Unpacking Generativity: Epistemology, Politics, and Aesthetics of Generative AI Systems
Symposium: October 7, 2025 @ TU Dresden
Moderator, Planerium Session
The symposium Unpacking Generativity invites critical engagement with generative AI systems from interdisciplinary perspectives. Focusing on three thematic blocks—Epistemology, Politics, and Aesthetics—the event aims to explore the societal impact and symbolic power of generative AI beyond technical definitions, situating it within broader knowledge systems, political economies, and visual cultures.
The symposium is organized by Niklas Egberts, Jasmin Höning, and Nelly Saibel as part of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden.
Performing Transformation: Shifting Landscapes in Art, Science, and Technology
Conference: September 29–30, 2025 @ TU Dresden
Co-organizer with Robert Fischer, Pauline Hohn, Clara Jacobi, Gwendolin Kremer, Lucas von Ramin
Performing Transformation—a two-day event at TU Dresden that explores how knowledge is produced, embodied, and contested at the intersections of art, science, and technology in times of rapid societal change.
The conference aims to bring together researchers, artists, and practitioners to examine performative and collaborative research practices in the context of economic, political, cultural, ecological, and technological transformations. We invite participants to explore how the performativity and performance of knowledges—through scientific experiments, artistic interventions, or collaborative research—are enacted across disciplinary, institutional, and social boundaries.
The conference is organized by the established infrastructures for artistic research at TU Dresden – a collaboration between the SchauflerLab@TU Dresden, TUDiSC, the Interactive Science Lab, the Emerging Field Societal Change and S+T+ARTS Ec(h)o, artistic residency program hosted by the Office for Academic Heritage (Kustodie). The conference is also supported in part by the Walter De Gruyter Foundation.
Full program is available here.