Faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to attend a small-group discussion with visiting scholar Kris Paulsen. If you are interested in or working on topics of AI, media, computing, art and authorship, political economy – or even transmissions from Mars rovers – please register to join.
In advance, we will share two short works by Paulsen to help ground the discussion. From there, we will talk about the landscape of research on campus dealing with technology and the humanities. And of course, we encourage you to bring your own eclectic, humanistic questions for Paulsen and the group.
The first reading is from the journal October in which artists, historians, and curators were posed questions about art and machine learning, such as: How are artists collaborating with, changing, torquing, or critiquing AI systems? What is human or machine, creativity or computation, in the first place? The second reading, Martian Time Slips, explores the temporal and experiential complexities inherent in receiving sensory transmissions from Mars rovers.
To join: Space is limited and registration is required. To join, please send an email to rsvp@humanities.wisc.edu with your name, title, or affiliation. Light refreshments will be provided. We will share the advanced readings upon registration.
Later in the day, please join Paulsen for a special public lecture presented in collaboration with UW-Milwaukee’s Center for 21st Century Studies: Model Collapse: Art, AI, and the Seductions of Hallucination. This event is free and open to all, no registration required.
Dr. Kris Paulsen is Associate Professor in the Departments of History of Art and Theater, Film, and Media Arts at The Ohio State University. Her work traces the intersections of art and engineering, with a particular emphasis on telepresence, virtuality, and artificial intelligence. She is the author of Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface (MIT Press, 2017), as well as numerous articles and essays on contemporary art and new media, which have appeared in publications such as October, Representations, Media-N, Signs and Society, BOMB, Mousse, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, and X-TRA, and in exhibition catalogues for Zach Blas, Sarah Rosalena, Ann Hamilton, and Katherine Behar, among others.