Autorzy:
dr Oliver Schürer – senior researcher and deputy director at the Institute of Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technology at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology). In 2014, he founded H.A.U.S. (Humanoids in Architecture and Urban Spaces), a transdisciplinary research group conducting art-based research.
About the lecture: Important yet unintended precursors of contemporary AI were Ningyō and Automata. Driven by an unprecedented fascination with mechanized replicas of human beings, and developed independently of one another in the cultures of Japan and Europe in the 18th century. Artificial agents are a term used to express common features of robotic devices and artificial intelligence systems. To hint at our contemporary situation with artificial agents and their anthropomorphizing, the talk sketches a cultural narrative about their emergence. Why are cultures driven to replicate living humans in non-living devices? Do we find an answer in the aesthetics of hybrid human-agent movements?
