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.
