events
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Dronomation
Post-Civil Drones and Artificial ‚Intelligence‘ in War Zones December 3, 2024, on-line, 12.00–20.00 Zoom Link anfordern If this form doesn’t work, contact us via francis.hunger /at/ adbk.mhn.de The one-day online conference looks to present contemporary critiques of drone-technologies, their scopic regimes and increasing reliance on so-called AI systems. Instead of fetishising the presumed autonomy of…
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If AI was the answer what was the question, again?
Conference on Tue, Nov 5, 09–18 at AdBK Munich, Akademiestraße 2, Main Building, Central Lecture Hall, free admission With: Elisa Giardina Papa, Orit Halpern, Francis Hunger, Vladan Joler, & Evelyn Kreutzer, Kevin B. Lee, RYBN, Felix Stalder, Hito Steyerl The political economy of AI impacts on both its generative output as well as on art scenes and…
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ROOT /ruːt/
self-organized exhibition in the frame of the Jahressausstellung der AdBK München. individual works Arriving at critical inquiry of one’s resource, energy and raw material consumption –particularly in scope of the speculative discourse encompassing new media technology, machine learning and generative processes –has become a codex for curating with the multi-faceted nature of the term ‘root’.…
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Stable Diffusion
Lecture: Björn Ommer. Tue 11 June, 2024, 7 pm, Room E.O3.26 (Emergent Digital Media class), New Building, Academy of Fine Arts Munich Since 2022, Stable Diffusion has become one of the most important generative models in the field of so-called artificial intelligence, alongside Midjourney and Open AI’s Dall‑E. Since Stable Diffusion aligns with the open…
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The Opticality Unconscious
Lecture by Amanda Wasielewski Tue May 28, 2024, 7pm, Room E.O2.29, Neubau, AdBK München Inspired by Rosalind Krauss’s book The Optical Unconscious, Amanda Wasielewskis lecture explores how a hybrid practice of writing and image creation can shed light on the often-derided strictures of mid-century modernism in New York, namely the ideas of opticality and visual…
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Dreamworlds of Platform Capitalism
Synthetic Media in Networked Image Cultures Lecture by Roland Meyer Tue May 14, 2024, 7pm, Room E.O2.29, Neubau, AdBK München While the initial hype surrounding AI image synthesis models such as Dall‑E, Midjourney, or Stable Diffusion is fading, their massive impact on networked image cultures is becoming ever clearer: Social media platforms are flooded with…