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Artificial Imagination and Human Anticipation

Fri
24
Feb
Time Friday 24 February, 2023 at 12:15 - 13:00
Place Online via Zoom

Drawing on her philosophical work and her art practice, Joanna Zylinska will interrogate whether we can actively mobilise nonhuman creativity as a way of opening up our all too human ways of thinking and acting. She will also explore whether AI, rooted as it is in the extractivist logic of the tech industry, can overcome its own material conditions of existence. Could AI play the role of a philosopher-visionary that will show us a way out of the current socio-political impasse? Could it get beyond the limitations of our human frames of mind to imagine a different set of propositions and arrangements for us? Could it help us envisage a better future?

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Joanna Zylinska is an artist, writer, curator, and Professor of Media Philosophy and Critical Digital Practice at King’s College London. She is an author of a number of books, including AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams (Open Humanities Press, 2020), The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and Nonhuman Photography [4] (MIT Press, 2017). An advocate of “radical open-access,” she is an editor of the MEDIA: ART WRITE: NOW book series for Open Humanities Press. Her art practice involves experimenting with different kinds of image-based media. She is currently researching perception and cognition as boundary zones between human and machine intelligence, while using machine learning to try and answer the question: “Does photography have a future?"

Event type: Lecture

Joanna Zylinska is an artist, writer, curator, and Professor of Media Philosophy and Critical Digital Practice at King’s College London.

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