Online Conference AESTHETICS, DIGITALIZATION, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

August 8, 2024  

10:00 - 10:15 am          Welcome

10:15 - 10:50 am          Can AI Art? An Aesthetic Critique, Dieter Mersch (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste)

11:00 - 11:35 am          The Affordance of Technical Images: Humans as Shepherds of AI-based Image Production, Oliver Zöllner (Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart)

11:45 - 12:20 am          Transmedia and Transdisciplinary Forms: AI as a Catalyst for Connecting Art and Theory, Simon Waskow (Hochschule Düsseldorf)

01:30 - 02:05 pm          Photography And The Techno-Automatic Paradigm in The Arts And Aesthetics, Snjezana Simic (Cral (EHESS/CNRS) Paris)

02:15 - 02:50 pm          On the Experi(m)ental Aesthetics of Digital Feminisms, Sandra Meireis (TU Berlin)

03:00 - 03:35 pm          Aesthetic Manifestations: Public Interest Design and Spatial Models, Christiane Wagner (Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin)

August 9, 2024 

10:00 - 10:35 am          Can Computers Create Art?, Göran Hemerén (Lund University)

10:45 -11:20 am            The Aesthetic Impact of Computer-Assisted Composition: Bernard Stiegler and the Contemporary Composers, Sebastiano Gubian (UdK Berlin – Musik)

11:30 - 12:05 am          AI, Art and Kitsch, Lisa Schmalzried (Universität Hamburg)

01:30 - 02:05 pm          Social Media and Aesthetic Media: Two Regimes of Attention Economy, Vincius de Aguiar (University of Lisbon)

02:15 - 02:50 pm          The Bodily-Aspect of AI-Based Art: Immersive Digital Sensual Experience, Gülben Salman & Cemre Su Kavalalı (Ankara University)

03:00 - 03:35 pm          NEITHER IRL NOR URL: The ontologically puzzling status of Internet memes, Jay Luong (UC Berkeley)

03:35 - 03:45 pm          Goodbye

Organization

Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

PD Dr. Lisa Schmalzried, Universität Hamburg 

Participation

If you want to participate, please get in touch with lisa.schmalzried@uni-hamburg.de until August 5, 2024.