Fabian Offert
@zentralwerkstatt.org
Associate Professor UC Santa Barbara | I study how machine learning models represent culture and what is at stake – aesthetically and politically – when they do.
"Ideology, they argue, inhabits not only representational content: bias is 'embedded in the logic of representation itself.'" New in review, Chen Liying on Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert's Vector Media: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/chen_liying_...
Tomorrow and Saturday at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, free and open to all. Stop by if you're in the area!
.VSB?!?!?! This is early 2000s script kiddie erasure and I feel personally attacked.
CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...
CFP: Generative Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works
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I'll be at the amazing U of T BMO lab at 4:30pm tomorrow to talk about Brecht, Wagner, and artificial intelligence, courtesy of @sbaycheng.bsky.social & David Rokeby. New research, so I'm especially excited. Stop by if you happen to be in Toronto!
The program for our Critical AI Studies? conference, happening Oct. 9&10 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, is now online: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Hope to see you there!
UK friends, next Tuesday we will Europe-launch our book at King's College: 9/2, 4L30pm, KCL Macadam Building MAC 106. Panel w/ @joannazylinska.bsky.social, @dchavezheras.bsky.social & @mrsbunz.bsky.social hosted by the Creative AI Lab. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...
Select tickets – Creative AI presents: 'Vector Media' Book Launch 📚🌐 – Macadam, Surrey St - King's College London
Creative AI presents: 'Vector Media' Book Launch 📚🌐 – Macadam, Surrey St - King's College London, Tue 22 Sep 2026 - We would like to invite you to attend our book launch celebrating Vector Media with ...
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🚀 Digital version is out! 🚀 BUT we do think this one 📕 is so beautiful thanks to the 💨 cover pic by Trevor Paglen @paglen.studio -> everyone should get the real thing. 📚 @zentralwerkstatt.org @uminnpress.bsky.social also Leo Impett & Johanna Drucker meson.press/books/vector...
It might be entirely a my bubble thing but everybody I know hates their phone. The appeal of a phone that's actually two and a half phones to me is less than zero. Then again it's $2K so obviously not for me.
New German Critique has the Digital Theory Lab's Semiotic Machines special issue forthcoming, featuring a collection of essays by people at the cutting edge of AI and interpretation, politics, and culture ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
New German Critique: Forthcoming Issues
Widely considered the top journal in its field, New German Critique is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German studies.
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Etwas Neues von mir: Der Merkur bringt meinen Text »Probabilistische Intution. Über artifiziellen Text und seine Stile«. www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/prob...
Alle Jahre wieder. It. Does. Not. Work. Und übrigens auch 1:1 von Adam Harvey geklaut. (Das Argument, es ginge nur darum, auf die Überwachung aufmerksam zu machen, ist irrelevant wenn – wie in der taz hier – die Funktion als Fakt präsentiert wird. Im Bild: YOLO 8 one shot.)
taz@taz.de · 2mo agoDas Kottbusser Tor wird bald von KI-Kameras überwacht. Der Künstler Simon Weckert zeigt, wie sich die Technik mit einem T-Shirt überlisten lässt 👉️ taz.de/!6205593/
There has been little scholarly work on the media history of the GPU. This freshly published OA article is my attempt to show the lines of influence from learning machines in the 1950s through 1980s HPC and MPP systems to the TPUs and GPUs of the present. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fancy an excuse to come to Stockholm in September? Open seminar on PICTURE CULTURES with various folks involved in the project Selling Pictures: Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020 (IFFS/VR). Speaker list in the comments!
Last day to submit! Deadline is today!
Fabian Offert@zentralwerkstatt.org · 4mo agoExcited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
Me: (being murdered by the AI paperclip maximizer) Bluesky: Actually it can't 'murder' you. Murder implies intent.
One more week to submit! See you in Santa Barbara in October!
Fabian Offert@zentralwerkstatt.org · 4mo agoExcited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
You know that annoying asshole we all hate? Well I have resolved to put screenshots of his posts into your feed every day until the heat death of the universe. Enjoy
Looks just like him amazing down to the low-cut grey dress he always liked to wear to the patent office
Nature@nature.com · 3mo agoAt the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, students can listen to lectures given by AI avatars that look and speak just like Albert Einstein go.nature.com/3SROOtD
I posted on arXiv.org the preprint of my “AI Virtue: What Is ‘Good’ Knowledge in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?” arxiv.org/abs/2607.01776, which is forthcoming in a double special issue of “MFS Modern Fiction Studies on “Cultural AI” in 2027.
So glad to see the book "Vector Media", just co-published with @uminnpress.bsky.social, getting the attention it deserves! 👇Shout out to the authors @zentralwerkstatt.org Fabian Offert + Leo Impett for their excellent work!!!! ✊ + thx @mckenziewark.bsky.social + Lev Manovich for your interest.
If you're wondering why the world is what it is you should read the Hacker News comments on this piece (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4877...), where one half doesn't get the joke and the other is like "she does have some good points though." inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-...
Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
This neat site assembles all kinds of ancient OSs (more like window managers) which reminded me of the hyper-obscure one that I learned Desktop computing on, called GeoWorks Ensemble. It pretends to be Windows but if you poke anything it crumbles back into DOS. Glorious. www.typewritten.org/Media/
Getting looped into convos about this book in its finishing stages expanded the scope of theory around neural networks in LLMs & Media — it opened up so many productive ways of thinking for me. Essential reading for anyone who’s been looking for a fresh theorization of critical AI.
James E. Dobson@jeddobson.bsky.social · 5mo agoBound to be one of the most important critical and theoretical books on the meaning of neural networks (and not just for vision). Congratulations to Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org! Freshly published from meson press and University of Minnesota Press. @uminnpress.bsky.social
Bound to be one of the most important critical and theoretical books on the meaning of neural networks (and not just for vision). Congratulations to Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org! Freshly published from meson press and University of Minnesota Press. @uminnpress.bsky.social
