Friday, 24 May, 2024

9:00 Registration 

9:30- 10:45  Opening Session
Room 219
Keynote lecture:
​“Do Machines Deep Dream of Automated Artists?”
Andrés Burbano
Moderators: Luis D. Rivero Moreno and Helena Barranha

10:45 - 11:15 – Coffee break

11:15 - 13:00 Session 1: Questioning the Nature of Art in the Age of AI
Room 219
Moderator: ​Joana Simões Henriques
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“AI Art and the Productive Potential of Opacity”
Jasmin Pfefferkorn

​“Emergence of Human-Machine Co-creativity? Shifting from ‘AI Art’ Towards Issues in AI Aesthetics”
Alexander Matthias Gerner

“Quantum Perspectives in Art and New Media: Towards Temporal Difference”
Yana Naidenov

​“Latent Space: How Far is Far Away?”
Rodrigo Gomes

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 16:00 Parallel Sessions 2a and 2b

​Session 2a
History and Archaeology of New Media Art
Room 219
Moderator: Margarida Brito Alves
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“Automation in Visual Arts (around 1960): Some Dilemmas with a Special View to Control”
Michael Rottmann
 
“From BBSes to DAOs - What Can We Learn from Early 1990s Digital Utopianism for Artist Organizations Today?”
Anna-Lisa Scherfose
 
“The Venice Biennale 2022 and the Let’s get Digital Exhibition in Florence. The New Paradigms and Challenges of Digital Art. Will We Be Able to Tell the Right Story?”
Filomena Serra

“Making up for Lost Ground and the Exhibition Net Art in the Bermuda Triangle… at CAAA in Guimarães”
Sofia Ponte and Maria Luís Neiva

​Session 2b
Artistic Research, Copyright and Preservation​
Room SE1
Moderator: Maria Teresa Cruz
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“Creativity and Copyright in a World of AI-Generated Images”
Adelaide Rossi
 
“Future Us: Speculative (Re)positionings Regarding AI Literacy in Artistic Training and Research”
Margarida Alves,  Henrique Cabrita and Helena Elias
 
“Dialogues on the Preventive Conservation of the artwork _DATA|ergo sum|RELOADED by Ana Marcos”
Irene Vivas Márquez and Keitty de Oliveira Silva
 
“Documenting Creative Processes in Generative Art. An Approach through Dario Lanza’s Work”
Esther Moñivas Mayor and Darío Lanza Vidal

​16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00 Parallel Sessions 3a and 3b
​Session 3a
Automated Creativity and AI Aesthetics
Room 219
Moderator: Sofia Ponte

“The Aura in Contemporaneity: Destruction or Evolution?”
Rita Cêpa

“Technologisation of Art or Artisation of Technology? – Discussing AI Art in the Museal Context”
Franziska Garms
 
“Generative AI and the Fear of Images — Looking for Clues about the Future of Artificial Intelligence in Iconophobic Reactions to Lithography and Desktop Publishing”
Mário Moura

“Family Portrait[s]: ‘Wreading’ the Island through António Aragão”
Diogo Marques and Inês Cardoso
Session 3b
Extended Reality and Posthuman Spaces​
Room SE1
Moderator: Carlos Pimenta
 
“CTRL+Z : On Language, Meaning and Generative Algorithms in Architectural Design”
Nathalie Kerschen
 
“Refiguring the Game Engine as a Speculative Tool: Exploring More-than-human Narratives in Volumetric Spaces”
Teodora Sinziana Alata
 
“Supertopia: Viscous Realities and Material Reconfigurations”
Ana Teresa Vicente and Nikolas Gomes
 
“Dancing in Virtual Reality Exploring the Interplay of Material and Virtual Bodies”
Cecília de Lima, Sílvia Pinto Coelho and Rui Filipe Antunes

18:00 - 18:15 Closing Remarks
Room 219

Coffee breaks are included in the registration fee. Lunch is at the expense of each participant.

Saturday, 25 May, 2024

10:00 - 11:30 Visit to the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (maat) 
"Technology – Fuel to Art", with Joana Simões Henriques

Meeting point: entrance of the main gallery: https://maat.pt/en/planear-visita

This guided tour is included in the registration fee.