The Automated Condition. Manifestations and Narratives in Art, Literature and Culture

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12.00 OPENING ADDRESS Zoom 

Robert Felfe Art History, University of Graz
Co-operative Art Techniques — before and at the Beginning of Modernism

Moderated by Carolyn Yerkes Art and Archaeology, Princeton

1.30 LUNCH BREAK 

2.30 WORKSHOP FOR CONFERENCE PRESENTERS Zoom 

Grant Wythoff Digital Humanities, Princeton

Writing with AI

5.00 - 7.00 - Drop-in Happy Hour Winiberies 1 Palmer Square, Princeton

9.15 Panel I Automating Life [East Pyne 012 / Zoom]

Sean Lambert German, Berkeley  

Kleist’s Brood: Graceful Automata from the Mechanical Turk to Digital Dali 

Rebecca Uliasz Media Studies, Duke 

Larger than Life: Automation and Influence in the Wake of Creative AI 

Fabian Ebeling Media Studies, Eichstätt

Nicolas Schöffers’ aesthetic Machines as Prefigurations of Smart Environments

Moderated by Mary-Grayson Brook German, Princeton

10.45 Break

11.00 Panel II Automated Life 

Elisa Riga German, Boulder

The Art Instinct in Animals 

Yorick Joshua Berta Art History, Linz

Automated Endings: Transient Art in the 1960s 

Moderated by Ameli M. Klein Art History, Graz/Collective Rewilding

12.00 Lunch Break PCLS East Pyne 011

12.45 Panel III Automated Labor 

Dennis Schäfer German, Princeton 

From Script to Print: The Scales of Automation

Livia Foldes Design and Technology, Parsons 

NSFW Venus: Archives, Automated Censorship, and the Encoded Gaze 

Moderated by Diana Little English, Princeton

1.45 Break

2.30 Artist Talk 

Aarati Akkapeddi, in conversation with Mona Schubert Art History, Cologne/Graz 

Tender Taxonomies: Reflections on Working with Personal Materials as Training Data

9.15 Keynote Lecture and Film Screening [East Pyne 012 / Zoom]

Joanna Zylinska Media Philosophy & Critical Digital Practice, King’s College London

AUTO-FOTO-KINO: Imaging after Cinema and AI

Moderated by Dennis Schäfer German, Princeton

10.45 Break

11.00 Panel IV (Non-)Human Automations 

Paul Labelle Music, Bonn 

(Re)discovering the Human in History through Machine Learning – Jennifer Walshe’s A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol.1 

Mona Schubert Art History, Cologne/Graz 

Open Circuits. Conceptual Art and the Agency of the Camera

Moderated by Elisa Purschke German, Princeton

12.00 Lunch Break PCLS East Pyne 011

12.45 Panel V Psychology of Automation 

Manuela Mohr French, Montpellier 

A Life other than Human: The Evolution of Psychological Automatisms in mid-19th century French Fantastic

Marie-Louise James German, Princeton  

Automatism Meets Intermediality: On the Cutting Table of Max Ernst’s La femme 100 têtes (1929) 

J.C. Moran Gender Studies, Cambridge 

Clouds of Desire: Automating Love as Narrative Promise 

Moderated by Xiaoyao Guo German, Princeton

2.00 Break

2.30 Panel VI Automation Anxieties 

Hagen Schmitz Politics, Berlin 

Friedrich Pollock on Automation: Critical Thought on Technical Progress Between Karl Marx and Aldous Huxley

Verena Wolf German, Berkeley 

Narratives of Risk: Control and Automation in Christa Wolf’s Störfall

Julia Irwin Media, Berkeley

Object Recognition, ‘Cratology,’ and the Discursive Field in the Making of Cold War Military Image Intelligence 

Moderated by Florian Endres Comparative Literature, Princeton

3.45 Break

4.00 Final Discussion / Roundtable 

Princeton University Graduate School, Department of Art & Archaeology, Department of Classics, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of French and Italian, Department of Music, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Program in Cognitive Science, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, European Cultural Studies, Program in Media and Modernity, Center for Collaborative History, Center for Information Technology Policy, Center for Migration and Development, the School of Architecture, and the Council of European Studies.

In collaboration with the FWF-funded project “Co-operative Art Techniques” at the Center for Cultural Studies, University of Graz.