Duration
17.10.26, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Location
Auditorium
Language
German, English
Admission
Free admission
Info
This study day is part of a larger research programme initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, which supports the development of eleven artistic projects across the country, each exploring AI technologies. One of them is OMSK Social Club's OUR BR00D at Haus der Kunst, from which this day directly grows.
The study day explores technological kinship: the relationships and social systems that shape artificial intelligence. It asks not only how we build and train AI, but also what kind of world is being created through AI today — and what other worlds could we bring into being instead?
Building on this artistic proposition, the study day brings together voices from philosophy, AI research, and critical theory to examine the social architectures that shape contemporary AI systems. Three thematic sessions frame the discussion.
Reproductive Infrastructures focuses on the politics of training, asking how AI systems are maintained and reproduced, and whose labour, data, and social relations make that possible.
Metabolic Circuits examines the material and environmental conditions of AI — the energy, infrastructure, and planetary entanglements that sustain it, and the forms of extraction and dependency it produces in the world.
Worlding looks at how stories, simulations, and speculative ideas shape the way we imagine reality, and where the exits might be.
Between the discussions, OMSK Social Club will lead short somatic research sessions. Through movement, breath, and simple relational exercises, participants are invited to metabolise the ideas of the day in a physical way. As an extension of the live exhibition Echoes and part of the artistic process, the study day becomes an experiment in different ways of learning — where thinking happens not only through conversation, but also through the body.
The lectures will be held in English, German live captions will be available.
The full program will be announced soon.
This programme is conceived by Sarah Johanna Theurer in close dialogue with OMSK Social Club and David Goldberg.