Dr. S. (Selena) Savić
- Turfdraagsterpad 15
- Kamernummer: 1.04
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About
I am an Assistant Professor for Proto-history of Artificial Intelligence and Machines in the Arts at the University of Amsterdam. After a PhD at EPFL and an SNSF-funded postdoc at ATTP, TU Vienna, I was a senior researcher and the Head of the Make/Sense PhD programme at the Basel Academy of Art and Design. My recent publications include two edited volumes, Radio Explorations, and Teaching Artistic Strategies, 2024, transcript Verlag. I research, teach and write about digital archives, computational modelling, feminist materialism and posthuman networks in the context of art, design and architecture. My research interests animate a practice at the intersection of computational processes and posthumanist and postcolonial critique of technology. My current research addresses data and measurement, offering a generative perspective on the interrelations between technicity for making and circulating art.
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Research
I propose a protohistory of AI inspired by generative genealogy as a materialist geophilosophical practice that is critical and creative. The generative view enfolds, on the one hand, the concern for machine-based automated creation (as in generative art) while, on the other, offering a genealogical approach to material history of AI: one which traces nonlinear generation of digital artificial intelligence techniques of automation and mechanization, and provides a window into the surprising futures, to take up the words of Iris van der Tuin and Rossi Braidotti. Protohistory of AI will not aspire to an indefinite linear teleology, or a metahistorical locus of its ‘origin’, but instead proceed by a methodology of jumping generations and challenging of the linear cutting up of time into successive fragments, inspired by feminist new materialism and an interdisciplinary approach to digital humanities.
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Teaching
I teach in the new BA programme Global Arts, Culture and Politics where I also co-coordinate the major The Human and Artificial Intelligence, . I also teach give a course in the Research MA Art and Performance Research Studies.
List of courses in 2024-25: https://studiegids.uva.nl/xmlpages/page/2024-2025-en/search-lecturer/lecturer/13017
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Publicaties
2024
Kargın, F., King, D., & Savić, S. (Eds.) (2024). Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity. (Image; Vol. 248). transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839473344 [details]- Savić, S. (2024). Architectonic Explorations of Radio. In S. Savić (Ed.), Radio Explorations: Architectonic Studies of Electromagnetic Milieux (pp. 15-24). (Media Studies; Vol. 112). transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839473375-002 [details]
- Savić, S. (2024). Teaching More-than-human Invitation in Artistic Research and Pedagogy. In F. Kargın, D. King, & S. Savić (Eds.), Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity (pp. 143-161). (Image; Vol. 248). transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839473344-009 [details]
- Savić, S. (2024). The Urban, The Classified, the Coupled. In S. Savić (Ed.), Radio Explorations: Architectonic Studies of Electromagnetic Milieux (pp. 143-152). (Media Studies; Vol. 112). transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839473375-017 [details]
- Savić, S. (Ed.) (2024). Radio Explorations: Architectonic Studies of Electromagnetic Milieux. (Media Studies; Vol. 112). transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839473375 [details]
2023
- Savić, S. (2023). Techno-optimism and optimization in media architecture practice and theory. Digital Creativity, 34(2), 88-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2023.2200770
- Savić, S., & Martins, Y. P. (2023). Making Arguments with Data. Resisting Appropriation and Assumption of Access/Reason in Machine Learning Training Processes. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 3(2), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/3.2.4
2022
- Savić, S. (2022). Articulating Nomadic Identities of Radio Signals. Matter Journal of New Materialist Research, 3(1), 56-81. https://doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v3i1.38959
- Savić, S. (2022). Pixels and Bandwidth: On Imaginaries of Travel in Data. In ON THE INTERPLAY OF IMAGES: Imaginaries and Imagination in Science Communication (SCIENTIA atque USUS. Scientia ed., Vol. 3, pp. 111-121). Olschki.
- Savić, S., & Grant, S. (2022). Slime Mold and Network Imaginaries: An Experimental Approach to Communication. Leonardo, 55(5), 462-467. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02248
2021
- Savić, S., & Miyazaki, S. (2021). Modulating Matters of Computation, Modelling and Hyper-Separations. In Proceedings of Polititcs of the machines - Rogue Research 2021: Berlin, Germany (pp. 63-68). (Electronic Workshops in Computing). BCS Learning and Development. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/POM2021.8
Spreker
- Savić, S. (speaker) (8-5-2024). Generative Pasts of AI, Art Meets Radical Openness 2024, Linz.
Andere
- Savić, S. (participant) (17-7-2024). EASST/4S Conference, Amsterdam, Amsterdam. The (im)possible Bodies of Data. Fictioning Generative Embodiment in Large Language ModelsThis research explores the formation of 'knowledge bodies' (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Savić, S. (chair) (16-7-2024). EASST/4S Conference, Amsterdam, Amsterdam. Decolonizing Digital Archives was a Continuing Education programme offered by Flavia Claviezel, Lucie Kolb, Karolina Sobecka, Bernhard Garnicnig, (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
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Geen nevenwerkzaamheden
Kargın, F., King, D., & Savić, S. (Eds.) (2024). Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity. (Image; Vol. 248). transcript.