Andrés Burbano: |
"DO MACHINES DEEP DREAM OF AUTOMATED ARTISTS?"The arts provide a unique platform for delving into the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI), offering diverse perspectives on cognition, perception, creativity, and consciousness. Rather than examining the influence of AI on the arts, our focus will shift towards exploring the significant contributions made by the arts to contemporary conceptions and practices related to AI while also engaging in critical discussions about it. This presentation will unfold across three key areas. Firstly, we will dive into the historical significance of generative art within the broader landscape of media arts, building upon prior explorations in this domain. Secondly, we will examine how advancements in hardware technologies, driven by challenges posed by the media arts, particularly within realms such as video games, have facilitated the explosive growth of generative AI. Lastly, we will explore how the arts' emphasis on diversity and uniqueness guides us in uncovering a more comprehensive narrative surrounding the historical development and impact of AI internationally. In this presentation, we will pay particular attention to examples from Latin America and Oceania. |
Andrés Burbano is Professor in the Arts and Humanities School at the Open University of Catalunya, UOC (Barcelona, Spain), and Visiting Lecturer at Donau-Universität (Krems, Austria). He holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California at Santa Barbara (California, USA) and has developed part of his academic career in the School of Architecture and Design at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). Burbano works as a researcher, curator and interdisciplinary artist. His research projects focus on media history and media archaeology in Latin America and the Global South, 3D modeling of archaeological sites and also on the historical and cultural impact of computational technologies. Burbano has been appointed as ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Chair and is the author of the book Different Engines: Media technologies from Latin America published by Routledge in 2023.