[Commlist] The Other AI: Automated Intimacies

*'The Other AI: Automated Intimacies'* is a research project strand of 
the Queer Analysis Research Group (University of Amsterdam), holding its 
first one-day symposium at the V2 Lab for the Unstable Media in 
Rotterdam, the Netherlands on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. The event combines 
queer and trans theory with psychoanalytic perspectives in relation to 
the automation of intimate relations and the exteriorisation of desire. 
Can automation—and its failures—bring something new, or invite new 
interpretations of old habits and fixations? Is repetition not an 
opening? We bring together scholars and artists in a series of talks and 
workshops to open up a non-normative space for thinking about the 
technological mediations of intimacy, especially those forms that seem 
to replace, replicate or extend subjectivity through AI, VR, robotics, 
apps or other technified forms of the libidinal drive.
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*SPEAKERS*
Ciano Aydin (University of Twente)
Ilker Bahar (University of Amsterdam)
Rex Collins (independent artist)
Bethany Crawford (University of Amsterdam)
Laura Dima (independent artist)
Maaike van der Horst (University of Twente)
Misha Kavka (University of Amsterdam)
Shaka McGlotten (SUNY, Purchase, New York)
Veerle van Wijngaarden (University of Amsterdam)

The event will take place on-site from 1pm to 10pm (CET), with evening 
public lectures by Ciano Aydin, Shaka McGlotten and Misha Kavka also 
streamed online via V2. For programme information and  tickets to attend 
‘The Other AI’ in person or online go to: 
https://www.v2.nl/events/the-other-ai-automated-intimacies 
<https://www.v2.nl/events/the-other-ai-automated-intimacies>

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