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Prof. Dr. Elke Katharina Wittich on “Arts and the Machine - Humanities, Artificial Intelligence and the Question of Connectivism”

Prof. Dr. Elke Katharina Wittich on “Arts and the Machine - Humanities, Artificial Intelligence and the Question of Connectivism”

© Emmony/Weidenbach “Infinite Loop”

ZEW Director Prof. Dr. Elke Katharina Wittich will speak at the conference Beyond the "Infinite Loop". Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence in Art and Art History on Friday, 1.4.2022, 1pm-3pm (German time); 12pm-2pm (UK time). The digital workshop is hosted by

Staatliche Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek Munich, Germany
www.antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de/index.php/en/

and

Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuermberg, Germany
www.gnm.de/en/

Participation is possible without registration.

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Based on the experimental project "Infinite Loop" by Silvia Weidenbach (jewellery artist) and Jon Emmony (artist), the symposium presents the uses of AI in the visual arts as well as in art history and media studies and questions them with an expanded philosophical-cultural-historical view of their chances and possibilities: Where are we today? Is it even possible to imagine our everyday life and thus also our dealings with art and science without AI? What new worlds does AI open up for us? What new creative processes are triggered by AI in dialogue with man and machine? How can art history and archaeology be brought to life in the future in interaction with AI?

In their joint project "Infinite Loop", Silvia Weidenbach and Jon Emmony design a ring with the help of an artificial intelligence. They anchor their work in cultural history: photographs of rings from different collections (including the Antikensammlungen Munich, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg and The Alice and Louis Koch Collection in The Swiss National Museum, Zurich) are analysed by the artificial intelligence to develop new forms. The final product will be on display in both Munich and Nuremberg museums from July. This creates a dialogue between historical, handcrafted jewellery and the technology of tomorrow. New processes are generated, unique works recreated. This workshop already gives space to the dialogue between past and future.

In the first section of the workshop, four artists currently working on art projects with AI from different disciplines will contribute their experiences and perspectives. They will present their works, which are created in the interaction and dialogue between man and machine. What happens in such an - accidental - interaction? What new ways of seeing the world take shape?

In the 2nd section, archaeologists, art historians and scientists open up current and historical perspectives. What impulses and new technologies came from art and craft in the past? How does a profitable link with historical knowledge work? What status does AI have at museums, art and media colleges and universities? What perspectives are conveyed to visitors and students?


Programme / Speakers:

Introduction (Silvia Weidenbach, Jon Emmony, Dr. Heike Zech, Dr. Astrid Fendt)  

Art and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  1. Infinite Loop“: Jon Emmony (Digital Artist, London) & Silvia Weidenbach (Jewellery Artist, Glasgow)

  2. Dialogue”: Jon Emmony & Silvia Weidenbach with Tom Furse (Artist / Musician, London) and Sofia Crespo (Artist, London)

 Discussion

Science / Museum / (Art- and Media-) Universities and AI

  1. The Art of Granulation – ‚AI‘ in Antiquity”: Dr. Astrid Fendt (Senior Curator, Staatliche Antikensammlungen and Glyptothek Munich)

  2. Nuremberg Renaissance silver: innovation between art and craft”: Dr. Heike Zech (Deputy Director, Head of Decorative Arts,  Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg)

  3. The finger ring, a defined form with an incredible wealth of interpretations”: Dr. Beatriz Chadour-Sampson (Freelance jewellery historian, London and Consultant curator for the Swiss National Museum, Zurich)

  4. Arts and the Machine - Humanities, Artificial Intelligence and the Question of Connectivism”: Prof. Dr. Elke Katharina Wittich (Head of Zentrale Einrichtung für Weiterbildung / Central Institution for Continuing Education, Leibniz Universität Hannover)

  5. AI – buzzword or game changer? Implications for higher education and working life”: Prof. Dr. Stephanie Heinecke (Communication Studies, Hochschule Fresenius University of Applied Science Munich)