Why do we seek truth? Why do we expect AI to give us true answers, and what does it have to do with who we are and want to become? Historically, how did it come about that we began to expect truth in text or in a work of art? How is it possible that our subjective truth may deviate from the truth of the social relationships in which we find ourselves? Why is truth in art personally felt? And how do these conundrums about subjective and objective truths, existential meaning-making, and communal value connect, and what happens to them after AI?

AI generates meaning but also shatters the extra-semantic dimensions of its composition, from the social and the collective to those involved in generating meaning for a good life. This talk will address some of these questions, asking how truth is implicated in abstraction, and suggesting that while we desire abstractions and their truths, truth and subjectivity are always articulated not only ethically, but also aesthetically. Subjectivation is a profoundly aesthetic process, and this is both something that is undergoing radical transformation now and something that gives us hope.

Address
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN
Arsenal Objekt 19A
1030 Vienna

No participant limit, free admission.