Lars Pinkwart
@larspinkwart.com
PhD Candidate & Research Associate
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
Zurich University of the Arts &
University of Zurich
https://larspinkwart.com/
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
Zurich University of the Arts &
University of Zurich
https://larspinkwart.com/
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Lars Pinkwart
@larspinkwart.com
· Oct 11
Resilient Models. Training on Volatility – Umbau
In the training of AI models, resilience has become a central benchmark for a model’s ability to adapt to and learn from volatility.
umbau.hfg-karlsruhe.de
My new article is out in UMBAU: "Resilient Models. Training on Volatility": umbau.hfg-karlsruhe.de/posts/resili...
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🎉 Neu erschienen:
www.campus.de/e-books/wiss...
Wir ziehen darin eine Linie von der Psychotechnik des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts zu den algorithmischen Psychotechnologien der Gegenwart.
Wir danken unseren Beiträger·innen und dem Campus Verlag für die tolle Zusammenarbeit!
www.campus.de/e-books/wiss...
Wir ziehen darin eine Linie von der Psychotechnik des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts zu den algorithmischen Psychotechnologien der Gegenwart.
Wir danken unseren Beiträger·innen und dem Campus Verlag für die tolle Zusammenarbeit!
Die Macht des Psychotechnischen, ein E-Book von Bernd Bösel, Julia Weber - Campus Verlag
Bernd Bösel, Julia Weber: Die Macht des Psychotechnischen - Band I Zur Erschließung eines transdiziplinären Forschungsfeldes
www.campus.de
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🎉 Neu erschienen:
www.campus.de/e-books/wiss...
Wir ziehen darin eine Linie von der Psychotechnik des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts zu den algorithmischen Psychotechnologien der Gegenwart.
Wir danken unseren Beiträger·innen und dem Campus Verlag für die tolle Zusammenarbeit!
www.campus.de/e-books/wiss...
Wir ziehen darin eine Linie von der Psychotechnik des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts zu den algorithmischen Psychotechnologien der Gegenwart.
Wir danken unseren Beiträger·innen und dem Campus Verlag für die tolle Zusammenarbeit!
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Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI
This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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I am still processing the many impressions, insights and ideas that emerged from our conference. Many heartfelt thanks to all the speakers for their inspiring contributions and the intensive discussion—it was great to welcome you all to Zurich, and I hope we'll be able to continue the conversation!
From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich.
Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.
Program & Registration:
Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.
Program & Registration:
International Conference: «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism»
Bringing together scholars and artists from a range of fields and backgrounds, the international conference «React & Respond» aims to map and analyze these contemporary economies of networked image cu...
digitalculturesandarts.ch
October 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I am still processing the many impressions, insights and ideas that emerged from our conference. Many heartfelt thanks to all the speakers for their inspiring contributions and the intensive discussion—it was great to welcome you all to Zurich, and I hope we'll be able to continue the conversation!
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How do platforms shape the way we see, share & react to images?
Join React & Respond, international conference on image cultures under platform capitalism, October 2–4.
Open to all, register now: www.zhdk.ch/veranstaltun...
@bildoperationen.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social @zkk-zurich.bsky.social
Join React & Respond, international conference on image cultures under platform capitalism, October 2–4.
Open to all, register now: www.zhdk.ch/veranstaltun...
@bildoperationen.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social @zkk-zurich.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
How do platforms shape the way we see, share & react to images?
Join React & Respond, international conference on image cultures under platform capitalism, October 2–4.
Open to all, register now: www.zhdk.ch/veranstaltun...
@bildoperationen.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social @zkk-zurich.bsky.social
Join React & Respond, international conference on image cultures under platform capitalism, October 2–4.
Open to all, register now: www.zhdk.ch/veranstaltun...
@bildoperationen.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social @zkk-zurich.bsky.social
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For edification, the reason why "AI enhancement" of images doesn't work is that it is synthetically generating information that *wasn't present* in the original image. You can't fabricate synthetic information and then use it as "evidence" for analysis and identification of aspects of the real world
The replies on X to the FBI's call for help IDing the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect is made up mainly of people either blaming trans people or doing shitty internet detective work. Also lots of terrible attempts to use LLMs to enhance the images.
