Team
Matteo Pasquinelli, PhD
Professor in Media Philosophy, HfG Karlsruhe
Principal Investigator, AI Forensics project at KIM HfG Karlsruhe
Pasquinelli is Professor in Media Philosophy at the University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, where he is coordinating the research group on Artificial Intelligence and Media Philosophy KIM. He edited the anthology Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas (Meson Press) and, with Vladan Joler, the visual essay ‘The Nooscope Manifested: AI as Instrument of Knowledge Extractivism’ (nooscope.ai). His research focuses on the intersection of cognitive sciences, digital economy and machine intelligence. For Verso Books he is preparing a monograph on the history of AI titled The Eye of the Master.
Paolo Caffoni
Assistant to the Chair in Media Philosophy, HfG Karlsruhe
PhD Student HfG Karlsruhe
Caffoni is a research associate and PhD candidate at the KIM research group on critical artificial intelligence at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. His doctoral project focuses on the methodologies of Naoki Sakai and Antonio Gramsci, investigating practices of translation among different media as a process of encounter between political subjectivities. His research interests include practices of critical pedagogy, the digitization of higher education, translation and mobility studies. Caffoni is faculty member of NABA – New Academy of Fine Arts Milan and was part of the curatorial team of the Second Yinchuan Biennale (China 2018). He also is editor of Berlin based publishing house Archive Books and of exhibition and public program at Archive Kabinett.
Arif Kornweitz
Research fellow, AI Forensics project at KIM HfG Karlsruhe
PhD Student HfG Karlsruhe
Kornweitz is a research fellow and PhD candidate at the KIM research group on critical artificial intelligence at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, where he investigates the history of conflict prediction and the application of machine learning in the humanitarian sector, as part of the AI Forensics project. Kornweitz holds a MSc in Conflict Resolution and Governance from the University of Amsterdam, he was a lecturer at the Basic Year and DesignLab departments of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and has been a guest lecturer at Iceland University, Sandberg Instituut, ArtEZ Arnhem, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, and Design Academy Eindhoven. He also is the co-founder of the radio initiative Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, a curatorial platform for contemporary art, critical music and sound.
PhD outline / arifkornweitz.com
Mariana Silva
PhD Student HfG Karlsruhe
Silva is PhD candidate at the KIM research group on critical artificial intelligence at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, where she is developing the PhD project Visualizing Extinction on the relation between the technical image and the scientific concept of species extinction. Visualizing Extinction considers the “media of extinction” in the face of changing technology, evolving conceptions of nature, and the management of endangered species within larger systems of knowledge and power. Silva will look into contemporary practices of animal biologging, genetic analysis of historical natural history collections, and artificial intelligence used to process data from camera traps as case-studies. Visualizing Extinction aims to provide a matrix to inquire on the relations, similarities, and distinctions between tecnical image production in both the 20th and 21st centuries and the construction of catastrophism and deep time. Silva is also an artist working with video, co-founder of inhabitants-tv.org, and has previously worked at e-flux journal.
Sascha Freyberg
Research fellow
PhD student, Heidelberg University
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Freyberg is research fellow of the KIM group with a grant by the Bertold Moos foundation. He studied cultural sciences and philosophy in Hagen and Berlin and is now Doctoral candidate at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg with a thesis on the configurational logic of cultural inquiry. He is managing editor for Verum Factum: Studies and Sources on Political Epistemology (EOA book series) and member of the MPG-partner group The Water City at CFU Venice. For the KIM group he organised the Breaking Models Workshop at MPIWG Berlin. His research interests are in the history and philosophy of culture and science and historical epistemology.
Associate Researchers
Adam Harvey
Research associate, AI Forensics project at KIM HfG
Prof. Fabian Offert, PhD
Research associate, AI Forensics project at KIM HfG
Students
George MacBeth
Course assistant (HiWi), Student HfG Karlsruhe
MacBeth is is a writer, editor, and critic, currently researching as part of the KIM research group at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. His criticism and short fiction has appeared in various outlets including PartisanHotel, Tribune Magazine, and Asymptote]. At KIM he is pursuing his ongoing research into the epistemic and political connections obtaining between the ‘aesthetics of administration’ in post-70s conceptual art, the continuing embellishment of combinatorial and algorithmic procedures in avant-gardist poetics, and the ‘unnatural language generation’ of corporate NLP and NLG ‘foundation models’. He works as an editor for Asymptote journal, the leading online outlet for world literature in English translation, and UMBAU, the in-house art theory journal of the HfG in Karlsruhe, and is a regular contributor to the film revue podcast Muub Tube.
Guillermo Collado Wilkins
Student HfG Karlsruhe
Collado Wilkins is a theorist and artist, currently researching as part of the KIM research group at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. He holds a BEc and has specialised in heterodox economics and planning, a topic on which he was a guest lecturer at the UBI summer school in Barcelona. In Barcelona he also worked in the field of natural language processing and AI analytics for the public sector, later using this experience at HfG Karlsruhe, where he has also worked as a guest lecturer on critical studies into digital technologies. His artistic work has been exhibited in cities such as Barcelona, Berlin, and Athens. He is currently carrying out situated research in the northern Spanish region of Navarre, where he is looking at environmental agency and planning, as part of æ(æ), a collective he cofounded.
Women in Computation Collective
Carmen Westermaier, Emma-Lilo Keller, Ulrike Bawarnietz, Vanessa Bosch, Students HfG Karlsruhe
Christopher von Frankenberg
Course assistant (HiWi), Student HfG Karlsruhe
Barbara Acevedo Strange and Simon Knebl
Student HfG Karlsruhe (KIM logo design)
Florian Walzel, MA
Web designer
Alumnae/i
Ariana Dongus
arianadongus.com
Max Grünberg
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Universität Kassel
Franziska Vogel
Student HfG Karlsruhe
Philipp Ernst
Student HfG Karlsruhe
Daniel Seiler
Student HfG Karlsruhe
Moritz Nebenfuehr
Student HfG Karlsruhe
Felix Buchholz
Student HfG Karlsruhe
Vincent Herrmann
Student HMDK Stuttgart
vincentherrmann.github.io
Simon Zimmerman
Student HMDK Stuttgart
Patrick Nicklaus
Student KIT Karlsruhe
Anina Rubin
Student HfG Karlsruhe
anina.land
Fabio Iapaolo
HfG Karlsruhe Alumnus, PhD student Polytechnic University of Turin
Lukas Rehm
Student HfG Karlsruhe Alumnus
Michail Rybakov
HfG Karlsruhe Alumnus
rybakov.com
Daniel Neumann
HfG Karlsruhe Alumnus, PhD Humboldt University Berlin