2024
Merzmensch, AI, and Japan
December 2024
W3MUC Forum / Munich
W3MUC, the co-organizators of Festival of the Future in Munich invited me to present my Japan-themed works (2020 - now). In my series, AI is co-imagining with me an alternative Japan; my memories about my countless travels to this beautiful country are mixed with my - and the machine's subconscious.
Merzmensch, AI, and Japan
December 2024
W3MUC Forum / Munich
W3MUC, the co-organizators of Festival of the Future in Munich invited me to present my Japan-themed works (2020 - now). In my series, AI is co-imagining with me an alternative Japan; my memories about my countless travels to this beautiful country are mixed with my - and the machine's subconscious.
"It's a New Day"
November 2024
University Klagenfurt / Klagenfurt
I took part as a keynote speaker in a conference called "Aesthetics of Digital Image Synthesis" at Universität Klagenfurt, with inspiring contributions by Lev Manovich, Anna Schober, Schober de Graaf, Jacob Birken, and many other brilliant participants. Very important that the contents and aesthetics of generative media are explored.
Künstliche Intelligenz und die Essenz des Designens
November 2024
Verband für Ausstellungsgestaltung e.V. (VERA) / Hamburg
A multidisciplinary forum gathered designers, philosophers, art and law scientists and artists. I introduced GenAI in context of contemporary culture. We've spoken at a podium discussion about benifits and dangers of AI.
My favourite accidents with AI
#LunchLab der Kulturbotschaft, online
August 2024
Together with artist Maren Burghard we've discussed the precious fails during creative work with AI - and their inspirational power.
Der KI-Podcast
ARD, Radio / Online
August 2024
Für ARD-Programm "Der KI-Podcast" (mit Gregor Schmalzried und Fritz Espenlaub) haben wir mit Philosophin Dorothea Winter über KI und Kunst gesprochen. Die Kunst ist menschlich. Auch #KIKunst.
Wie verändert KI die Bildende Kunst?
BR2: Perspektivwechsel, Radio broadcast
October 2024
Kunst und KI? Wird Kulturbetrieb neu geschrieben? Was bedeutet KI für die Kulturentwicklung? Diese Themen werde ich mit Dr. Francis Hunger (ADBK, bei Prof. Hito Steyerl), Tina Lorenz (ZKM, virtuell) und Andrea Mühlberger (Bayern 2) diskutieren.
Festival of the Future / Festival der Zukunft 2024
Deutsches Museum, Munich
June 2024
During Festival of the Future in Deutsches Museum, Munich, I organized a workshop about history of Generative Art and AI, and took part at podiums discussion "prompt vs. brush?" with multimedia artists Betty Mü, Esther Feen Reinhardt and Anna Majha Speiss. Also my video poem "Neon Seclusion" was premiered during the festival.
Waterkant 2024
Festival Waterkant, Kiel
June 2023
On the Waterkant festival 2024 I've offered a workshop "Past and Future of AI Content Creation", a multimedia exhibition of my series, and took part on AI talk "Why AI and Art need humans".
Big Data & AI World Frankfurt with BARC
BIG DATA & AI at Frankfurt Fair, Frankfurt am Main
May 2024
I was fortunate to participate in Big Data & AI World Frankfurt with BARC and reconnect with other Z by HP ambassadors Ekaterina Butyugina, PhD and Nik Dorndorf. We spoke a lot with them and all the visitors about Generative AI and new cultural developments empowered by hardware and software. I'm feeling very inspired and write a blog about AI Studio by HP.
KI und die Kunst
Traklhaus, Salzburg
April 2024
The art space Traklhaus in Salzburg was a center of creative collaboration and AI-driven exhibition curated by Stephanie Meisl and David Fisslthaler. During the vernissage I hold a keynote, a lecture on history of AI art (with moderation of Artist Talks) , and a workshop "Art and Creativity".
Fulbright Italy Talk on GenAI
University Zeta Luiss, online
March 2024
It was an honour for me to speak about benefits and dangers of GenAI at @FulbrightIT Seminar on Media Literacy for US grantees and @UniLUISS students of the Master in Multimedia Journalism.
