conferences
lectures & events
upcoming
Stay tuned for exciting things in 2025!
past
2024, 9 November
‘Computational Creativity: An Introduction to the CSIRAC Programming Manual’
Invited speaker: Jasmin Pfefferkorn,
9 Objects:Encounters with University of Melbourne Collections
registration available through QR code:
2024, 31 October
Photography and the Everyday Symposium Symposium presentation ‘Sociograms: Contemporary Photo-Sharing Practices’
Organisers: Scott McQuire, Jasmin Pfefferkorn, and Daniel Palmer
The University of Melbourne
details:
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/culture-and-communication/event/41498-photography-and-the-everyday
2024, 16-17 October
‘Are Foundation Models a Form of Neo-colonialism in Art Museums?’Presenter: Jasmin Pfefferkorn
BAICON Focus: Bandung International Conference For Cultural Studies, Bandung Indonesia
details here: https://fsrd.itb.ac.id/baiconfocus/
2024, 3-4 July
‘Making Culture: Human-Machine Entanglement’
Invited Speaker: Jasmin Pfefferkorn
Re/Framing: Creativity, Culture,Computation
RMIT University, Melbourne
details here:
http://www.reframing-ai.net/
2024, 24 May
‘AI Art and the productive potential of opacity’
Presenter: Jasmin Pfefferkorn
Towards and Automated Art? Learning Machines, Human Creativity and Uncertainty
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
details here:
https://towardsanautomatedart.weebly.com/
2024, 18 April
‘AI and Art: Innovating Expression’
Invited speaker: Jasmin Pfefferkorn
Shepp-art-on Festival
details here: https://sheppartonfestival.org.au/event/ai-art-innovating-expression/
2024, 15-19 January
‘Surreal Impressions: Deepfaking the Museum through Dalí and Van Gogh‘
Presenters: Jasmin Pfefferkorn & Anna Calise
The Art Museum in the Digital Age
Belvedere Research Centre, Vienna
details here: https://www.belvedere.at/en/digitalmuseum2024
2023, 2 December
‘Study-In On AI + Race + Art’
Invited speaker: Jasmin Pfefferkorn
Melbourne/ Naarm
details here: https://artandaustralia.com/58_1/p143/study-in-on-ai-race-art
2023, 8-11 November
‘Countering power: Towards a reflexive aesthetics of synthetic media‘
CODED AESTHETICS: Jasmin Pfefferkorn & Emilie K. Sunde
4S Society for Social Studies of Science, Honolulu Hawaii
details here: https://4sonline.org/
2023, 6.00-7.00pm 26 September
‘Book Launch: Museums as Assemblage’
Jasmin Pfefferkorn
Livestream recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_mU-E8h1Us
2023,21 September
‘Decentering Ethics with AI Art’
CAIDE AAIDE: Jasmin Pfefferkorn & Emilie K. SundeHADES (Humanities and Diverse E-Research Scholars), University of Melbourne
details here: HADES
2023, 5-7 July
‘Haunted AI’
CODED AESTHETICS: Jasmin Pfefferkorn & Emilie K. Sunde
xCoAx, 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Weimar Germany
details here: https://xcoax.org/
2022, April
Expert & Judge for ‘Psyche X Mental: Frame of Mind’, Science Gallery – finalist works can be found here
2022, 18-19 Feb
‘Finding Refuge in Small Data: Creative Process as Climate Crisis Intervention’
Dr Jasmin Pfefferkorn & Dr Danielle Wyatt
Small Data is Beautiful: Analytics, Art & Narrative Symposium, The University of Melbourne
2021, 18 Nov
Book Launch: Museum of the Commons
(Nikos Papastergiadis)
The Inaugral John Berger Memorial Lecture
The Greek Centre, Melbourne
2021, 22nd-23rd April
Presenter: Collaboration in a time of crisis: Public art museums, social networks, and digital solidarity. Paper
presented at the International Conference of Art, Museums and Digital Cultures, Lisbon
2020, 12 Nov
Presenter: Public Museums and the Pan-demos. Paper presented at the Communicative Cities Research Network,
Singapore Watch here
2019, 3 May
Presenter: The Affective Museum Assemblage. Paper presented at the Slow Reading
Symposium. Melbourne, Australia
2018, 18 June
Presenter: Cosmopolitanism and Museum Culture. Paper presented at the Cosmopolitan Intimacy: Space, Difference and Media Symposium. Melbourne, Australia
2014, 3 July
Presenter: The Emergent Museum Paper presented at the Crossroads Cultural Conference. Tampere, Finland.
2014, May & 2013, August
Speaker: Visitor Experience and Curatorial Strategy at Mona. Papers presented at the Mona Effects Seminars. Hobart, Tasmania.
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lectures
Lecture, Transoforming the Art Museum with Digital Media. Presented at The University of Melbourne, Australia 6 May 2024
Lecture, Towards a New Universalism. Presented at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 11 October 2021
Lecture, Data, AI & Digital Ethics. Presented at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 4 October 2021
Lecture, Methodologies of Mobility. Presented at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 4 October 2021
Lecture, Media Art and Digital Aesthetics. Presented at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 4 October 2021
Lecture, Cultural Cosmopolitanism Presented at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 27 September 2021
Lecture, Mobilising Art in Public Place: Art and Democracy in the Age of Digital Participation Presented at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 23 August 2021
Lecture, Global Media and the Transnational Public Sphere Presented at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 16 August 2021
Lecture, Digitizing Photography. Presented at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 9 August 2021
Lecture, Hospitality and the Stranger. Presented at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 17 August 2020
Lecture, Museums as Assemblage: Practice and Potentiality Presented at The University of
Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 9 May 2019
Lecture, Politics of Affect. Presented at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 1 October 2018
Lecture, Postmodern Governance: The Surveillance Society Presented at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 14 May 2018
Lecture, Media History: Internet Governance Presented at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia 26 March 2018
Invited lecture, Post-structural research methodologies. Presented at RPP Seminars for
Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia. October 2016, May 2017.