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Lecture
Latent Spaces. AI, Art, and the Archive. Talk by Antonio Somaini
17.09.2026 18:00–19:30
The event is a part of the Future Fragments series
LOCATION
Auditorium
LANGUAGE
English
ADMISSION
Free thanks to the cooperation with Audi Polska
Pierre Cassou-Noguès and Gwenola Wagon, At the Edge of Time, 2025
Future Fragments is a series of events bringing together art, technology and science, dedicated to how our understanding of creativity, agency and intelligence is changing today. During the fourth event in this year’s series, Antonio Somaini, Professor of Film, Media, and Visual Culture Theory at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and curator of the exhibition The World Through AI, will speak about his research on the intersection of art and AI technologies. Focusing on the notion of latent spaces he will interrogate how AI is transforming our relation with the past, and reconfigure the way we encounter archives.
In recent years, analytic and generative AI models have been gradually transforming our relation with the past: with history, memory, and the archive. The reconstruction of the past has always been technically mediated and politically contested, yet contemporary AI introduces a distinct regime of mediation: one in which historical materials are reorganized within computational spaces that determine their visibility, legibility, and narratability. What is at stake is therefore a shift in historicity itself: in the technological and epistemological frameworks that make history thinkable. The talk will analyze this ongoing transformation from the perspective of visual culture theory and through a series of artworks (many of which presented in the exhibition The World Through AI with its different versions) engaging in different ways with AI technologies.
