Artist Talk / Eryk Salvaggio: Embodied Generativity: Critical AI, Art & the Body

May 13, 6:30pm, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK)

The interface of generative AI presents a passive mode of media production, modeled after the submission of a ticket to a tech stack, or a request for a chatbot helpdesk. What other modes of interaction might artists engage with to get at these tools beyond the keyboard? In a presentation of selected works, the artist, theorist and AI researcher Eryk Salvaggio explores positions, gestures and attitudes toward AI that reflect its brittle comprehension of creative logic and the world at large. This talk will present works and propose novel workflows that challenge ideas of "generativity" by moving it from the visual senses to the body, examining video, performance, dance, and puppetry.

In cooperation with the DIZH-Bridge Professorship for Digital Cultures and Arts with the Department Fine Arts (DFA) at ZHdK. The event will be held in English. Venue: Raum 6.K04 / Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8031 Zürich.

A closed event for faculty will also be held from 12:30 to 2pm.