Critical AI Graduate Conference Recap
On Tuesday, March 11th, members of Fabian Offert's interdisciplinary graduate seminar "Critical Theory and/of Artificial Intelligence" presented research and works-in-progress. Students from seven different departments shared their perspectives on the aesthetics, politics, and technics of AI. Presentations included:
The Burden of Indexicality: Truth, Historicity and Traces of the Past in AI-Enhanced Archival Footage
Rumi, Film and Media Studies
The Turing Test Genre
Paul Kim, Film and Media Studies
Harnessing AI for Chicanx-Indigenous Communities: Overcoming Stigma, Gatekeeping & Colonial Structures
Ricardo Mata Vasquez, Chicana and Chicano Studies
Montage: Stitches in the Fabric of Latent Space
Vivek Karthikeyan, Art
Designing with the Unpredictable: AI, XR, and the Future of Hybrid Architectures
Iason Paterakis, Media Arts & Technology
AI Image Generation as Fetish in Chen Qiufan’s "Gods Behind the Masks"
Mingyi Xiao, Comparative Literature
What's in a Model? Theorizing Peripheral Deep Learning Code
Owen Leonard, English
Knowledge and Dynamic Affordances of AI
Masoom Suchdeo, Technology Management