AI-Experiment
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) , Nürnberg
March 2024
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Egger (Cognitive Computer Vision) maintain together with artist Hans Furer an experiment of creative collaboration between humans and machines. During the accompanying interdisciplenary symposium we discussed the role of an Artist in the Age of AI.
Berliner Ensemble: Der Geist in der Maschine
Berliner Ensemble, Berlin
February 2024
Berliner Ensemble organized AI event "AI, Democracy and Nerds". I took part in a podium discussion about art, GenAI, sustainability and the meaning of AI impact on the global society.
Finisage: New Realities
Museum for Communication, Nürnberg
January 2024
During the finisage of the exhibition "New Realities" I held a lecture about new developments in the GenAI, and took part on podium discussion with artists and researchers.
SWR: Vollbild
January 2024
German Broadcast SWR/ TV
Together with investivative journalist Filippa von Stackelberg we've spoken about a serious topic: criminal misuse of AI in pornography.
2023
How real is Artificial Art?
ImmersiveX Stage, VR
November 2023
Together with pioneers of AI-driven digital art, Stephanie Meisl and Julian van Dieken, we have spoken about the history and perspectives of AI's use in art. The entire session was part of the international conference, The Next Reality, and was organized by vm-people in the Virtual Space
AI, Art and Creativity
Goethe University, Frankfurt
October 2023
Since 2023 I began my lectures about Generative Artificial Intelligence at Goethe University with following topics:
- The history of Generative Art and GenAI
- Prompt Design in LLMs
- Creating visual art with GenAI
Museum für Kommunikation, Nürnberg
Museum for Communication, Nürnberg
October 2023
During "Long Night of Sciences", organized by Nürnberg City, I had a reading from my book "KI-KUNST" and telling about the history of Generative Art and AI.
Galerie Greulich: Podium discussion
Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt am Main
October 2023
During my tour with published book KI-KUNST I had an exhibition of my series "MERZmory" and podium discussion about generative AI and creativity.
East Grape: Reading
East Grape, Frankfurt am Main
October 2023
During my tour with published book KI-KUNST I had a reading in a cultural center and cafe "East Grape"
DB Schenker: Diversity Week
DB Schenker internal, online
October 2023
During a global "Diversity Week" we had together with my colleague Paula Amiama a talk "Infinite Expressions: Enhancing Creativity through Generative AI"
Frankfurt Book-Fair: Merzmensch im Gespräch
Frankfurt Book-Fair, Frankfurt am Main
October 2023
Talk and presentation about Generative AI on the occasion of publishing my book "KI-KUNST".
BendMakeChange: Künstliche Kreativität
Computermuseum DigitalretroPark, Offenbach
September 2023
Im Rahmen des Festivals BendMakeChange im DigitalRetroPark (Computermuseum Offenbach) habe ich einen Workshop über die Kreative Praktiken mit Künstlerischen Intelligenz gehalten
KI-KUNST: Der Antonyme Salon
Der Antonyme Salon, Berlin
September 2023
'We had discussions with artists, writers and researchers - Annika von Taube, Olaf Schirm, Ivo Wessel, Nils Pooker and me - in Berliner galery "Der Antonyme Salon" (Galerist Anton Henning) during my presentation and reading from "KI-KUNST".
KI-KUNST: 20 Bänder auf der Volksbühne, Berlin
Volksbühne, Berlin
September 2023
Authors of the book series "Digitale Bildkulturen" discussed the current paradigm change in visual and cultural dimensions of human history. I was speaking about my book "KI-KUNST"
#KIKUNST: Frühe KI-Programme und ihre Anwendung
September 2023
Wagenbach Verlag / Online
Together with publisher of by book "KI-Kunst" Wolfgang Ulrich we have spoken about earlier Generative AI models. I have shown them in action - you also can see the legendary "Latent Space Browser" (not available anymore).
"Angewandte Data Science":Presentation + Discussion
August 2023
Darmstadt Data Science / Online
Authors of "Angewandte Data Science" presented their chapters from this anthology. I spoke about my part "Am Anfang war der Prompt"
Festival of the Future 2023
July 2023
Deutsches Museum / Munich
As last year, I was present on the Festival of the Future with my workshop "AI as a creative engine" and an exhibition of my works.
