„Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?" – Ko-Kreativität und KI-Kunst 2024

Lecture series in the summer semester: AI and media upheavals in the arts
Organized by Prof. Dr. Angela Krewani and Dr. Kathrin Yacavone, Institute for Media Studies, in the Bachelor's study program 'Art, Music and Media: Organization and Mediation' at Philipps University Marburg. Supported with QSL funds from the state of Hesse.

Dates: Mondays 18.15-19.45

Location: Lecture hall 00A26, Deutschhausstraße 12, 35037 Marburg and online after prior registration: zellstudents.uni-marburgde

Description:
Artificial intelligence (AI) has now found its way into almost all areas of art and discussions on these changes have become a leading topic in the public sphere. The lecture series in the BA study program 'Art Music and Media - Organization and Mediation' in the summer semester 2024 is dedicated to the question of the extent to which generative AI algorithms in the fields of art, music, literature and media can be understood as a media upheaval. Based on the thesis that traditional and stable concepts in the arts are shifting as a result of AI, the structural changes of AI will be examined from an interdisciplinary perspective. In particular, the question of the readjustment of media references will be raised. Media theorists and media practitioners from computer science, art history, media studies and music, as well as from the fields of museums, photography and law are invited. The aim is to map the dimensions of media change and, accordingly, to identify new practices of aesthetic action. Students and other interested parties will thus be given access to a highly topical subject by proven experts.

Program:
15.04.2024 Kathrin Yacavone (Philipps-Universität Marburg): Upheavals in image media, from analog to AI
22.04.2024 Angela Krewani (Philipps University Marburg): Creativity in digital contexts
29.04.2024 Pamela C. Scorzin (Department of Design, Fachhochschule Dortmund): "Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?" - Co-creativity and AI art 2024
06.05.2024 Boris Eldagsen (photo and video artist, Berlin): Photography vs Promptography
13.05.2024 Roland Meyer (Ruhr University Bochum): Platform Realism. Generative AI and visual culture
27.05.2024 Maren Burghard (digital curator, Nuremberg): Machine Muse: AI-supported curating art
03.06.2024 Jenifer Becker (University of Hildesheim): Creative writing and storytelling with AI
10.06.2024 Peter Bell (Philipps-Universität Marburg): Machine vision and design. AI for art history and pop culture
17.06.2024 François Schwamborn (video & light artist, Saarbrücken): XR or how digital art detaches itself from the screen
24.06.2024 Grischka Petri (FIZ Karlsruhe / NFDI4Culture): Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue? On generative AI and the law
01.07.2024 Christian Banasik (Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences): AI assistance as the basis of compositional structures
08.07.2024 Final discussion

Open to students of all subjects and study programs, as well as interested parties inside and outside the university.

#Artificial intelligence #Media studies #Cultural history