Program

Encoding Cultures. Living Amongst Intelligent Machines

Face of a woman. The portrait, which looks like a painting, was created with the help of artificial intelligence.

Friday, April 27, 2018

Day I: Digital (D)Effects. Living Amongst Intelligent Machines

10:00 am

– 10:10 am

Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter Weibel

 

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

Welcome Note

10:10 am

– 10:20 am                                                                  

Dr. Frank Mentrup

 

Lord Mayor, City of Karlsruhe

Welcome Note

10:20 am

– 10:50 am

Prof. David M. Berry

 

Sussex Humanities Lab, Centre for Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, Brighton

»Automating Thought: Infrasomatization and the Exospherical Technical System«

10:50 am

– 11:20 am

Prof. Anna Munster

 

National Institute for Experimental Arts, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney

»From Aggregate to Regime: Models for Training Images«

11:20 am

– 11:35 am

Break

 

11:35 am

– 12:05 pm 

 

Dr. Luciana Parisi

 

Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London

»Automation, Instrumentality and Critique.«

12:05 pm

– 12:35 pm

Dr. Robert Seyfert

 

Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg Essen; Faculty of Cultural Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)  

»New Socio-technical Relations in Algorithmic Cultures«

12:35 pm

– 1:05 pm

Dr. Beatrice Fazi

 

Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex, Brighton

»Machine Learning and the Image of Algorithmic Thought«

1:05 pm

– 2:00 pm

Lunch Break

 

2:05 pm

– 2:15 pm

Yasemin Keskintepe

 

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

Welcome Note

2:15 pm

– 2:45 pm

Dr. Manuela Lenzen

 

Freelance science journalist and non-fiction author

Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University

»The new Summer of Artificial Intelligence«

2:45 pm

– 3:15 pm

Dr. Jan Niehues

 

Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR), Interactive Systems Lab (ISL), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

»Machine Translation Using Neural Networks«

3:15 pm

– 3:45 pm

Dr. Nikolaos Aletras

 

Information School, The University of Sheffield

»Predicting Judicial Decisions with Artificial Intelligence«

3:45 pm

– 4:00 pm

Break

 

4:00 pm

– 4:30 pm

M.Sc. Jens Ziehn

 

Systems for Measurement, Control and Diagnosis (MRD), Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB), Karlsruhe

»The Road to Fully-Automated Driving«

4:30 pm

– 5:00 pm

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Beyerer
 

Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB); / Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR), Interactive Systems Lab (ISL), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

»Intelligent Video Surveillance, Data Protection and Privacy«

5:00 pm

– 6:00 pm

Dr. Nikolaos Aletras

 

Prof. David M. Berry

 

Dr. Robert Seyfert

 

Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter Weibel

 

moderator:

Dr. Manuela Lenzen

Panel Discussion

 

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Day II: The View of the Machine. Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision

10:00 am

– 10:10 am

Margit Rosen

 

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

Welcome Note

10:10 am

– 10:40 am

M. Sc. Paul F. Jäger 

 

German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg

»Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis«

10:40 am

– 11:10 am

Prof. Dr. Thomas Brox

 

Computer Vision Group

Institute of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

»Achievements and Limitations of Deep Learning«

11:10 am

– 11:40 am

Anna Ridler

 

Artist, London

»The Possibilities of Machine Learning in a Creative Practise«

11:40 am

– 11:55  am

Break

 

11:55 am

– 12:25 pm

M.Sc. M.Sc. Marc Mengler

 

Understand.ai, Karlsruhe

»Data defines Deep Learning–Implications for Autonomous Driving«

12:25 pm

– 12:55 pm

Mario Klingemann

 

Artist, Munich

»Instruments of Creation«

1:00 pm

– 2:00 pm

Lunch break

 

2:00 pm

– 2:30 pm

Sebastian Schmieg

 

Artist, Berlin

»Humans as Software Extensions«

2:30 pm

– 3:00 pm

Dr. Mario Fritz

 

Computer Vision and Multimodal Computing, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken

»The Bright and Dark Side of Computer Vision: Latest Advances and Implications on Privacy«

3:00 pm

– 3:30 pm

Prof. Dr. Björn Ommer

 

Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI) & Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University

 

»The Art of Seeing«

3:30 pm

– 4:15 pm

Guided tour thorugh the exhibition »Open Codes. Living in Digital Worlds«

 

4:15 pm

– 4:45 pm

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Stiefelhagen

 

Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction Lab (CV:HCI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

»Assistive Technology using Computer Vision - Reducing Barriers for the Visually Impaired«

4:45 pm

– 5:15 pm

Christian Hirth & Frederik Böhm

 

The Chainless (DeepVA), Freiburg

»DeepVA–AI as an Instrument for Obtaining Information from Image and Video Data«

5:15 pm

– 5:45 pm

Karen Palmer

 

Artist, London / New York

»RIOT. The Film that Watches You Back«

5:45 pm

– 6:00  pm

Margit Rosen

 

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

End of the Conference