interpreted, augmented and worked through by artists and designers multiply our often too limited, too situated and ultimately deadlocked ideas of what artificial intelligence could come to involve. More information here: https://www.ixdm.ch/reimagining-ai/ Best, Shintaro ------------------------------------------------------------ University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland Academy of Art and Design Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures Dr. phil. Shintaro Miyazaki Senior Researcher/ Programme Curator Critical Media Lab Freilager-Platz 1, Postfach CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------ T +41612284163 shintaro.miyaz...@fhnw.ch
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