Alain Servais - moderator
Els Vermang - LAb[au]
On 14 September, Contemporary Istanbul 2017 presents a second panel NTiCA (new technologies in contemporary art) which will examine how the human aesthetics as we recognize it today, is experiencing a change in the development of software, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
Aesthetics has always been linked to the human’s ability to feel emotions. Thus, can we consider aesthetics as something that is only related to the “human sphere”? If not, how do we frame it in a post-human, hyper-technologized society?
Within the context of contemporary art, these speakers will discuss the possibility of aesthetics outside of an object-oriented discourse. And consider the existence of an immaterialized aesthetic of data offering a new format to work with reality.
These speakers will also try to understand to what extent robots, Ai software, and algorithms will be able to create something that is entirely new.
This panel will be led and accompanied by:
Alain Servais (Moderator)
Among the first collectors of digital art, Alain Servais has built up a highly versatile and forward-looking contemporary art collection.
Ahmed Elgammal
Founder and Director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Rutgers University, New Jersey. The lab was formed five years ago and works on aspects of perception and cognition related to human creativity in order to develop artificial intelligence.
Jussi Parikka
New media theorist and Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton), Jussi Parikka is also Docent of digital culture theory at the University of Turku in Finland.
Els Vermang – LAb[au]
Els I. R. L. Vermang (1981) is an artist and curator based in Brussels questioning contemporary aesthetics and semiotics, though algorithmic and conceptual thinking.
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