Ningyō and Automata – Oliver invited to lecture at the Autrian Cultural Forum Warsaw

Oliver shared observations on the development of artificial agents by means of an intercultural narration on the replica of human beings, in the context of the european “More Than Human” project.

Entitled “Ningyō and Automata”, the observation began by examining intertwined technological and cultural developments in Central Europe and Japan at the threshold of the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries. The lecture highlighted the distinct cultural concepts articulated in both contexts through claims to life-like authenticity. Against the backdrop of these historical intercultural trajectories, contemporary narratives and aesthetics of artificial intelligence were then discussed.

Ningyō and pupeteers at Japanese Bunraku (c) cowardlion/Shutterstock.com – The Writer by Jacques de Vaucanson (c) H. Bruderer.
Oliver moderated by media artist Klaudiusz Slusarczyk.
Oliver lecturing on artificial agents (c) José Antonio Arias Keco

https://austria.org.pl/wydarzenia/lecture-ningyo-and-automata-of-oliver-schurer-phd