Encoding Cultures: David M. Berry | Automating Thought: Infrasomatization and the Exospherical Technical System

Recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence are revolutionizing the way with which we think and act. They give an idea of the fundamental changes that will affect our society in the coming years. The interdisciplinary symposium »Encoding Cultures. Living Amongst Intelligent Machines« brought scientists, programmers and developers, cultural theorists and artists into dialogue with a broader public. The lectures and discussions provide insight into the latest state of research and development in the field of machine learning and ask about the current and long-term effects of this technology on science, business, politics, art and society.

David M. Berry is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Sussex and Associate Member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. He will be a CRASSH Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge in 2018. His recent books include Critical Theory and the Digital (2014), Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation and Design (2015, with Michael Dieter) and Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age (2017, with Anders Fagerjord). He is currently a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow for his new research on “Reassembling the University: The Idea of a University in a Digital Age”. His forthcoming work includes The Idea of a Digital University (2019) and Philosophy After Computation (2019, with Beatrice Fazi). 

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