06.11.2024, Wed
Gallery Medium
18:00

The book “The Culture of Neural Networks: Synthetic Literature and Art in (Not Only) the Czech and Slovak Context” by Karel Piorecký and Zuzana Husárová, published by Karolinum, reflects, names, and critically analyzes the phenomena and artifacts associated with the intersection of artificial neural networks into the literary and artistic spheres. It also relates generated works to earlier forms of experimentation and places the phenomenon of synthetic creation in a historical or developmental context.

Doc. Jana Horáková wrote the following about the book: “The author duo – Karel Piorecký and Zuzana Husárová – has adeptly taken on the task of providing a critical reflection on the global boom of AI applications for generating literary, visual, and sound works. The book is not only a comprehensive excursion into the history of using generative media in Czech and Slovak art and culture but also offers a geographically, disciplinarily, and conceptually broad framework for navigating today’s tumultuous debate about the impacts of AI on our civilization, fueled by marketing slogans from AI companies and journalistic clickbait headlines.”

“Shape of Future Earth” is a collection of essays by guest fellows of the Digital Arts Platform at the Academy of Fine Arts. The book explores various ways of referencing the future planet. It considers non-anthropocentric perspectives, examines substructures and computational intelligences as acting entities, delineates the boundaries of scientific models and their situational applications, and names the impact of war on the ecology of the land and its bodies. The essays were written by Enda O’Riordan, Lenka Hamošová, Oleksii Kuchansky, Natália Trejbalová, Lukáš Likavčan, and editor András Cséfalvay.