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!
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:
Joerg Blumtritt, Director of the WIIH