On 4-5 June 2026, the Machine Visual Culture group will host ‘Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Computation’, a two day conference, at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, in Rome.  The conference examines noise across machine learning, information theory, media theory, aesthetics, art history, philosophy, and practice-based research.  It brings together scholars and practitioners to ask how noise functions not only as error or disruption, but also as a condition of invention, difference, and transformation.  The workshop is coorganised by Violaine Boutet de Monvel, Eryk Salvaggio,and Amira Moeding.

Dr Impett will chair a panel on ‘Programmed Aesthetics’.

Dr Heuser will chair a panel on ‘Soft Images’.  He will also speak on ‘The Statistical Unconscious: Noise, Desire, and the Law of AI Alignment’ as part of a panel on ‘Noisy LLMs’.

Link to further information about this conference: https://www.biblhertz.it/events/45629/2598514