Registration now open: Final Conference "AI as factor and consequence of societal and cultural change", 2023/09/28-30

The final conference of the first funding phase of Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden will address the impact of the latest technological developments in the field of AI on the humanities and social sciences as well as on the arts, referring to the first guiding theme. Not only will the research of the first funding phase of the Lab be presented and summarized, but also the way of scientific and artistic work and the formation of perspectives on the object of investigation will be put to the test.
The conference is aimed in particular at actors conducting research at the interfaces of society, art and technology.

All fellows and resident artists of the first funding phase will participate in the conference.

Preview of the program

Keynotes

M. Beatrice Fazi (University of Sussex):
„Synthesis in Synthetic Media“

Sven Nyholm (LMU München):
„Generative AI’s Gappiness: Meaningfulness, Authorship, and the Credit-Blame Asymmetry“ 

Panels

„Akteurstatus und Agency“
Julia Schneider (Berlin), Norbert Huchler (ISF München), Sven Engesser (TUD)

„Braucht KI eine ,neue Ethik’?“
Bernhard Koch (UHH, Hamburg), Lukas Brand (RU Bochum), Christoph Widdau (OVGU, Magdeburg), Luise Müller (FU Berlin)

„Figuren des Zweifelns: Bildevidenz und KI“
Mira Anneli Naß (Universität Bremen), Christian Kosmas Mayer (Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2020, Wien), Luisa Feiersinger (HU Berlin)

„‚History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.‘ – Wandel und Persistenz kultureller Deutungsmuster der Künstlichen Intelligenz“
Daniela Zetti (TU München), Marcus Popplow (KIT, Karlsruhe), Moritz Ingwersen (TUD)

„Delegated Contingencies. Reflections on Social Theories of Machine Learning“
M. Beatrice Fazi (University of Sussex), Florian Jaton (Geneva Graduate Institute)

Discussions

„2020//2023: Das disruptive Potenzial von KI für Wissenschaft und Kunst“
Rainer Mühlhoff (Universität Osnabrück), Wolfgang Ullrich (München/Leipzig), Corinna Bath (Berlin)

„Von Laboren, Modulen und (weiteren) Experimenten: Transdisziplinäre Forschungspraxis auf dem Prüfstand“
Herrmann Diebel-Fischer (ScaDS.AI, TUD), Lisa Marie Küssel (CeTI, TUD), Lutz Hagen (Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden)

„Art meets Science – Science meets Art”
Esmeralda Conde Ruiz (Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2022, London), Anton Ginzburg (Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2021, New York), Ercan Altinsoy (TUD), Matthew McGinity (TUD)

Exihibition

Rosa Barba (Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2023)

Venue

Görges-Bau der TU Dresden
Helmholtzstraße 9
01062 Dresden

Registration

The conference will take place in attendance. Participation is free of charge. Registration is requested by 31 August 2023 via email:

Contact

Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden
Technische Universität Dresden
Z21, 3. OG/EG Zellescher Weg 21
01127 Dresden
Tel.: +49 351 463-44357 oder -44386
E-Mail: schaufler.tagung@tu-dresden.de
Web: https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/schauflerlab