Future/Current Talks & Events

“Ekphrasis and Artificial Intelligence: Text-to-Image Generation in Theory and Practice” chaired panel at CAA 2024 (Feb 14-17, 2024 in Chicago)

Past Talks & Events

“The Opticality Unconscious.” (paper presented at Generative Methods: AI as Collaborator in the Social Sciences and Humanities, hosted by MASSHINE at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 6–8, 2023)

“AI and Appropriation Art,” Invited speaker. Artechlaw Workshop, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, September 14–16, 2023.

“Unnatural Images.” Invited talk. Visual Trust Conference, University of Barcelona, Spain, June 12-14, 2023.

“AI and Visual Culture.” (event for book launch of Computational Formalism, 7 June 2023, Stockholm University)“AI and the Reification of Style.” Keynote. From Hype to Reality: Artificial Intelligence in the Study of Art and Culture. Zurich, April 20–21, 2023. 

“AI and Visual Studies.” Invited talk. Lund University, Department of ALM and Digital Culture, April 17, 2023

“AI and the Reification of Style.” Keynote. From Hype to Reality: Artificial Intelligence in the Study of Art and Culture. Zurich, April 20–21, 2023. 

“AI and Visual Studies.” Invited lecture. Lund University, Department of ALM and Digital Culture, April 17, 2023

“AI and Objectivity: The Role of Humanistic Self- Criticality in Digital Humanities Research.” (paper presented at the College Art Association annual conference, New York, New York, Feb. 15–19, 2015).

“The New Composites: On Photography and AI.” (paper presented at the workshop DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion: Reponses from Media Studies toward a ‘New Paradigm’ of Image Production, University of Tübingen, Germany, February 13–14, 2023).

“Beyond the Universal Art Dataset: Issues and Mitigations of Western Bias in Computational Art Analysis.” (paper presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision 2022, VISART VI workshop, Oct. 23-27, 2022).

“Locating the Digital in Art History.” (paper presented with Anna Näslund Dahlgren at Digital Art History IV, Institute of Art History, Zagreb, Croatia, Oct. 3-4, 2022).

“Decolonizing WikiArt: A Critical Analysis of Art Datasets in the Digital Humanities.” (paper at Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) International Conference 2022, University of Toronto, Sep. 30–Oct. 1, 2022).

“Unnatural Images: On AI-Generated ‘Photographs.’” (paper at AI and the Humanities conference, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Sep. 5–6, 2022).

“The Data Divide: Decolonizing Art Datasets for Digital Humanities Research.” (paper at DHARTI [Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations] conference “Digital Divides: Discontents, Debates and Discussions”, online, February 21–25, 2022).

“Computational Formalism.” (presentation at DIGARV [Digitisation and Accessibility of Cultural Heritage] Conference, Vår Gård, Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, December 20-21, 2022).

“Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning.” Styles Revisited: From Iconology to Digital Image Studies. 2021-2022 Artl@s/Visual Contagions Research Seminar. University of Geneva. Sep. 20, 2021.

Critical Digital Art History: Interface and Data Politics in Exhibitions, Museums and Collections

Association for Art History (AAH), April 14-17 2021 (double panel April 15)

“Made in Brooklyn: Artists, Hipsters, Makers, Gentrifiers”
Keynote speaker
Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, UK
M.Arch Research Conference
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

“What role can AI play in the creation and study of art?” (paper presented at “Artificial Creativity” conference, November 19-20, 2020. Malmö University, Sweden.

“From Brooklyn Works to Brooklynism?” Symposium
Keynote speaker
Sheffield University, UK
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Kelham Island Museum.

Exhibition at Between Bridges, Berlin:
Telecommunication
Matthew Billings, Amanda Wasielewski
8 June 2019 – 13 July 2019
Opening Friday 7 June, 7-9pm

Between Bridges
Keithstrasse 15
10787 Berlin 

“Artist as Influencer: ‘Disrupting’ the Art World,” April 7, 2019. Talks program at Supermarket – Stockholm Independent Art Fair, April 4-7, 2019. Stockholm, Sweden.

“We Have Decided Not to Decide: Anticipating the aesthetics of right-wing politics in the punk scene of Amsterdam in the early ‘80s” (paper presented at “Aftermath” conference, Krakow, Poland, October 25-26, 2018). 

“Under the Platform: Digital Economies in the Urban Everyday,” October 10, 2018. Urbanize Festival, Berlin, Germany, October 5-15, 2018.

“Historiographies of Digital Cultures,” Leuphana University, Lüneburg Summer School for Digital Cultures, September 16-19, 2018 in conjunction with “Digital Cultures: Knowledge/Culture/Technology” conference, September 19-22, 2018.

“Data and Monumentality: Architecture of Information” (paper presented at “Machines Will Watch Us Die” symposium, Manchester, UK, May 11, 2018).

“Are Memes Human?” (paper presented at “Les reproductions des images et des textes”, International Association of Word and Image Studies, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 10-14, 2017).

“Democracy of Things? New Materialisms and the Maker Movement” (paper presented at the College Art Association annual conference, New York, New York, February 15-18, 2017).

“Inequalities in Urban Space: A Comparative Perspective,” CUNY-Humboldt DAAD Summer School, June 6-18, 2016. Research project title, “How the Spree was won? The creative economy and cultural developments along the Spree in Berlin.”

“Lurking Within Reach: Stereoscopic Photomicrography in the 1860s” (paper presented at the College Art Association annual conference, New York, New York, February 11-14, 2015).

“Rebooting the Man Behind the Curtain: @Horse_ebooks and the Tangled Web of Automation and Anonymity” (paper presented at the 40th Annual Cleveland Symposium, Facing the Unknown: Anonymity in the History of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, October 24, 2014).

“Mobile Research Station 1.2,” Skulpturenpark Zentrum, Berlin, Art Residency, October 2009.