V&A Pre-histories and Futures of Machine Vision Symposium Friday, 28 February 2020, 10.30 – 17.00 Hochhauser Auditorium, V&A Museum, South Kensington, London, UK How do machines see? From autonomous vehicles to deep fakes, machine vision is changing contemporary life. Join curators, artists and scholars to discuss the impact of computer vision and AI technologies on the past, present and future of art and design. The symposium will explore early moments in the development of computer art, from the mid-1960s onwards, viewing these first experiments in transforming number-crunching computers into image generating machines as a kind of pre-history of machine vision. It will also bring together contemporary artists, designers and curators considering the aesthetic and political implications of contemporary computer vision and machine learning technologies. Their creative and critical projects are shaping our understanding of these technologies, while highlighting the social and ethical concerns they raise. Home to the UK’s most important historic computer art collections and a museum undertaking ground-breaking explorations of contemporary digital culture and design, the V&A is an ideal place to hold this discussion. Speakers include: digital scholars Zabet Patterson (Stony Brook) and Joel McKim (Birkbeck), V&A curators Douglas Dodds and Natalie Kane, and contemporary artists and designers Anna Ridler, Tobias Revell and Alan Warburton. Register at: https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/15jOPmEm/pre-histories-and-futures-of-machine-vi...