ART OR ARTIFICIAL
Art, Digitization & Artificial Intelligence
Lecture series at the Arts Club Berlin
Digital technologies are ubiquitous in our everyday lives. The post-digital age is omnipresent, also in the areas of art and culture.
ART OR ARTIFICIAL explores the consequences for the art sector looking at the field of visual arts, the art market, museums as mediators of art, or literature.
ART WITHOUT ARTISTS?
Digital Technologies in Art
They are on everyone's lips, but by no means in everyone's mind: artificial intelligence, crypto art, blockchain & Co. Gaby Schulze provides an overview with explanations of terms.
Speaker:
Artist, lecturer at the FU Berlin, New Media department (NFT, VR, AR)
THREE ARTISTIC POSITIONS IN THE DIGITAL SPACE
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How do new technologies and their possibilities influence the work of visual artists?
What are the reasons, the impulse to work with these technologies?
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Speaker:
Patricia Detmering, Artist
Ornella Fieres, Artist
Simon Weckert, Artist
Host:
Ila Wingen, Artist
AS IF BY MAGIC -
CURATING WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Digital curation - It sounds absurd at first, since the curation process is known to be a very personal matter that has to be followed with sensitivity.
Nevertheless, AI is already used in this field. How? What are the up-sides, what the limitations?
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Speaker:
Yvonne Zindel, Author, Curator, Educator for Digital Art
DIGITALIZATION, THE INTELLIGENT SWARM AND THE MUSEUM
To what extent can museums use digital technologies to do justice to their audience's changed modes of reception and communication? Could digital technologies revolutionize the museum and its relationship with the audience?
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Speaker:
Sandra Becker, Artist, Digital transformation processes
Viola Rosenau, Project Manager Collection Online, Humboldt Forum Berlin
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Host:
Anja Eichler
READING IN THE AGE OF THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION
Digital media influence our reading behavior, especially in the younger generation. Media such as Twitter educate to short messages, Instagram & Co communicate in pictures and videos. Long texts appear old-fashioned. Are digital technologies just a threat to literature or also an opportunity? How can digital technologies revolutionize literature?
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Speaker:
Christiane Hütter, Story Telling & Game Design
Host:
Anja Eichler
AUGEMENTED ARCHIVES -
The merging of time and place in digital space
Our world is spinning faster and faster. It is not so much a question of whether information is available, but rather whether it can be found. The novelty of the information, user behavior and the algorithms of the social networks play a major role in this. How can images remain in our attention, how can real places be connected to the virtual world?
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Speaker:
Kaya Behkalam Ph.D., Media Artist, Researcher
Host:
Frauke Beeck, Artist
ORIGINAL AND SIMULATION
When AI makes art
AI ​​is already writing texts and novels, painting pictures like Van Gogh, composing scores à la Johann Sebastian Bach and the like.
Will there still be human artists or just AI in the future? With this presentation, the circle closes to the question asked in our first event.
Speaker:
Dr. Tabea Golgath, Program Management LINK-KI and culture, Lower Saxony Foundation
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Host:
Anja Eichler
PROJECT TEAM
Monika Bartsch - Curator
Anja Eichler - Curator
Sabine Schneider - Project Lead
Katarzyna Sekulla - Project Organization
Boris Eldagsen - Social Media Design/Campaign/Streaming
Jürgen Scriba - Technical Support
The lecture series was made possible with the kind support of
