CLOSE AD ×

University of Texas Lecture Series: Karel Klein

Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

University of Texas Lecture Series: Karel Klein

April 3, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT

Free

Join The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture for a lecture with Karel Klein on Monday, April 3rd at 12:30 p.m. A recording will be available on the Texas Architecture YouTube channel following the live event.

Karel Klein is an architect and educator who has been working with various AI technologies since 2016. Her ongoing project is an investigation into crossbred image-objects produced using atypically trained GANs (generative adversarial networks) and their capacity for contemporary myth-making in architecture. In the same way that imaginative vocabulary and metaphoric style were primary, if literary instruments for the invention of new mythologies for the Surrealists, the strange and idiosyncratic qualities of images produced using AI are similarly a kind of matter metaphor-ed and made visible by the cyborg imagination. With these tools, Karel is interested in the re-enchantment of the architectural body—one that both foments and succumbs to sensual perceptions, and one that discovers new and unexpected relations to the world beyond the realm of the rational. Her work in this realm has been exhibited at the 2021 Venice Biennale; the FRAC Institute, Orleans, France; Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis; and SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles. Recent essays in pursuit of this work include “Verto Pellis” in Offramp, issue 17; “Machines are Braver than Art” in “Rendering Fiction,” Paprika!, volume 7, issue 8; and “Machines À Rechercher,” in Log 55, summer 2022. Karel teaches currently at Washington University, University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

This lecture is supported by the Karl Kamrath Lectureship in Architecture.

Details

Date:
April 3, 2023
Time:
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT
Cost:
Free

Organizer

UTSOA
Phone
5124711922
Email
cagallagher10802@utexas.edu
View Organizer Website

Venue

Goldsmith Auditorium
310 Inner Campus Drive
Austin, TX 78712 United States
+ Google Map
Phone
5124711922
CLOSE AD ×