ARTILACS! II – The Body-Mind Issue
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- Subject according curriculum
- ARTILACS
- Teachers
- Benjamin Helmer , Dr. Benjamin Sprick
- Scope
- Every Thursday, 12:00-13.30 Start is on 15.10.2025
- Room
- Keine Angabe
- Duration
- 1.5 Semesterwochenstunden
- Description
Can machines think? To what extent would they be 'intelligent'? What does 'intelligence' actually mean? And what cultural-historical burdens can be uncovered on the basis of this term?
In the seminar, we will continue to systematically develop the epistemological implications of the acronym ARTILACS (Artistic in Latent Creative Spaces). After dealing primarily with political aspects of artificial intelligence and algorithmic art structures in the first semester, this semester will focus on the philosophy of consciousness and with it current theories of artificial intelligence. One focus will be on the question of the extent to which the furor of supposedly 'intelligent' operating machine systems conceals a problem of 'Eurocentric' subjectification that is as old as it is metaphysically charged. Starting from this question, it might be possible to develop the first conceptual and scientifically advanced concepts of 'artistic intelligence'. Possible topics are
- Theories of intelligence and a philosophy of mind
- Transcultural concepts of thinking
- Current theories of intelligent technology
- Ecology of the mind
- Digital feudalism- Literature
Martin Heidegger: What does it mean to think? Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1963; David J. Chalmers, "Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?" Boston Review, August 9, 2023; Nick Bostrom, Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, London: Ideapress Publishing 2024; Brian Cantwell Smith, The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment, Boston: MIT Press 2019; Turing; John Mac Dowell, "6th Lecture - Vernunftbegabte und andere Lebewesen", in: ders, Geist und Welt, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2001, pp. 135-154; Hubert L. Dreyfus, What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence, New York: Harper Collins 1978; Michael Thompson, "Handeln und Zeit", in: Life and Action. Grundstrukturen des Praktischen und des praktischen Denkens [Life and Action. Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought, Harvard: Harvard University Press 2008], translated from the American by Matthias Haase, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2011, pp. 152-186; G.E.M. Anscombe, Absicht, translated from the English by Michael Schulte, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2011; Justin Joque, Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism, London: Versobooks 2022.
- Credits
- 2 Creditpoints
- Comments
Interest in the connection between theory and artistic practice, a presentation in the seminar and a written reflection are required to obtain credit points. Various approaches to theory work will be tested, including dialogic reading, clustering or AI-supported readings. Optional participation without the awarding of credit points is also possible and takes place after consultation with the lecturers.
Please register by 10.10.2025 at artilacs.hfmt-hamburg.de
- Modules
- Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge)