Day 1 – Thursday

Participants

 

Ada Ackerman est chargée de recherches au CNRS (THALIM). Historienne de l’art, elle s’intéresse aux croisements entre les arts, aux circulations culturelles entre Europe, Etats-Unis et ex-URSS ainsi qu’aux entrelacements entre humains et non-humains. Parmi ses dernières publications figurent The Endless Library of Sergei Eisenstein (2025, avec Naum Kleiman) et Bibliothèques à l’épreuve de la scène (2025, avec Béatrice Picon-Vallin).

Elle exerce aussi comme commissaire d’expositions : Golem ! Avatars d’une légende d’argile (MAHJ, Paris, 2017) ; L’Oeil extatique. Eisenstein, cinéaste à la croisée des arts (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2019) ; Mirabil-IA. Quand l’IA métamorphose la création (Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, 2024) ; Le Monde selon l’IA (Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2025).

 

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Moritz Riesewieck (born 1985) is a German author, director and founding member of the artistic group Laokoon, known for its spectacular artistic data doubleganger experiment Made to Measure (2021).

His investigative debut film The Cleaners about the shadow industry of digital content moderators in Manila which he developed and directed with Hans Block celebrated its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 and has since been screened at more than 70 international film festivals, in cinemas and on TV worldwide. It was nominated for an Emmy and the German Television Award and has received numerous international awards, including the Prix Europa for the Best European TV documentary 2018 and the Grimme Audience Award 2019. Their TED talk on freedom of expression in times of social networks (2019) has reached an audience of millions. In 2020 their book Die digitale Seele (The Digital Soul) was published by German publishing house Goldmann Verlag and was later translated into several foreign languages. In 2024 their second feature documentary Eternal You about AI simulations of deceased people was in competition for the best international documentary film at the Sundance Film Festival and was since shown at film festivals and on TV in numerous countries.

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Nouf Aljowaysir is a visual artist whose practice critically examines the role of algorithmic “intelligence” in shaping personal and collective constructions of selfhood and historical knowledge. Working across photography, performance, and moving image, she creates narratives that move between archival materials and digital speculation, questioning how technologies shape and reduce the understanding of identity, memory and particularly non-Western histories.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as Jeu de Paume, Photo Elysée, Centre Pompidou, M+ Museum, Gazelli Art House, CPH:DOX, and the Tribeca Film Festival, among others. Her projects have appeared in publications including Fisheye Magazine, Slanted Magazine, and the British Journal of Photography. She has participated in panels and given lectures with Rhizome, KADIST, The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), and the TechArt Online Conference at Chung-Ang University. Aljowaysir has also been featured in major media outlets such as Le Monde, BBC Culture, The New York Times, Forbes, and Le Quotidien de l’Art. Her film Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?) won the 2023 Lumen Prize for Moving Image and was released by The New York Times Op-Docs series in June 2024.