Luciana Parisi Aesthetic Colliders in AI Vision

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• 00:00:00

  us at CalArts. My name is Amanda Beach, I'm the Dean of the School of Critical Studies up at CalArts and I'm chairing these three talks. This is the second talk night, we have the third talk which is April the 10th I think with Rachel Garfield, just to let you know about that one in the future. And this series…

• 00:15:50

  I'll just leave this slide for a second because I didn't turn it at the right moment. Francois Laruelle's argument about the transcendental computer may be of help here to sustain my point. Automated reason and automated aesthetics for Laruelle may coincide with algorithmic automatism, which is definitely, he says…

• 00:27:45

  As Yook Hui has already demonstrated, in his attempt at discussing cybernetic metaphysics, the circularity of self-reflectivity can only be understood in terms of recursivity or recursive function, namely entailing a feedback or a return to initial conditions and, as such, coinciding with reason as a procedure that…

• 00:38:05

  The entire Dalli E2 model hinges on CLIP's ability to learn semantics from natural language. This is important because what ultimately determines how semantically related a natural language snippet is to a visual concept, which is what actually becomes a text conditional generated image. After training, the CLIP model…

• 00:49:05

  In other words, it is a non-incomplete thinking. That is what Stefano Arni and Fred Moder call incompleteness is a weapon of theory, is a weapon for theory, a collective theorizing that has no individual subject, no property and no ontology. Non-instrumental instrumentality for me, therefore, it exposes…

• 01:02:18

  Sorry, my critique of the human and the project of humanity is central to this work. So for me, instrumentality is exactly try to take away technology from the human. From the kind of dogmatic ideal belief of an extension of man through the transhuman. For me, the transhuman is just an extension of man. It's…

• 01:12:09

  I don't think it's the same because things have changed. There's been fights and rebellion and killing and genocides for that question to happen, right? So I don't think it's the same. I don't know if that makes sense. Yeah. Thank you. If I may, I can't help, I just like, I want to ask a question too. And I really, I…

• 01:22:00

  Me too. Thank you very much. And finally, thank you to you for coming. Really appreciate it massively. And also, of course, to Luciana for this amazing talk. Thank you so much. And see you for drinks. Thank you. Thank you very much.