September 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
For edification, the reason why "AI enhancement" of images doesn't work is that it is synthetically generating information that *wasn't present* in the original image. You can't fabricate synthetic information and then use it as "evidence" for analysis and identification of aspects of the real world
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🚨The Critical AI Seminar Series returns in 2025/2026 ✨
This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨
Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨
Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
September 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🚨The Critical AI Seminar Series returns in 2025/2026 ✨
This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨
Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨
Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
Reposted by Lars Pinkwart
From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich.
Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.
Program & Registration:
Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.
Program & Registration:
International Conference: «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism»
Bringing together scholars and artists from a range of fields and backgrounds, the international conference «React & Respond» aims to map and analyze these contemporary economies of networked image cu...
digitalculturesandarts.ch
September 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich.
Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.
Program & Registration:
Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.
Program & Registration:
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Attractive job offer at the University of Zurich:
Lecturer Teaching position in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data, 100%, permanent position
Please share widely!
#DigitalHumanitie #JobAlert
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
Lecturer Teaching position in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data, 100%, permanent position
Please share widely!
#DigitalHumanitie #JobAlert
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
UZH: Lecturer Teaching
The Art History Department (Program Directorate) in collaboration of the departments of Film Studies, Archaeology, Media and Communication, and Educational Sciences of the University of Zurich is seek...
jobs.uzh.ch
July 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Attractive job offer at the University of Zurich:
Lecturer Teaching position in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data, 100%, permanent position
Please share widely!
#DigitalHumanitie #JobAlert
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
Lecturer Teaching position in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data, 100%, permanent position
Please share widely!
#DigitalHumanitie #JobAlert
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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We are looking forward to an exciting evening with Antonio Somaini at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, where he will present «A Theory of Latent Spaces» on the 2nd of June at 7pm! The event is organized in cooperation with the @zkk-zurich.bsky.social and the Department of Film Studies (UZH)
Antonio Somaini: «AI and Visual Culture: A Theory of Latent Spaces» | ZHdK.ch
Vortrag / Vorlesung | 02.06.2025, 19:00 | Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich
www.zhdk.ch
May 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We are looking forward to an exciting evening with Antonio Somaini at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, where he will present «A Theory of Latent Spaces» on the 2nd of June at 7pm! The event is organized in cooperation with the @zkk-zurich.bsky.social and the Department of Film Studies (UZH)
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On our new account @digitalculturesandarts.ch, my dear colleague @larspinkwart.com and I will announce events, projects and publications and share news about our work on digital cultures and arts at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK – stay tuned for updates!
We are looking forward to an exciting evening with Antonio Somaini at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, where he will present «A Theory of Latent Spaces» on the 2nd of June at 7pm! The event is organized in cooperation with the @zkk-zurich.bsky.social and the Department of Film Studies (UZH)
Antonio Somaini: «AI and Visual Culture: A Theory of Latent Spaces» | ZHdK.ch
Vortrag / Vorlesung | 02.06.2025, 19:00 | Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich
www.zhdk.ch
May 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On our new account @digitalculturesandarts.ch, my dear colleague @larspinkwart.com and I will announce events, projects and publications and share news about our work on digital cultures and arts at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK – stay tuned for updates!
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Save the Date: Am 22. und 23. Mai findet der Workshop «Plattform-Politiken» der AG Interfaces in der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM) an der HfG Karlsruhe statt – freu mich darauf und bin sehr gespannt! ag-interfaces.net/2025/05/12/w...
May 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Save the Date: Am 22. und 23. Mai findet der Workshop «Plattform-Politiken» der AG Interfaces in der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM) an der HfG Karlsruhe statt – freu mich darauf und bin sehr gespannt! ag-interfaces.net/2025/05/12/w...
