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<p>dear community,</p>
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<p>this is an invitation from mur.at - open source art server &
net art platform - to some of our current activities. remote
participation may be possible on request, please get back to us if
you wish to do so!</p>
<p>best,</p>
<p>maggie (for mur.at)</p>
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<p><b>mur.at worklab SAVE THE DATE</b><br>
<br>
we will be hosting our traditional worklab again this June. GIA
will present their work, plus we have some more exciting talks and
workshop.</p>
<p>save the date: mur.at worklab 19.-23. June 2024 @ KiG, Volkshaus
Graz<br>
more infos & detailed program will follow shortly.</p>
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<p><b>mur.at presents AiR@mur</b><br>
<br>
currently the slovenian collective GIA is doing an artist
residency at mur.at. they are artists, coders and media theorists
and activists and run the noncommercial server project kompot.si
in Ljubljana. during their residency GIA hosts an open reading
group focused on the topics of critical "AI" & LLMs (large
language models), and they will also present & discuss their
work at our annual worklab. the reading group happens every
wednesday 16-18h Vienna time at the mur.at headquarter,
Leitnergasse 7, Graz. remote participation is possible on prior
request. come and join us to discuss the future of chatbots!<br>
<br>
more info and texts to read:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mur.at/post/2024-gia-readinggroup/">https://mur.at/post/2024-gia-readinggroup/</a><br>
detailed invitation here:<br>
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The GIA collective is organising a reading group in May and June
2024.<br>
<br>
Dates: Wednesdays May 22, May 29, June 5<br>
Time: 16.00-18.00<br>
Location: mur-Projektraum, Leitnergasse 7, 8010 Graz<br>
The reading group will be held in English only.<br>
<br>
LLMs represent a major advancement of the ‘computational turn’ in
mediality, but remain rather isolated as an object of
investigation or critique. This is partly due to marketing hype
surrounding them (which becomes the secondary object of critique)
or their ambivalent corporate origin, but also a lack of ambitious
theoretical considerations.<br>
<br>
In order to attempt a more wide ranging view we invite you to join
GIA’s activities the mur.at worklab and together we will consider
questions like:<br>
<br>
How do LLMs remediate old dreams (and nightmares) of universal
languages, encyclopedists, archivists and all kinds of information
management projects to which LLMs are peculiarly related?<br>
<br>
How is the question of remediation related to abstraction and
what kind of vistas do LLMs open for us (new dreams and new
nightmares)?<br>
<br>
In what sense can we understand LLMs as the first true AI
cultural interfaces? What does the future hold in an era of
ubiquitous LLMs?<br>
<br>
What kinds of social and self-relations will be afforded by
LLMs?<br>
<br>
We will address these and similar questions in our activities.
These include Wednesday reading groups (22.5. 29.5. 5.6. // 16.00
- 18.00) in the mur.at project room (Leitnergasse 7) and a
traditional worklab in June (19. -23. 6.) at KIG.<br>
<br>
More information about the coming reading seminars:<br>
<br>
You can come to any seminar. There’s no need to attend all.<br>
The texts we will read will be announced here each week. If
you want to suggest a text, you can do so at the seminar or send
us an email at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gia@kompot.si">gia@kompot.si</a><br>
<br>
For the first week we suggest to read:<br>
<br>
Operative ekphrasis: The collapse of the text/image
distinction in multimodal AI<br>
Buckland, M. The expansion of bibliography: Dog-stone,
antelope, and evidence<br>
<br>
Secondary (not necessary) texts:<br>
<br>
Non-Human Words: On GPT-3 as a Philosophical Laboratory<br>
The Model is The Message<br>
<br>
If you would like to join or if you have any questions, please
contact us at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gia@kompot.si">gia@kompot.si</a><br>
<br>
See you around!<br>
<br>
GIA team<br>
<br>
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