28.10.2025
Keynote by Prof. Dr.Orit Halpern - Planetary Design: On the Emerging Logics of Generative AI on 30.10.2025 at 19:00
VI PER Gallery cordially invites you to attend a lecture entitled “Planetary Design: On the Emerging Logics of Generative AI” by Orit Halpern. The event will take place on Thursday, October 30, 2025 at 7pm CET. For more information please visit vipergallery.org.
Orit Halpern: Planetary Design: On the Emerging Logics of Generative AI on 30/10/2025 19:00
We arguably live in a new age of planetary design supported by ubiquitous computing. Eco-cities and smart cities are but the most visible manifestations of this new ‘generative’ condition. This talk will interrogate how design is being transformed in our present through new bio, financial, and information technologies, and how new ideas about ‘generative’ technologies and environments are transforming the aesthetics, politics, and economics of our present.
Orit Halpern is the Lighthouse Professor and the Chair of Digital Cultures at Technische Universität Dresden. Her research is on histories of cybernetics, design, politics, and artificial intelligence. She is the author of two books, The Smartness Mandate (MIT Press 2023) and Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 (Duke Press 2015). She is currently working on two projects. The first is a history of automating decision making, reactionary politics, and freedom and the second examines the history of experimentation at planetary scales in design, science, and engineering.