Summary

From Hype to Reality: AI in the Study of Art and Culture – Symposium

20 – 21 April 2023

Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 69

Zurich, Switzerland

https://fromhypetoreality.com/

Program

Thursday 20.4.2023.

• 9:45 – 10:00 Opening introduction + Eva Cetinić
• 10:00 – 11:10 Lecture session I:

+ Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega: Exploring the Concept of Transduction to Interpret AI Mediated Cultural Productions

+ Leonardo Impett: A History of Machine Visuality

• 11:10 – 11:20 Mini-break
• 11:20 – 12:30 Lecture session II:

+ Amanda Wasielewski: AI and the Reification of Style

+ Fabian Offert: What Are Large Visual Models Models Of?

• 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
• 13:30 – 15:00 Presentation session I:

+ Nicolás Marín Bayona: We’ve Seen It All

+ Tristan Dot: On the Place of Computational Methods in the Historiography of Formalism

+ Valentine Bernasconi: The Reality Behind Working with Body Pose Estimation on Paintings: Another Truth

+ Pepe Ballesteros Zapata: Dialectical Light: A Methodological Comparison

• 15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break
• 15:15 – 16:15 Presentation session II:

+ Sinem Aslan: The ‘RePAIR’ project (Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics meet Cultural Heritage)

+ Paul Guhennec: Architectural History at Scale

+ Nicola Carboni: Analysis of the Material Limitations of Data Infrastructures: Overcoming the Database

• 16:15 – 17:00 Wrap-up discussion

 

Friday 21.4.2023.

• 10:00 – 11:10 Lecture session III:

+ Dejan Grba: Incidental Reverberations: Poetic Similitudes in AI Art

+ Anne-Laure Oberson: From Visibilities to Images: Can AI Models Offer Us a Look Beyond the Invisible?

• 11:10 – 11:20 Mini-break
• 11:20 – 12:30 Lecture session IV:

+ Adrian Notz: From Dada to AI

+ Heiko Schmid: Heteromated Curating. Serving, Collaborating or Controlling?

• 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
• 13:30 – 15:00 Presentation session III:

+ Bokar N’Diaye: Stochastic Parrots in the Ancient City? Classical Greece as an Alternative Lens for the AI Debate

+ Darío Negueruela del Castillo, Iacopo Neri: Mimetic Dreams. The Cultural Significance of Multimodal Machine Learning Models Beyond Apophenia

+ Arif Kornweitz: AI and the Concept of the Work

+ Dominik Vrabič Dežman: Interrogating the Deep Blue Sublime: Artificial Intelligence in the Media Imaginary

• 15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break
• 15:15 – 16:15 Presentation session IV:

+ Piera Riccio: Algorithmic Censorship of Art

+ Jason Armitage: Assessing the Evaluation of Image and Language Generation Methods

+ Ludovica Schaerf: Synthetic Data in Art Historical Datasets? Considerations from the Case Study on Art Authentication

• 16:15 – 17:00 Wrap-up discussion

Registration

Public event with registration

The participation in the symposium is free and open to everyone. The event will take place on-site in Zurich (Switzerland), and will be live streamed via Zoom.

To register for the event (for either on-site or online participation) please go to: registration

For any additional questions, please send an email to eva.cetinic@uzh.ch