ERC AImodels

21/05/2026

Next week, Matteo Pasquinelli and Tommaso Guariento will be presenting a talk titled 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴, 𝘙𝘩𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴: 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 at the conference 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘤𝘰, hosted by the University of the Bologna.

Don't miss them at the panel on Semiotics and AI:

📅 27 May 2026
🕙 4:30–6:30 pm
📍 Salone Marescotti (palazzo Marescotti) - Department of the Arts, Via Barberia 4, Bologna

𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲: https://eventi.unibo.it/conference-umberto-eco-2026

Poster from the conference website

30/04/2026

Next week, the ERC project AIMODELS will host the launch of e-flux issue 162, 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘓𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳, 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘈𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

📅 5 May 2026
🕙 4:30–6:00 pm
📍 Aula Mario Baratto, Dorsoduro 3246, Venezia

Responding to the intensification of “military operations” in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran, this special issue of e-flux journal advocates for a return to a materialist genealogy of “operativism”—a concept that spans labor politics and scientific management throughout the twentieth century, from the Soviet avant-gardes to postwar cybernetics to modern warfare and the multiple interpretations of Harun Farocki’s “operational images.”

[From the Editorial by Matteo Pasquinelli and Elena Vogman]

With:

𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗼 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶, Ca’ Foscari University,
ERC project AIMODELS

𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗩𝗼𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗻, Bauhaus University Weimar, e-flux journal

𝗢𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗶 𝗞𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆𝗶, eikones, University of Basel

𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗶𝘁, curator of the Czech and Slovak Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, e-flux journal

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝘂𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮, curator of the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale

19/03/2026

𝗔 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀𝗰 𝗧𝗼𝘀𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆

📅 20 March 2026
🕙 12:15 - 13:45
📍 Polo didattico San Basilio, Aula 2L (Magazzino 4) Dorsoduro, Salizada S. Basegio, Venezia.

Tomorrow, the 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥 course will host Carles Guerra, curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 61st Biennale di Venezia.

The lecture will feature a presentation of archival materials on the work of Francesc Tosquelles and the tradition of institutional psychotherapy, followed by a discussion with students.

The talk will be in English.

09/03/2026

[ENG below]

Questa settimana, Bernardo Paci presenterà la sua nuova monografia 𝘈 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, in cui traccia le origini della divisione del lavoro cognitivo nella dominazione coloniale delle popolazioni indigene americane.

📅 12/03/2026
🕙 15:45
📍 Aula Mazzariol (III piano), Malcanton Marcorà, Dorsoduro 3484/D, Venezia

Ne discuteranno con l’autore Matteo Benussi, Valentina Bonifacio e Mattia Brancato. L’evento si terrà in italiano.

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This week Bernardo Paci will present his new monograph 𝘈 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, in which he traces the origins of the division of cognitive labor to the colonial domination of Indigenous populations in the Americas.

📅 12 March 2026
🕙 15:45
📍Aula Mazzariol (3rd floor), Malcanton Marcorà, Dorsoduro 3484/D, Venice

Matteo Benussi, Valentina Bonifacio, and Mattia Brancato will discuss the book with the author. The event will be held in Italian.

03/03/2026

𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗼 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗮: 𝗗𝗲𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝘇𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲

📅 Martedì 6 marzo
🕙 12:15
📍 Aula 2L Polo didattico San Basilio - Tesa 4 Dorsoduro, Salizada S. Basegio, Venezia

[ENG Below]

Questa settimana, il corso di 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘔𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦 tenuto da Matteo Pasquinelli a Ca' Foscari ospiterà Franco Basaglia, nipote dell'omonimo psichiatra e curatore dell'archivio Basaglia.

La lezione si concentrerà sulla proiezione di materiali d’archivio e discussione con studenti e studentesse sul percorso di Franco Basaglia, dalla formazione filosofica alle pratiche psichiatriche.

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This week, the 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥 course taught by Matteo Pasquinelli at Ca' Foscari University of Venice will host Franco Basaglia, nephew of the psychiatrist of the same name and curator of the Basaglia Archive.

The lecture will focus on the screening of archival materials and a discussion with students on Franco Basaglia’s trajectory, from his philosophical training to his psychiatric practice.

28/02/2026

For the next session of our seminar series 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗜, Mathieu Corteel will present his new book 𝘕𝘪 𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘶 𝘯𝘪 𝘐𝘈. 𝘜𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘭’𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦 (La Découverte, Paris: 2025), in conversation with Giovanni Fava and Tommaso Guariento from the AIMODELS team.

