Human Entities 2017 Conversa 4: Mark Coeckelbergh

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Human Entities: a cultura na era da inteligência artificial – 2ª edição 2017    
4ª feira, 22 novembro, 2017, 18.30 – 20.30
Última conversa desta edição. 
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Podem os agentes artificiais criar arte?
Para um pensamento sobre as performances humano/não-humano
Mark Coeckelbergh (BE/AT)
Universidade de Viena

Muitas das atuais visões sobre o futuro da inteligência artificial focam-se ora em cenários distópicos e risco existencial, ora num acrítico sonho de novas formas de melhoria dos humanos, como por exemplo em algumas versões do trans-humanismo. Contudo, estas abordagens não nos ajudam a lidar com os desafios que os agentes artificiais levantam num futuro próximo. Tendem também a excluir a reflexão sobre a dimensão social e cultural do tema, incluindo uma mais construtiva e criativa reflexão sobre as formas como humanos e agentes artificiais podem colaborar e co-criar.

Nesta apresentação, Mark Coeckelbergh discute se os agentes artificiais podem criar arte e propõe uma abordagem à questão que é cultural, social e com um toque moderadamente pós-humanista.

Infuenciado por Wittgenstein, Pickering, e Latour, argumenta que artefactos criados e utilizados por humanos e agentes artificiais ganham o seu significado a partir do todo sociocultural onde se inserem pois co-constituem estas interacções e formas de vida, que a nossa forma de vida sempre envolveu humanos e não-humanos, e que a questão da criatividade de agentes artificiais deve ser reformulada como a questão do sentido cultural e das possibilidades artísticas das performances humanos/não-humanos – ainda que quando comparado com agentes artificiais os humanos continuem a ser os únicos performers e espectadores num sentido estrito devido à sua subjectividade e corporalização.

Mark Coeckelbergh
Mark Coeckelbergh é Professor de Filosofia dos Media e Tecnologia no Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade de Viena, Áustria e Professor part-time de Tecnologia e Responsabilidade Social no Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, Universidade De Montfort, Reino Unido. É Presidente da Society for Philosophy and Technology. Anteriormente leccionou na Universidade de Twente e foi Director-Geral do 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology. Os seus livros incluem Using Words and Things (Routledge 2017), New Romantic Cyborgs (MIT 2017), Money Machines (Ashgate 2015), Environmental Skill (Routledge 2015), Human Being @ Risk (Springer 2013), Growing Moral Relations (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), e numerosos artigos na área da filosofia da tecnologia em particular na filosofia da robótica e ICT, linguagem e tecnologia, e criatividade das máquinas. Explora activamente questões relacionadas com a tecnologia através de colaborações com artistas e curadores.

Links:
https://coeckelbergh.wordpress.com
https://twitter.com/MCoeckelbergh 

Este evento está integrado no ciclo:
Human Entities: a cultura na era da inteligência artificial
Ciclo de conversas outubro – novembro 2017

Ver programa: https://goo.gl/G1PZTh 
http://www.cada1.net/works/human-entities-culture-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-2nd-edition-2017/ 

Organização CADA em parceria com a Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa

Human Entities é financiado pela Direção-Geral das Artes, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa e NOVA LINCS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

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Human Entities: culture in the age of artificial intelligence – 2nd edition 2017
Talk 4 – Mark Coeckelbergh
Wednesday 22 Novemberr, 2017, 18.30 - 20.30
Final talk in the 2017 programme. 
Free entry registration required

Can artificial agents create art?
Towards thinking about human/non-human performances
Mark Coeckelbergh (BE/AT)
University of Vienna

Many current visions about the future of artificial intelligence either focus on dystopian scenarios and existential risk, or uncritically dream of new ways of human enhancement, as for instance some versions of transhumanism. These ways of approaching the topic are unhelpful, however, in dealing with the challenges of artificial agents in the near future. They also tend to exclude reflection on the social and cultural dimension of the issue, including the more constructive and creative possibilities of how humans and artificial agents may collaborate and co-create.

In this talk, Mark Coeckelbergh discusses the question whether artificial agents can create art and proposes to give a cultural, social, and moderately posthumanist twist to the question.

Influenced by Wittgenstein, Pickering, and Latour, he argues that artefacts created and used by both humans and artificial agents get their meaning from the larger social-cultural wholes they are embedded in as much as they co-constitute these games and form of life, that our form of life has always been involving humans and non-humans, and that the question regarding the creativity of artificial agents should be reformulated as the question regarding the cultural meaning and artistic possibilities of human/non-human performances – even if compared to artificial agents humans remain the only performers and spectators in a strong sense due to their social subjectivity and embodiment.

Mark Coeckelbergh
Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria and part-time Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK. Currently he is the President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. Previously he was teaching at the University of Twente and was Managing Director of the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology. His publications include Using Words and Things (Routledge 2017), New Romantic Cyborgs (MIT 2017), Money Machines (Ashgate 2015), Environmental Skill (Routledge 2015), Human Being @ Risk (Springer 2013), Growing Moral Relations (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and numerous articles in the area of philosophy of technology, in particular philosophy of robotics and ICT, language and technology, and machine creativity. He also actively explores questions concerning technology through collaborations with artists and curators.

Links:
https://coeckelbergh.wordpress.com
https://twitter.com/MCoeckelbergh 

Venue:
Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Campo Santa Clara 142-145, 1100-474 Lisbon, Portugal
Wednesday 22  November, 2017, 18.30 - 20.30

This talk is part of:
Human Entities: culture in the age of artificial intelligence
Public talks October – November 2017

See programme: https://goo.gl/G1PZTh 
http://www.cada1.net/works/human-entities-culture-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-2nd-edition-2017/ 

Organised by CADA in partnership with em Lisbon Architecture Triennale

Human Entities is funded by Direção-Geral das Artes, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and  NOVA LINCS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.