Languages of AI
Organized by Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures
in cooperation with the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL)
When machines process and produce language,
what philosophical frameworks help us understand their operations?
Philosophers M. Beatrice Fazi and Anna
Longo bring contemporary philosophical perspectives to AI, interrogating how computational systems construct
meaning beyond human categories. This dialogue explores whether large language models constitute new semiotic agents, challenging
anthropocentric assumptions about thinking and linguistic possibility.
18.00 - 19:30
Presentations
and conversation: M. Beatrice Fazi & Anna Longo
20.00 - 20:30
Sound performance: Dario Sanfilippo
M. Beatrice Fazi is a philosopher working on computation, technology, and media. Her research focuses
on the ontologies and epistemologies produced by contemporary technoscience. She has published extensively on the limits and
potentialities of the computational method, on digital aesthetics, and on the automation of thought. She is Associate Professor
at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom), the author of Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and
Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics (2018), and co-author of Digital Theory (2025).
Anna Longo is a philosopher affiliated to the University of Paris. Her research crosses the
philosophy of technology, French post-structuralism and aesthetics. She is author of two books: The Game of Induction:
Automatisation of Knowledge and Philosophical Reflection (Mimesis 2022) and Deleuze, A Philosophy of Multiplicity (Ellipses
2024).
Dario Sanfilippo is a composer, performer, audio programmer, and researcher specialised
in musical complex adaptive systems. He has a PhD in Creative Music Practice from the University of Edinburgh and his artistic
research focuses on the exploration of new music through artificial intelligence (in the broadest sense) and artificial life
implemented via adaptive audio feedback networks. His work combines principles of agency, autopoiesis, evolvability, and radical
constructivism to design systems that are deployed in live performance for human-machine interaction or autonomous music.
