{"id":1835,"date":"2025-03-16T15:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiq.mjf.mybluehost.me\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:45:36","slug":"antonio-somaini-a-theory-of-latent-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalculturesandarts.ch\/de\/antonio-somaini-a-theory-of-latent-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Somaini: \u00abAI and Visual Culture: A Theory of Latent Spaces\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Antonio Somainis Forschung in den Bereichen Filmwissenschaft, visuelle Kultur und Medientheorie verfolgt einen zweigleisigen Ansatz. Einerseits untersucht er die Theorien der 1920er und 1930er Jahre, die er mit Fragen zeitgen\u00f6ssischer Film-, Bild- und Medientheorie in Verbindung bringt; andererseits fokussiert er sich auf die visuelle Kultur der Gegenwart und forscht zu Themen wie den neuen Bildwelten des maschinellen Sehens und des maschinellen Lernens, die er in einer historischen Perspektive verortet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Antonio Somaini wird im Zusammenhang mit der von ihm am Jeu de Paume in Paris kuratierten Ausstellung \u00abLe monde selon l'IA\u00bb (11.4.-21.9.2025) \u00fcber \u00abA Theory of Latent Spaces\u00bb sprechen.<br><br>Die Veranstaltung ist eine Kooperation des Seminars f\u00fcr Filmwissenschaft mit dem Zentrum K\u00fcnste und Kulturtheorie und wird moderiert von&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.film.uzh.ch\/de\/team\/professuren\/liptay.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fabienne Liptay<\/a>&nbsp;und&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.film.uzh.ch\/de\/team\/professuren\/meyer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roland Meyer<\/a>.<br><br>Veranstaltungsort:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cabaretvoltaire.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cabaret Voltaire<\/a>, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich<br>Im Anschluss: Ap\u00e9ro<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theory of images and visual culture, today, needs a theory of latent spaces. In a historical phase in which images are more and more generated, modified, circulated, seen and described by or with the help of different kinds of AI models, we need to understand the crucial role played by an abstract, mathematical construct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"mb":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Antonio Somaini: \u00abAI and Visual Culture: A Theory of Latent Spaces\u00bb - digital cultures and arts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/digitalculturesandarts.ch\/de\/antonio-somaini-a-theory-of-latent-spaces\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Antonio Somaini: \u00abAI and Visual Culture: A Theory of Latent Spaces\u00bb - digital cultures and arts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A theory of images and visual culture, today, needs a theory of latent spaces. 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