I thoroughly enjoyed Antonio Somaini’s lecture tonight on the Politics of Latent Spaces at the conference Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

His reflections on compression as a cultural and epistemic process were truly inspiring — and the sources cited were excellent, too ;)

#AI #LatentSpaces #DigitalCulture #Compression #Vectorization #NeuralNetworks #ArtAndAI #MachineVision #epistemiccompression #AIAesthetics @databasecultures

The conference Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians continues tomorrow at AdBK Munich!

Wed, June 4, 12–19
Akademiestraße 2, Central Lecture Hall – free admission
With Simon Denny, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Navine G. Dossos, Mat Dryhurst, Constant Dullaart & more.

Streaming link at the bottom of the page:
🔗 https://generativemedia.net/event/art-in-the-age-of-average/

#AI #ArtAndAI #LatentSpaces #MachineVision #GenerativeMedia #Munich #AIEthics #ContemporaryArt @generativemedia

Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

ConferenceTue, June 3, 17.30-21 and Wed, June 4, 12-19 at AdBK Munich, Akademiestraße 2, Central Lecture Hall, free admission With: Gregory Chatonsky, Simon Denny, Navine G. Dossos, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Mat Dryhurst, Constant Dullaart, Antonio Somaini – Streaming link at the page end – The