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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 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.
Decolonising Cultural Heritage: State of the Art, Methodologies, and Practices
Conference: May 5–6, 2025 @ University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy
Keynote Speaker
The keynote lecture, Reclaiming Decolonialization! Heritage, Geopolitics, Resistance, reframes cultural heritage as a site of struggle—of theory, practice, archive, and ultimately, liberation. It explores how heritage can be rethought through transnational and intersectional solidarities, and how digital media aesthetics can act not merely as tools of transmission but as active forces of reclamation. Drawing on diverse examples from the Global South, transcultural and diasporic art and culture-making, as well as movements of resistance such as strikes, boycotts, and protests at cultural institutions, heritage sites, and museums, the lecture traces historical and contemporary trajectories of counter-memory, cultural survival, and radical world-building.
Planetary Design Reclaiming Futures
Conference: 23–26 October, 2024 @ ICI Berlin
Co-organizer with Claudia Mareis, Kenny Cupers, Orit Halpern, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Nadia Christidi, Sudipto Basu, Anke Gründel, Tania Messell
The conference Planetary Design: Reclaiming Futures brings together critical thinking and doing around the role of design in making, unmaking and remaking worlds. Starting from the intersection of design, infrastructure, and the planetary environment, it offers a generative platform open to artists, academics, and activists for rethinking design’s role in producing the present and for developing alternative planetary futures. Reflecting on how design makes worlds in the 21st century requires an interdisciplinary effort that addresses it as an intersectional, multi-faceted phenomenon. Design becomes not only an object of empirical study but also a conceptual lens that might open up new ways of articulating transdisciplinary critique. Thus, this gathering is at once looking ahead while also reckoning with inherited and continuing injustices that still haunt collective planetary futures.
The conference marks the culmination of Governing Through Design, a collaborative research project supported by a Sinergia Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Theorization and the Global South: Berlin Notes
Book Presentation and Discussion: 16 May 2024 @ ICI Berlin
Co-editor/presenter with Iracema Dulley
Critiquing the colonialist, imperialist, and Eurocentric perspectives that have historically impacted knowledge production about the so-called Global South, the discussion will delve into a reflection on the historical and geopolitical inequalities that have shaped theorization. The recently published volume, Displacing Theory Through the Global South, a collection of essays by Berlin-based scholars, edited by Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen, proposes a commitment to expanding notions of universality, making theorization not only relevant and generative, but ultimately, transformative.
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