In this conference, it is the aim to understand whether it is possible to embrace Artificial Intelligence despite its controversial application and employment in today’s digitized society.

By looking at the limits and at times inaccessible promises of this technology, this conference explores the impossible possibilities of AI that go beyond the understanding and blunt imitation of pure cognition. It aims at continuing and opening up discussions that explore AI as an embodied experience, as a sensual, magical, mysterious, poetic technology, a technology of futures, while keeping in mind that this technology does not only reveal the inequality and injustice embedded in digital and social codes; it is also an experimental attempt, a lab, that is enthusiastic about discovering and envisioning the possibilities of a decolonial, queer-feminist, capitalist-critical and ecologically networked society.

Contributing speakers/ artists:
Syed Mustafa Ali, Tegan Bristow, Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield, Filipa César, Danielle Coleman, Dreaming Beyond AI (Buse Çetin & Sarah Diedro), Paul Feigelfeld, Radhika Gajjala, Maya Indira Ganesh, Neema Githere, Orit Halpern, Tung Hui-Hu, Petja Ivanova, MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Isabel Paehr), Luiza Prado de O. Martins, The Underground Division (Femke Snelting & Jara Rocha), Varia, Joana Varon, Whose Knowledge, more t.b.a.
Organized by Katrin Köppert, Nelly Yaa Pinkrah, Francesca Schmidt and Pinar Tuzcu

Registration: any_one@hgb-leipzig.de (for capacity reasons, please indicate whether you would like to attend one or both workshops)

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