This Symposium was recorded in full, and all the lectures can be found on our YouTube channel, or down below you will find the videos for each day of the symposium. Stay tunned for our publication with all of the essays from each speaker!

Organized by (Re)Create Art Projects
June 24–27, 2026

(Re)Create Art Projects is pleased to announce Artificial Intelligence: Its Cultural,
Political and Philosophical Potentialities, a symposium to be held online from
Wednesday, June 24 until Saturday, June 27, 2026.

Presenters include: Ada Ackerman, David W. Bates, Nicolas Bourriaud,
Claire Fontaine, Tariq Krim, Agnieszka Kurant, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Anna Longo,
Yann Moulier Boutang, Warren Neidich, Martha Schwendener, and Hito Steyerl.
The presentation lectures will be freely streamed on YouTube and include Q+A at the end.

Program

All times are Central European Time/Paris.

Wednesday | June 24, 2026

6 pm | Opening remarks with Gale Elston

6:30–8:30 pm | Anna Longo: How LLMs Invite us to Rethink the Modern Subject, and Lynn Hershman Leeson: Agent Ruby's Revenge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15XPHmhUo5Y

Thursday | June 25, 2026

1–3 pm | Nicolas Bourriaud: Epimetheus and the Zombies: 21st Century Art in Front of the Automatic Alterity, and Agnieszka Kurant: Recursion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFzQV5q49Ck

4–6 pm | Claire Fontaine: Al and General Intellect, and
Tariq Krim: AI Treating Human Culture as Indigenous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTAZuR4nc3w&t=2768s

Friday | June 26, 2026

1–3 pm |Ada Ackerman: AI, and Missing Images: Decolonial and Counterfactual
Potentialities, and Warren Neidich: The Emancipation of the Neural-Epistemological:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igBDHWa0Le0

Commons: Resisting Data and Intellectual Enclosures
4–6 pm | Yann Moulier Boutang: Political Economy of AI, and Martha Schwendener: Vilém Flusser and AI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnT6K2pwCT0

Saturday | June 27, 2026

10 am–12 pm | David W. Bates: Political Bodies of the Cybernetic Age, and Hito Steyerl: Art in the Age of Authoritarian Chatbots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZhB_W3IXSM

2–4 pm | Round Table discussion
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