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

Summer Semester Lecture Series: AI and Media Disruptions in the Arts
Organized as part of the bachelor’s study program “Art, Music, and Media: Organization and Communication” at Philipps University of Marburg by Prof. Dr. Angela Krewani and Dr. Kathrin Yacavone, Institute for Media Studies. Supported by QSL funding from the State of Hesse.

Dates: Mondays, 6:15–7:45 p.m.

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

Description:
Artificial intelligence (AI) has now found its way into nearly all areas of the arts, and discussions about these changes have become a dominant topic in the public sphere. In the summer semester of 2024, the lecture series in the BA study program “Art, Music, and Media—Organization and Mediation” will explore the question of to what extent generative AI algorithms in the fields of art, music, literature, and media can be understood as a media revolution. Based on the thesis that AI is shifting traditional and stable concepts in the arts, the lecture series will examine the structural changes brought about by AI from an interdisciplinary perspective. In particular, it will address the question of how media references are being realigned. Media theorists and media practitioners from computer science, art history, media studies, and music, as well as from the fields of museology, photography, and law, are invited to participate. Together with them, the dimensions of media transformation will be mapped out, and new practices of aesthetic action will be identified accordingly. This will provide students and other interested parties with an introduction to a highly topical subject by recognized experts.

Program:
April 15, 2024 Kathrin Yacavone (Philipps University of Marburg): Upheavals in Visual Media, from Analog to AI
April 22, 2024 Angela Krewani (Philipps University of Marburg): Creativity in Digital Contexts
April 29, 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
May 6, 2024 Boris Eldagsen (photographer and video artist, Berlin): Photography vs. Promptography
May 13, 2024 Roland Meyer (Ruhr University Bochum): Platform Realism. Generative AI and Visual Culture
May 27, 2024 Maren Burghard (digital curator, Nuremberg): Machine Muse: AI-Assisted Curatorial Art
June 3, 2024 Jenifer Becker (University of Hildesheim): Creative Writing and Storytelling with AI
June 10, 2024 Peter Bell (Philipps University of Marburg): Machine Vision and Design. AI for Art History and Pop Culture
June 17, 2024 François Schwamborn (video and light artist, Saarbrücken): XR, or How Digital Art Is Breaking Free from the Screen
June 24, 2024 Grischka Petri (FIZ Karlsruhe / NFDI4Culture): Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue? On Generative AI and the Law
July 1, 2024 Christian Banasik (Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences): AI Assistance as the Basis for Compositional Structures
July 8, 2024 Closing Discussion

Open to students of all disciplines and study programs, as well as to interested individuals both within and outside the university.

#Artificial intelligence #Media studies #Cultural history