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Dear #STS friends,
Very happy to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming STS-CH 2025 Conference, taking place from September 10–12, 2025, in Zurich!
You can consult the list of panels, and much more, here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
We look forward to seeing you soon! 🤗
Very happy to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming STS-CH 2025 Conference, taking place from September 10–12, 2025, in Zurich!
You can consult the list of panels, and much more, here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
We look forward to seeing you soon! 🤗
April 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Dear #STS friends,
Very happy to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming STS-CH 2025 Conference, taking place from September 10–12, 2025, in Zurich!
You can consult the list of panels, and much more, here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
We look forward to seeing you soon! 🤗
Very happy to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming STS-CH 2025 Conference, taking place from September 10–12, 2025, in Zurich!
You can consult the list of panels, and much more, here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
We look forward to seeing you soon! 🤗
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Kolleg:innen aus Wissenschaftsphilosophie und Technikgeschichte aller Länder, bewerbt Euch!
ethz.ch/de/die-eth-z...
ethz.ch/de/die-eth-z...
Professur / Assistenzprofessur (Tenure Track) für Technikgeschichte und Professur / Assistenzprofessur (Tenure Track) für Wissenschaftsphilosophie
ethz.ch
April 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Kolleg:innen aus Wissenschaftsphilosophie und Technikgeschichte aller Länder, bewerbt Euch!
ethz.ch/de/die-eth-z...
ethz.ch/de/die-eth-z...
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The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology.
📢Please share widely!
s.gwdg.de/SULoAf
📢Please share widely!
s.gwdg.de/SULoAf
January 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology.
📢Please share widely!
s.gwdg.de/SULoAf
📢Please share widely!
s.gwdg.de/SULoAf
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Übernächste Woche, am 7. April 2025 um 18:15h, findet meine Antrittsvorlesung an der Uni Zürich statt, zu der ich sehr herzlich einlade. Wer vorbeikommen möchte, kann mir gerne per DM oder Kommentar Bescheid geben, ich würde mich sehr freuen, mit Euch beim anschliessenden Apéro anzustossen!
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March 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Übernächste Woche, am 7. April 2025 um 18:15h, findet meine Antrittsvorlesung an der Uni Zürich statt, zu der ich sehr herzlich einlade. Wer vorbeikommen möchte, kann mir gerne per DM oder Kommentar Bescheid geben, ich würde mich sehr freuen, mit Euch beim anschliessenden Apéro anzustossen!
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We're pleased to announce our upcoming series:
"AI and the Digital"
convened and hosted by Dr. Audrey Borowski
featuring @hannesbajohr.de, Nicholas Carr, Renee DiResta, @cameronbuckner.bsky.social, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Nicholas Halmi, and @shannonvallor.bsky.social.
#PhilSky #PhilEvent #PhilTech
"AI and the Digital"
convened and hosted by Dr. Audrey Borowski
featuring @hannesbajohr.de, Nicholas Carr, Renee DiResta, @cameronbuckner.bsky.social, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Nicholas Halmi, and @shannonvallor.bsky.social.
#PhilSky #PhilEvent #PhilTech
March 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We're pleased to announce our upcoming series:
"AI and the Digital"
convened and hosted by Dr. Audrey Borowski
featuring @hannesbajohr.de, Nicholas Carr, Renee DiResta, @cameronbuckner.bsky.social, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Nicholas Halmi, and @shannonvallor.bsky.social.
#PhilSky #PhilEvent #PhilTech
"AI and the Digital"
convened and hosted by Dr. Audrey Borowski
featuring @hannesbajohr.de, Nicholas Carr, Renee DiResta, @cameronbuckner.bsky.social, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Nicholas Halmi, and @shannonvallor.bsky.social.
