artifices
artifices: technology, thought, art

artifices: technology, thought, art

artifices – 6th Ereignis Conference – sets out to examine artificial intelligence as alterity, desiring-machine, and symbolic force that reorganises human subjectivity, labour, and planetary life. Drawing on philosophies from Levinas and Sartre to Lacan, Deleuze and Guattari, we question the natural/artificial binary and ask whether thinking machines represent a radical ethical encounter or algorithmic reduction of the Other.

Key questions include:

  • How does the symbolic distinction between the “natural” body and the “artificial” cyborg create new circuits of desire and lack
  • How do AI and LLMs act as desiring-machines reconfiguring affects and subjectivity beyond the thermodynamics of information?
  • Does AI manifest Alterity itself, or does it annul the possibility of unconditional hospitality?

The 6th interdisciplinary Ereignis conference will take place on August 8 and 9, 2026 at Hotel Nadmorski in Gdynia, Poland, with a hybrid option for those unable to attend in person. Registration will be required.

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Keynote speakers
  • Prof. Levi R. Bryant, Collin College, US: “The Closing of the Unconscious: Connaissance, Savoir, and the New Technology” (Abstract)
  • Prof. Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, KR: “Spirit Is Data: AI, Infinite Judgement, and the Society of Control” (Abstract)
  • Assistant Prof. Jan Overwijk, University for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, NL: “Artificial, incommunicable: the cybernetic rationalization of work” (Abstract)
  • Prof. Jørgen Veisland, University of Gdańsk, PL: “Claude‘s Constitution: Matter and form as artifice“ (Abstract)
Art workshop
  • Liv Tsim, Northumbria University, UK: “Learning with Microbes in the Age of E‑waste“ (Abstract)
Details

Sessions: Papers are timed to 20 minutes and followed by a Q&A with the audience. Each session is moderated.

Registration is required.

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Organisers: This event is hosted by Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts and Inscriptions — a journal for contemporary thinking on art, philosophy and psycho-analysis.

More information about travelling to Gdynia, Poland, visa requirements, accommodation, and some information for those travelling with families.

Read the full Call for Abstracts.