About the workshop
In this workshop we explore why people turn to AI for answers, what kinds of truths AI produces, and how these relate to questions of knowledge, subjectivity, and ethics. Moving beyond familiar debates about AI hallucinations, the workshop will examine the relationship between the personal truths people seek from chatbots, such as life advice, and the seemingly objective knowledge on which AI systems draw. What makes us expect truth from AI-generated words and images? How do AI systems reshape the boundaries between subjective and objective knowledge, facts and values, and individual and collective understandings of truth? Drawing on perspectives from art and other practices of truth-making, the workshop invites an open discussion of how AI is changing our relationship to truth.
The location at UiO will be confirmed based on the number of registered participants.
About Olga Goriunova
Olga Goriunova is Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Ideal Subjects. The Abstract People of AI (2025), Bleak Joys. Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility (co-authored, 2019) and Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (2012) and editor of Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Pain and Paradox in Computing (2014). She was a co-organiser of software art repository Runme.org and a co-curator of software art festivals (four editions of the Readme festivals in Moscow 2002, Helsinki 2003, Aarhus 2004 and Dortmund 2005) and other exhibitions. She edited or co-edited four Readme publications, including Readme. Software Art and Culture (2004). She is a co-founder and co-editor of Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies.
Registration
The workshop is open to interested researchers and students, but places are limited. Please register by Monday, November 2nd to secure your spot.