#PhilSky #PhilEvent #PhilTech
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I am hiring a postdoc! Excellent research support, minimal teaching load, and an overall wonderful set up. The research focus is flexible as long as some part of your practice involves critical making or hands-on research in some form. (1/3)
January 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I am hiring a postdoc! Excellent research support, minimal teaching load, and an overall wonderful set up. The research focus is flexible as long as some part of your practice involves critical making or hands-on research in some form. (1/3)
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With input from friends, I’ve made a starter pack of early-career researchers across digital geography, STS, and critical AI studies. It isn’t meant to be definitive or exhaustive (though somewhat arbitrary at this stage), so please feel free to comment your own or others’ names for inclusion!
November 26, 2024 at 12:46 PM
With input from friends, I’ve made a starter pack of early-career researchers across digital geography, STS, and critical AI studies. It isn’t meant to be definitive or exhaustive (though somewhat arbitrary at this stage), so please feel free to comment your own or others’ names for inclusion!
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The Journal of Continental Philosophy has just published my latest article, “The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI”.
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
November 18, 2024 at 4:32 PM
The Journal of Continental Philosophy has just published my latest article, “The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI”.
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
Reposted by Lars Pinkwart
Welcome to the age of the geolocated statistical world picture: «By training an AI model on millions of geolocated images from around the world, the model will be able to predict its immediate environment in the same way an LLM is able to produce coherent and convincing sentences ...»
Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World
Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.
www.404media.co
November 19, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Welcome to the age of the geolocated statistical world picture: «By training an AI model on millions of geolocated images from around the world, the model will be able to predict its immediate environment in the same way an LLM is able to produce coherent and convincing sentences ...»
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This is such an interesting argument that LLMs learn “rare” events and syntax by generalisation from the more common (ie not simply from memorization or repetition of training). As ever, we should take seriously the challenge for social & political critique. The rare event is differently constituted
Chuffed our paper @kanishka.bsky.social on using “controlled rearing” to learn the “a beautiful five days in Miami” arxiv.org/abs/2403.19827 construction won an EMNLP Outstanding Paper Award! And delighted that the ACL community saw fit to recognize a paper about an odd little ling construction.
Language Models Learn Rare Phenomena from Less Rare Phenomena: The Case of the Missing AANNs
Language models learn rare syntactic phenomena, but the extent to which this is attributable to generalization vs. memorization is a major open question. To that end, we iteratively trained transforme...
arxiv.org
November 15, 2024 at 5:11 PM
This is such an interesting argument that LLMs learn “rare” events and syntax by generalisation from the more common (ie not simply from memorization or repetition of training). As ever, we should take seriously the challenge for social & political critique. The rare event is differently constituted
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Yesterday, a journalist asked me if I thought we were on a "path to AGI".
I replied that I thought AGI would be "redefined into existence" by big companies.
I didn't realize that would happen so soon.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/t...
I replied that I thought AGI would be "redefined into existence" by big companies.
I didn't realize that would happen so soon.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/t...
October 18, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Yesterday, a journalist asked me if I thought we were on a "path to AGI".
I replied that I thought AGI would be "redefined into existence" by big companies.
I didn't realize that would happen so soon.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/t...
I replied that I thought AGI would be "redefined into existence" by big companies.
I didn't realize that would happen so soon.
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/t...
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Very much looking forward to this event: «AS WE MAY SEE. Tracking and Tracing the Image after Farocki», Oct. 30 - Nov. 1 in Zurich, organized by the Farocki Forum at the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Arts and Cultural Theory (UZH and ZHdK)
October 12, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Very much looking forward to this event: «AS WE MAY SEE. Tracking and Tracing the Image after Farocki», Oct. 30 - Nov. 1 in Zurich, organized by the Farocki Forum at the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Arts and Cultural Theory (UZH and ZHdK)
My new article is out in UMBAU: "Resilient Models. Training on Volatility": umbau.hfg-karlsruhe.de/posts/resili...
Resilient Models. Training on Volatility – Umbau
In the training of AI models, resilience has become a central benchmark for a model’s ability to adapt to and learn from volatility.
umbau.hfg-karlsruhe.de
October 11, 2024 at 1:54 PM
My new article is out in UMBAU: "Resilient Models. Training on Volatility": umbau.hfg-karlsruhe.de/posts/resili...