Black and white image showing Vilem Flusser's head on a 1980s computer screen, black background. A laser printer next to the screen.

Talk 1: AI, Artists, and the Future of Creativity

Vince Warne gives an Introduction to Vilém Flusser and his thoughts on AI art at the WIIH.

When: Wednesday, October 9, 330 pm
Where: Mary Lyon Hall, May Room

More information on the Wheaton Blog!

Bruce Sterling wearing glasses looking into the camera

Talk 2: The artistic merits of automated statistics

Bruce Sterling talks about AI at the WIIH.

When: Wednesday, October 23rd, 215pm
Where: Mary Lyon Hall, May Room

More information on the Wheaton Blog!


AI Conversations

Informal discussions around the topic of AI and the humanities.

When: Wednesday, October 30, 500 pm

and Tuesday, November 19, 500 pm

Where: tba

We want to group Ideas and discussions around reclaiming AI for the humanities around three key dimensions:

1. The theory of AI

  • AI metaphysics and the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness: What is the state of AI philosophy 70 years after the Dartmouth Workshop?
  • Artificial Life and Metacreation
  • AI and free will
  • AI aesthetics: Looking at the work of art in the age of its technical producability.

2. The practice of AI

  • AI ethics: Towards policies, regulations, and laws
  • AI design: Shaping things with generative systems
  • AI art: Artists use AI and respond to its challenges
  • AI and languages: Natural language processing, machine translation, text generation
  • AI and the creative industry: The economy and challenges of generative creativity

3. The future of AI

  • Speculating about the future, taking perspective from science fiction, speculative design, and strategic foresight:
    What was, what will become … imagining a century of AI

For questions, comments, and suggestions, please reach out to me:

[email protected]

Joerg Blumtritt, Director of the WIIH


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