3DEXCITE Live: The Generative AI Explosion
June 2023
3DEXCITE live / Munich
3D Experience Lab by Dessault Systèmes organizes yearly discussion panel about new technologies and its impact on society, industry, culture. This time we will speak about Generative AI.
Princeton University: Creative work with AI
October 2023
Princeton University / Princeton
For the Creative Lab on Princenton University, led by Professor Gianni Riotta I've hold a lecture about Generative AI and its multimodal and multimedia possibilities.
Goethe University: Practical lecture
May 2023
Goethe University / Frankfurt am Main
Vom Medien-Hiwi zum Commander Data: Wie Leidenschaften und KI die Karriere formen. So heisst mein Praxisvortrag in Rahmen des Qualifizierungsprogramms für Uni-Absolventen vom Career-Service Center der Goethe Universität.
Hier erzähle ich über meine berufliche, akademische und kreative Erfahrungen der letzten 23 Jahre.
AI Hub Frankfurt: AI Talent Night 2023
May 2023
AI-HUB, Family Montez / Frankfurt am Main
AI Hub Frankfurt is an indisciplinary network, connecting researchers, culture, industry, economy, politics together under the sign of AI.
UAI Talent Night is their format for bringing all members, but broad society together. In numerous presentations, experts from research companies, but also from the Bundestag, Google, Microsoft share their experiences, insights, ideas with the audience.
Together with Ratata Gallery I was invited to present our AI art and experiments, to explain how does it work, to demonstrate, what AI can do for artists.
Goethe-University: Künstliche Intelligenz, Kunst und Kreativität
May 2023
Goethe-University / Frankfurt am Main
I gave a 2-day workshop at Goethe University as part of the key skills acquisition program for students.
Der Gallery Talk: KI und Kunst
February 2023
Gallery Greulich / Frankfurt am Main
The discussion about AI, Art, and Creativity in the Greulich Gallery was a bliss - great discussion partners and brilliant contributions from auditory. I'm more obsessed with speaking about AI and creativity now. Thank you, Andreas Greulich, Adi Phil Coufal and Ekaterina Leo!
1E9: Künstliche Intelligenz in der Kunst – ja, nein, vielleicht?
February 2023
1E9
Discussion about AI and its impact on culture and art for German Digital Community 1E9 (German WIRED).
Movie making with AI
February 2023
Italian Journalist Institute Zeta Luiss
For Journalist Institute Zeta Luiss, I held a workshop "Movie Making with AI", explaining different approaches - beginning with Generative Adversarial Networks till Diffusion models.
Critical Topics: AI Images
Artist and researcher Eryk Salvaggio provides on Bradley University an Undergraduate Class "Critical Topics: AI Images". I present in the Class 21 as an Artist Talk my art and creative approach.
BR24 | Wie künstliche Intelligenz die Kunstwelt revolutioniert
Januar 2023
German radio broadcast Bayerischer Rundfunk
Entire Broadcast about AI, creativity, Art, gaming etc. is published by German Sender Bayerischer Rundfunk: https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/radioreportage/dall-e-co-wie-kuenstliche-intelligenz-die-kunstwelt-revolutioniert/1929153.
Journalist Christian Schiffer speaks with game makers, stabil diffusion researchers, artists (me among of them) about the ways how AI reshapes our culture.
2022
AI, Art, and Creativity (in German)
December 2022
Greman radio broadcast DeutschlandFunk
A featurette for Bayerischer Rundfunk by Christian Schiffer. An interview with Sabine @Bleeptrack Wieluch, Albert Bozesan and me about new ways for creativity, enabled for us by different AI approaches.
Deutschlandfunk: Kreativität auf Knopfdruck
December 2022
Gereman radio broadcast DeutschlandFunk
"Creativity at the push of a button" is the title of radio discussion between Ramona Westhof, Johannes Kuhn and me. We are speaking about cultural impact and technological developments, copyright and human-machine collaboration in the broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur. (In German)
Aufgeheizt&Zugespitzt (ARD ONE)
November 2022
Gereman television ARD ONE
For the broadcast of German Channel ARD ONE "Aufgeheizt&zugespitzt" I was interviewed about my view on AI art, creativity, and human-machine collaboration. The program was aired on the 22nd of November 2022.
