Oliver Schürer
Oliver Schürer, Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.,
is researcher, curator, editor and author as well as Senior Scientist and Deputy head at the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics, Vienna University of Technology. He has given numerous international lectures and did many publications mainly on technology and media in architecture. He has curated a variety of small and large conferences as well as series of events. Since 2008 he conducts experimental projects in the arts, as he develops theory by interlinking architecture, art, engineering and humanities intensely. In 2014 he founded the transdisciplinary group H.A.U.S., researching “Humanoid robots in Architecture and Urban Spaces.”
> upcoming: performance youAI-I3-01
A word and dance performance discussing the training of so-called artificial intelligence systems. Our behavior in digital media is being used to train AI’s ever more precisely, sometimes subtly, sometimes…
youAI – train, adapt, perform
dance-and-word performance @ imagetanz festival 2023 To generate data for training artificial intelligences, digital machines measure us humans. But with every click, like or selfie, Artificial Intelligence (AI) also trains…
H.A.U.S. transdisciplinary research, an Interview on some of it’s aspects
Oliver Schürer and Christoph Hubatschke in conversation with Michael Woels at Skug (german): “Is Machina understood as fraud?” “We prefer to read Machina as cunning as it does not foreground…
> upcoming: youAI – train, adapt, perform
a dance-and-word performance @ imagetanz festival 2023 To generate data for training artificial intelligences, digital machines measure us humans. But with every click, like or selfie, Artificial Intelligence (AI) also…
Radio program on “Invasive technification”, interviews done with Oliver and Christoph
Invited by the Austrian broadcasting studio Ö1 and moderator Katrin Mackowsky. Interviews and discussions on Gernot Böhmes concept of invasive technification (Invasive Technisierung) and quite some other aspects of Philosophy…
Roussel-Machine text-AI at Vienna Art Week Losing Control / MATERIAL SILENCING
MATERIAL SILENCING: DICHTES VERSTUMMEN Topoi of Posthumanism at Vienna Art Week. While in surrealism speakers took on the role of a medium between the imitation of nature and language symbolically…