The event will be held in English and will take place both online and in person.

📅 Date: Tuesday, 3rd March
🕙 Time: 16.00–18.00 (Rome time)

📍 In person:
Ca’ Foscari University — Aula Valent, 4th floor, Malcanton-Marcorà
Dorsoduro 3484/D, Venice

💻 Remote:
Gmeet link: meet.google.com/ihf-entv-jit

We look forward to seeing you there!

18/02/2026

Monday Colloquium | IFP

📍 Nehru Room
🗓 24 February 2026
⏰ 3:00–4:00pm

On Tuesday, 24 February, Lorenzo De Lellis will give a talk at the French Institute of Pondicherry titled 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘐 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢.

The lecture explores how India’s long-standing BPO and IT-enabled services sectors have laid the foundations for today’s AI data labeling and model training work. By tracing the continuity between call centers, platform-based labor and outsourcing infrastructures, it will offer a historical perspective on the evolution of digital labor in India.

24/01/2026

The AIMODELS team is about to expand once again, as the call for 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 is now open!

The 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 for applications is 𝟮 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗮𝘁 𝟭:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺 𝗖𝗘𝗧, and the expected starting date for both positions is around 1 March 2026.

The 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 is associated with a research project investigating the role of the paradigms of intellectual disability and language pathology in the history of AI. Bringing together disability studies, translation studies, philosophy of language, and critical AI research, the project explores how notions of normalcy, ability, and intelligence have informed the design and evaluation of language technologies, including current Large Language Models.

The 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 is linked to a research project that investigates the history of AI and deep learning through an interdisciplinary and critical approach, examining the evolution of the statistical techniques at the core of AI and how they have shaped paradigms of the mind across disciplines. Drawing on methods from historical epistemology and ethnography, the project traces the circulation of ideas between computer science, statistics, psychology, and neuroscience, with particular attention to the Free Energy Principle and related constructs.

𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸: https://pric.unive.it/projects/team

22/01/2026

Our symposyum 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙜𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙢: 𝙆𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙊𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧, organised in collaboration with the Centre of Critical Theory and Politics (CCTP) at Ca' Foscari University, will take place in less than two weeks!

The 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 is now online: www.unive.it/worldalgorithm

📆2-3 February 2026
📍Trentin Hall, Sestiere Dorsoduro, 3859a, 30125 Venezia VE, Italia

𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀: Grégoire Chamayou, Ben Tarnoff, Moira Weigel, Cédric Durand and Cecilia Rikap.

The symposium will examine why and how the current economic and geopolitical crisis has unfolded, focusing on the role of technological monopolies and in particular AI in a global scenario marked by trends of de-industrialisation and stagnation. On one level, we have witnessed the rise of global monopolies of knowledge extractivism and AI that threaten labour market, democratic order, and geopolitical equilibria between East and West.

On another level, however, it is necessary to interrogate whether these new technological monopolies (including AI) contribute to a crisis of valorisation rather than to productivity. Seeking an exit from the crisis, Silicon Valley companies have forged new alliances with authoritarian politics and have even enlisted AI models as battlegrounds of new cultural wars — a stark contradiction of their liberal rhetoric of the 1990s. The vector of the crisis appears increasingly politicised. Ultimately, the rise of authoritarian politics in Silicon Valley and beyond calls into question the narrative of neoliberalism as a liberation from the political

14/01/2026

𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗦 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮

Tomorrow afternoon, Matteo Pasquinelli will give a lecture at Duke Kunshan University, in China’s Jiangsu province. Drawing on our research team’s perspective, which understands AI as a technology intended to formalize the intelligence of the division of labour and social organization rather than to imitate biological intelligence, the lecture will further investigate the notions of 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴-𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 and 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴-𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 developed by the Chinese philosopher Wang Hui. The dialogue between these perspectives can help clarify how AI reshapes social organization today and enable thinking across Chinese and Western approaches to AI.

📍𝗗𝘂𝗸𝗲 𝗞𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗟𝗜𝗕𝟭𝟭𝟭𝟯
🕕𝟲 𝗽𝗺 - 𝟳.𝟯𝟬 𝗽𝗺 𝗖𝗦𝗧

AI models have left their infancy as techniques of pattern recognition and, over the span of a decade, have become vast representations of entire cultural and