Keynote by Prof. Orit Halpern @GenerativeMedia on Nov.5th: Speculative Nets: Artificial Intelligence, Finance, and Reactionary Politics

If AI was the answer what was the question, again?

Conference on Tue, Nov 5, 09–18 at AdBK Munich, Akademiestraße 2, Main Building, Central Lecture Hall, free admission

With: Elisa Giardina Papa, Orit Halpern, Francis Hunger, Vladan Joler, Kevin B. Lee, RYBN, Felix Stalder, Hito Steyerl 

The political economy of AI impacts on both its generative output as well as on art scenes and creative labor. Which strategies and tactics can artists employ in a  sphere of corporate generative media to avoid redundancy and their own obsolescence? 

The conference tackles these questions through multiple perspectives: Theft and extraction of data from users to train large generative AI models. The replacement of human labor, or the simulation of machine labor through human labor. The environmental impact of heavy computation.

How do these become visible within generative output? How do they modify the conditions of artistic labor and what are strategies of resistance against corporate extraction? How can art and art education react in the face of the serious challenges to arts‘ aesthetic and material environment?

Schedule

09.00 Talk: Felix Stalder – Unreal Creations. Generative AI as premonition

10.00 Elisa Giardina Papa

11.00 Vladan Joler – Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

12.00 Break

13.00 RYBN – Human Computers, a laborious mediarcheological study

14.00 Kevin B. Lee – The Generative Afterlife of an Extremist Archive

15.00 Orit Halpern – Speculative Nets: Artificial Intelligence, Finance, and Reactionary Politics

16.00 AUDIO, PLATFORMS, LABOR, intervention

17.00 Response by Hito Steyerl and Francis Hunger

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