Virtual Colloquium: Daniel Irrgang – “On critical approaches to GenAI in art and aesthetics”

We are joined by Daniel Irrgang as part of the Virtual Colloquium at the Berlin University of the Arts on Thursday, 18.12.2025 at 9 am for a presentation titled “On critical approaches to GenAI in art and aesthetics”. The presentation showcases the publication of the same name authored by Tanya Avn Rag, Mick With Berland and Daniel Irrgang.

This lecture is based on insights developed in a research seminar organized at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Arts and Cultural Studies in 2024, which hosted artists and researchers investigating generative AI (GenAI). It proposes a framework for categorizing artistic approaches to working critically with and on GenAI, resulting in three coordinates: AI imaginaries, AI deconstructions, and AI exposures. Instead of assuming a mere reproduction of aesthetics already inherent in the underlying training datasets, the framework investigates the question of how artistic practices may critically engage with GenAI.

Daniel Irrgang is a scholar in media, art, and culture with a focus on the enactment of knowledge, e.g., in exhibitions, diagrammatic depictions, or algorithmic practices in art and design. His current main research topics are oriented towards presentation and representation strategies in climate research, as well as towards structures of inequality (algorithmic, technical, practices) in the digital sphere. He is a postdoctoral researcher within the ‘Climate Futures in Digital Cultures’ research initiative at Leuphana University of Lüneburg and associated with the ‘Design, Diversity und New Commons’ section at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin. 

Please find below the Zoom link to join, which will be the same for all online sessions this semester:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82954605489?pwd=VP3XBDzVogeuQtLWaXbWEFpm9ObxiQ.1

Meeting-ID: 829 5460 5489
Kenncode: 079532