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
- Kargin, F., King, D., & Savić, S. (2024). Introduction - Teaching artistic strategies: Playing with materiality, aesthetics and ambiguity. In Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity (pp. 7-14). Transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839473344
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). Facing Mud: On Matter-Informational Building and Writing. Convivia Filth , 1, 105-132. https://doi.org/10.34727/2024/isbn.978-3-85448-062-4_4
- 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
- Savic, 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
- 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
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
- Savic, S., Bedö, V., Büsse, M., Martins, Y., & Miyazaki, S. (2021). Toys for Conviviality. Situating Commoning, Computation and Modelling. Open Cultural Studies, 4(1), 143-153. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2020-0015
- 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
2018
- Savic, S. (2018). Measuring scarcity or balancing abundance: Some reflections on human-building interaction paradigms from an architectural perspective. In S. Konomi, & N. Streitz (Eds.), Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions: 6th International Conference, DAPI 2018 : held as part of HCI International 2018, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 15–20, 2018 : proceedings (Vol. I, pp. 264-274). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10921). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91125-0_23
- Savić, S., Magarshack, L. D. J., & Huang, J. (2018). Landscape of connectivity. Measuring and representing fluctuations in wireless network traffic in space. Automation in Construction, 89, 275-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2018.02.010
2017
- Savic, S. (2017). Designing for connectivity: Rethinking the interaction with the built environment and wireless communication infrastructure. Interaction Design and Architecture(s), 32, 48-67. https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-032-004
- Savic, S., & Bühlmann, V. (2017). Digital literacy in architecture: How space is organized by computation. In CHI'17 Extended Abstracts: proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems : May 6-11, 2017, Denver, CO, USA (pp. 2909-2914). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053237
2014
- Savic, S., & Heitor, T. (2014). Probing the network. Architecturality of wireless infrastructure. In MAB '14 - Non-Refefeed Proceedings of the 2nd Media Architecture Biennale Conference: World Cities : 2014, Aarhus, Denmark (pp. 68-77). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2682884.2682889
Prijs / subsidie
- Savić, S. (2020). Negentropic Explorations of Radio: Alloys of Matter and Information. https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/190310
- Savić, S. (2017). SNSF Early Postdoc Mobility: Architecturality. How Space is Organised by Computation.
Spreker
- Savić, S. (invited speaker) (17-12-2024). Ethical Considerations and Player Experience - AI in Video Games, Video Game Studies, Novi Sad.
- Savić, S. (speaker) (6-12-2024). Generative Pasts of AI, Rethinking the Inevitability of AI, Charlottesville.
- Savić, S. (speaker) (7-11-2024). Data Grab: How contemporary data collection practices account for her experience of the city?, Her Right to the City, Belgrade. https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/jXQbAczty8+9vmFDEHmM07AX/
- Savić, S. (keynote speaker) (5-11-2024). Confabulating with the Norm. Resisting the Apparent Inevitability of Generative AI, Coding the Gaze, Belgrade.
- Savić, S. (speaker) (17-7-2024). The (im)possible Bodies of Data. Fictioning Generative Embodiment in Large Language Models, EASST/4S Conference, Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
- Savić, S. (keynote speaker) (8-5-2024). Generative Pasts of AI, Art Meets Radical Openness 2024, Linz.
Andere
- 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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Nevenwerkzaamheden
Geen nevenwerkzaamheden
Kargın, F., King, D., & Savić, S. (Eds.) (2024). Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity. (Image; Vol. 248). transcript.