IHA is pleased to announce Andrés Burbano as Keynote Speaker of the International Conference “Towards an Automated Art? Learning Machines, Human Creativity and Uncertainty”, which will take place on the 24th of May, at NOVA FCSH, in Lisbon.
Andrés Burbano is Professor in the Arts and Humanities School at the Open University of Catalunya, UOC (Barcelona, Spain), and Visiting Lecturer at Donau-Universität (Krems, Austria). He holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California at Santa Barbara (California, USA) and has developed part of his academic career in the School of Architecture and Design at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). Burbano works as a researcher, curator and interdisciplinary artist. His research projects focus on media history and media archaeology in Latin America and the Global South, 3D modeling of archaeological sites and also on the historical and cultural impact of computational technologies. He is the author of the book Different Engines: Media Technologies from Latin America published by Routledge in 2023.
In his talk, entitled “Do Machines Deep Dream of Automated Artists?“, he will explore issues on the cross-relations between AI and the arts, but “rather than examining the influence of AI on the arts, the focus will shift towards exploring the significant contributions made by the arts to contemporary conceptions and practices related to AI while also engaging in critical discussions about it.”
More information about the conference and Andrés Burbano’s talk is available on the conference website.
The registration for the conference is now open.
Deadline: until 5 May, 2024.
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The International Conference “Towards an Automated Art? Learning Machines, Human Creativity and Uncertainty” is a collaboration between the Art History Institute, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa – School of Social Sciences and Humanities; Universidad de León (Spain): Instituto de Humanismo y Tradición Clásica and Grupo de Investigación de Estudios Literarios y Comparados. Insólito, Género y Humanidades Digitales; Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa; and Museu Zer0, Tavira.