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Lecture by Prof. Dr. Markus Krajewski, media historian, University of Basel

The lecture series “Can AI think (artistically)” opens up a joint testing ground for the question of whether and how AI works artistically. We invite guests from the arts and sciences to discuss the artistic potential of AI in concrete projects and theories. The focus is on the (historical) conditions and processes under which a poetics can be asserted, as well as the political and material foundations of artistic practice through statistical renderings. The lectures combine insights into work processes with critical analysis of infrastructure and responsibility, and frame the work in the accompanying seminars.

Accompanying the lecture series is a theoretical seminar (Elisa Linseisen) and a practical seminar (Friedrich von Borries, Alexander Doudkin) in which students will use, test, hack, and reinterpret the AI platform https://art-of-x.com