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, entiteled: Ningyō and Automata.

Starting the discussion with some entangled technological and cultural developments in Mid-Europe and Japan on the threshold of 17.th to the 18.th century, the lecture was carving out the different cultural concepts that both were expressed through claims on life-like authenticity. With those historical intercultural trajectories the contemporary narrations and aestetics of AI was 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