Pleased to announce our next Digital Aesthetics event with Katherine Behar! Abstract and bio below; Zoom link here. Hope to see many of you all there, either in-person or online.

Abstract:

“Isn’t Artisanal Intelligence K(NOT) AI?” unfolds a new theory of artisanal intelligence. Contextualized in Behar’s artistic practice, which concerns gender, race, class, and labor in digital culture, and specifically her current project, Inside Outsourcing, which takes inspiration from the un-automatability of basket-weaving, this lecture ties together neural networks and tacit knowledge to weigh the valuation of intelligences.

This event is generously co-sponsored by the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) and Fiber Optics: Materials and Media, a Stanford Humanities Center Research Workshop. 

Bio:

Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist who studies contemporary digital culture through feminism and materialism. She is Professor of New Media Arts at Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY.