Online event: UNCOMPUTABLE

Drawing on transdisciplinary methods that weave together film making practice, generative AI, and relational pedagogy, Szilvia’s recent research experiments with non-linear, emergent forms of learning to rethink how creative practitioners and practice-based researchers can approach increasingly opaque AI systems. She will present the process and outcomes of the seminar “Uncomputable” held at the Film University Babelsberg in which, together with students, she developed experimental, practice-based learning formats in order to uncover the specificity of generative AI, treating AI not only not as a tool but as a collaborator in the research process.

Adapting methodologies such as exquisite corpse, the research fosters collective making, interdependence, and unpredictability to surface forms of knowledge that resist commodification. The outcomes propose a model of “wild research” that embraces opacity, ambiguity, and experimentation as counterpoints to dominant computational paradigms.

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This event has been organised by ARIEL: UCL’s Centre for Creative Practice Research. ARIEL is a hub for intellectual exploration and exchange between academics of all disciplines and artists of all genres in the creative and cultural industries. ARIEL is a collaboration between UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and UCL School of Creative and Cultural Industries (SCCI).

About the Speakers

Szilvia Ruszev

Szilvia Ruszev is a film editor, media artist and practice-based researcher working across media. Her interdisciplinary research interest is situated in the fields of cinema and media studies, new materialism and digital studies intersecting various methodologies of a creative-critical praxis. Some of the recurring themes in her research are sensuous knowledge, expanded montage theories, and politics of post-cinema with a specific focus on the entanglement of networked technologies, capitalism and representation of social categories such as race, class and gender.

She is the Principal Investigator of the AHRC/BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) funded ‘Shared Post-Human Imagination’ research which investigates responsible AI in the context of media production.

Christine Reeh-Peters

Christine Reeh-Peters is a German filmmaker, philosopher and artistic researcher living between Bochum and Lisbon who explores the intersections between film and philosophy. She is professor for Film and Digital Arts at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum. She holds a PhD in Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics from the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, and a diploma in film direction by the Portuguese National Film School ESTC - Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema.

Until August 2023, Christine was junior professor for Artistic Research in Digital Media at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam. Christine has published one monograph and edited several anthologies for publication houses like Brill or Cambridge Scholars Publishing; she published articles in journals like Film-philosophy, Philosophies or Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. She is since 2003 shareholder, film producer and film director at the film production company C.R.I.M. in Lisbon of which she is as well co-founder (crim-productions.com). She is an award-winning director and author of artistic videos and creative documentaries.