Program
Unpacking Generativity. Epistemology, Politics, and Aesthetics of Generative AI Systems
Symposium at TUD Dresden University of Technology
SLUB, Open Science Lab 1
October7th, 2025
Program PDF here
Program
9:30-10:00 Arrival and Registration
10:00-10:30 Introduction by Niklas Egberts, Jasmin Höning, and Nelly Saibel
10:30-12:00 Epistemology
Keynote by Sun-ha Hong (UNC Chapel Hill): The Epistemic Hall of Mirrors and Generativity's Miasma
Lightning Talk by Yannick Nepomuk Fritz (Basel University): The Process that Produced the Text". (Post-)Structuralist Projections on LLMs
Lightning Talk by Konstantin Mitrokhov (Leuphana University): Machine Learning Worlds: On the Construction of Meaning in General Purpose Computing
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:30 Politics
Keynote by Rainer Mühlhoff (Osnabrück University): Generative AI and Neo-Fascist Politics
Lightning Talk by Nora Freya Lindemann (Osnabrück University): Sealed Knowledges - Epistemic Implications of LLMs
Lightning Talk by Sandeep Mertia (Stevens Institute of Technology): Such Generativity, Much Monocultural: Aspirational Colonialism of Non-English LLMs
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-16:30 Aesthetics
Keynote by Vera Tollmann (Leuphana University): What AI Generated Video Art Shows Us - Conceptual Shifts of the Image
Lightning Talk by Alexandra Gilliams (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University): Artificial Optics: The "Myth of the Machine" in AI Art
Lightning Talk by Larissa Lenze (Paderborn University): Re-Imagining Nature with GenAI Myth, Co-Creation and the Role of Big Tech in Refik Anadol's Large Nature Model
16:30 -16:45 Short Coffee Break
16:45-17:30 Closing Plenary
Discussion with Keynote speakers Sun-Ha Hong, Rainer Mühlhoff, and Vera Tollmann, moderated by Özgün Eylül İşcen (Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden)
The symposium is organized by Niklas Egberts, Jasmin Höning, and Nelly Saibel as part of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden.
The symposium is funded by TUD Dresden University of Technology and THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION.
Vegan catering is provided by Café V-Cake.