Abstract
Contemporary artists have been working with machine learning and artificial intelligence for almost as long as these concepts have existed, ever since scientists and engineers began researching and developing them. Today, we can even speak of an AI+Art movement, which can be divided into different categories. As AI brings together various societal fields, including science, technology and art, the roles of scientists and engineers are becoming more similar to those of artists, and vice versa. Artists are developing exciting new technologies with applications far beyond the field of art. They are also exploring ethical and critical issues surrounding artificial intelligence in creative, sensual and playful ways, thereby broadening our understanding of the subject. By asking new and different questions, artists offer alternative perspectives. The contemporary art system provides inspiration and enables us to create speculative visions and fictions for the future. In this way, artists reshape our perceptions of reality and generate new data and information for scientific research.
Date: 22 October 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 5:00- 6:15 pm
Venue: Arts Tech Lab (Room 4.35), 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
About the Speaker
Adrian Christopher Notz (*1977, Zurich)
is an independent curator and lecturer based in Zurich. He studied time-based media and Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Bremen and Theory of Art and Design at the Zurich University of the Arts. In 2024, he co-curated the AAA Experiments in Kunsthalle Zurich and in 2023 the Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara. He is currently lecturer at ETH Zurich, where he led the AI+Art Program at the ETH AI Center from 2021 to 2024. From 2020 to 2022, Notz served as curator at the Tichy Ocean Foundation in Zurich. Previously, he was the artistic director of Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich (2012–2019), following roles as co-director (2006–2012) and curatorial assistant (2004–2006). From 2010 to 2015, he also headed the Department of Fine Arts at the School of Design in St. Gallen. Throughout his career, Notz has organized and curated numerous exhibitions, events, conferences, and interventions, collaborating with international artists, scientists, activists, and thinkers both at Cabaret Voltaire and globally.
This event is jointly hosted by the HKU Arts Tech Lab and GCIN.
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