Performative AI

Description

Art practice that takes a humanistic approach can be ignited by daily experiences of what we have designed for our lives. The interactions with ordinary objects and systems are inextricably linked to various aspects that have social, cultural, political, socioeconomic, and even ideological impacts. Simultaneously, “designing” can profoundly influence our identity and further shape who we become; thus, it elicits valuable questions on how to engage with technology for human experiences and society. This context invites us to explore critical yet imaginative design thinking that defamiliarizes human-technology relations. In doing so, three design scholars will expand the humanistic approach by de-constructing and re-relating with predominant notions of Performative AI in this panel: ”creating enactments by capitalizing on human sensitivities in a robotic system” (Dr. Marco Rozendaal), “opening more-than-human design by emphasizing the dynamic agencies of hybrid materialities” (Dr. Martin Murer), and  “charting an intellectual course through discourses connected to science and technology studies, (post)humanities, philosophy of technology, and design philosophy” (Dr. Heather Wiltse). These scholars will discuss their creative visions for "Performative AI" as an embodied phenomenon and conceptual asset that enriches art practice toward meaningful technological progress. 

Panelists

Martin Murer (Senior Scientist), Marco C. Rozendaal (Associate Professor), Heather Wiltse (Associate Professor).  

Convened by

YoungSuk Lee (UmArts). 

Image YoungSuk Lee

Profiles

Martin Murer (Austria) is a senior scientist at the Human-Computer Interaction division, at the department for Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces at University of Salzburg. Martin leads the embodied interaction research team, focusing on design driven research around tangible, embedded and embodied interaction. He holds a Master’s Degree in Information Design from University of Applied Sciences Graz and a PhD in Informatics from University of Salzburg. Since 2008, Martin was involved in multiple national and international research projects at the HCI division and its institutional predecessors, contributing his designs and research activities to industrial, automotive, and domestic applications. Aiming to bridge between various disciplines, Martin spearheads Studio 3, a lab dedicated to design-based and art-based research.

Marco C. Rozendaal (Netherlands) is Associate Professor of Interaction Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. With a background in interactive media, design, and engineering, his research straddles multiple disciplines, and combines practical, critical and methodological perspectives in his practise. Marco’s current work explores the design of new interaction styles and paradigms engendered by artificial intelligence. In his work, he is strongly committed to bringing design research to a broader audience through exhibitions and events. 

Heather Wiltse (Sweden) is Associate Professor in design with a focus on the data-intensive society at Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University. Her interdisciplinary research centers around the understanding and critique of the role of (digital) things in experience and society in ways that can inform design, and it sits at the intersection of design studies, philosophy of technology, and critical technology studies. Wiltse has published and/or presented refereed work in philosophy of technology, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction (HCI), and design research.