Beyond Digital: Or, Why There Won’t Be a 3rd Digital Turn Driven by AI

The talk will discuss some aspects of the current use of machine learning technologies in the visual arts, and suggest that GAN generated images, or images generated by generative AI, are inducing a surreptitious revival of some ancestral (and long disparaged) categories of western art, such as imitation, and style.

Mario Carpo, Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory, the Bartlett, University College London; Professor of Architectural Theory, Die Angewandte (University of Applied Arts), Vienna. His latest book, Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity, was published by the MIT Press in April.

The event is part of the lecture series Order | Disorder. The lecture will take place at Technical University of Darmstadt and will be held in English.