Darmstadt Data Science: Prompt Design
October 2022
Data Science Meetup (video conferencing)
I am talking for German Darmstadt Data Science about DALL-E 2 and other Diffusion models:
- About history of generative AI
- How does Gen AI work
- GANs versus Diffusion Model
- Basics of Prompt Design
- Interactive Prompt Design session with audience
hr_iNFO: Wie KI-Bilder die Kunstwelt aufmischen
September 2022
Radio broadcast by HR (Hessischer Rundfunk)
In this radio broadcast I tell about impact of AI on art world (German)
#heiseshow: Tod der Kunst?
September 2022
Videocast by Heise
Silke Hahn, Mratin Holland and me are discussing in this broadcast of German magazine and publisher #heise about Possibilities, Perspectives, Danger and Approaches of AI use in the culture and art.
Festival der Zukunft / The Festival of the Future 2022
July 2022
Festival der Zukunft, Munich, Deutsches Museum
1e9 is “Denkfabrik für die Zukunft”: a thought factory of the future. Brought to life by Wolfgang Kerler (chef editor of German Wired), this digital platform is the melting pot of ideas, concepts, future visions from all areas of human life. Culture, technology, science, art are meeting in one place — with huge community.
In this event, I was present with two activities:
* My talk about AI and Creativity
* My exhibition of AI art.
Waterkant '22
June 2022
Waterkant Festival, Kiel
On the 16th-17th of June, there was a Digital Summit "Waterkant Festival" in Kiel, Germany. Voices from culture, science, education and industry came together to discuss new approaches and ways to enhance society and the world. I took part in it with my Workshop about AI Art and NFT.
Council for the United States and Italy: A New World Coming
June 2022
Council for the United States and Italy, Online
The Council for the United States and Italy is an independent, private, non-profit bilateral organization. The Council promotes relations between Italy and the United States and brings together industry and finance executives, economists, professionals, scientists, communications and media representatives, and Italian and American scholars, through high-level initiatives in Italy and the USA.
I took part in the Council's workshop "A New World Coming" with my talk about Generative AI and its impact on cultur and media.
State of Interim
May 2022
Video conference.
During the international Symposium "State of Interim" (organized by the Art Studio Kaeur), I shared my experiences with generative models for artists: visual, textual, and musical approaches since 2015 till today.
ZWST: Krypto-Währungen, Künstliche Intelligenz
June 2022
Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany (ZWST)
I gave two talks about Crypto and AI+creativity:
- Was sind Kryptowährungen? - Chancen, Risiken und Prognosen einfach erklärt
- Künstliche Intelligenz - Einblicke in die Technologie der Zukunft
Click on the links above to see recordings (in German)
Writing with AI - Merzmensch, Mike Ford, and Sasha Stiles
January 2022
Podcast CW talks
What does it mean to write with AI? What does the process look like? How do you unleash the creativity of a machine? What’s the role of the writer?
Sasha Stiles, Mike Ford and me are discussing human-machine creative collaboration.
2021 and before
Stanislaw Lem Festival
October 2021
As part of the interdisciplinary Stanisław Lem Festival (programme as PDF), I spoke about the creative use of AI in poetry:
on 29th of October 2021:
- Kann KI Gedichte schreiben? Mit Beispielen.
DADA.art and Merzmensch
March 2021
DADA.art is an international artist collective exploring Dadaism, modern avantgarde, machine learning and crypto art. In series of conversations we discuss new possibilities for creatives in context of new (or meanwhile not new anymore) technologies.
X-Talk: Do Androids Dream of Electric Poems?
Waterkant '21: Exhibition and Workshop
Summer 2021
Waterkant Festival, Kiel
Waterkant is an international Festival and Forum for innovative projects, new technologies and education.
I took part on this festival with
- Workshop about AI and creativity
- Exhibition of my AI-driven video art.
KI für Kids
Summer 2020
Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt am Main
Workshop about GenAI with interactive explorations of AI-driven models for text, images and music generation.
Social Media and University
February 2018
WebMonday, Frankfurt am Main
Back to my work at Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, we presented our Social Media strategy in the context of WebMonday, an established monthly media event in Frankfurt.