ChatGPT, Datenpoesie und alternative Zukünfte

Artificially generated texts, images and voices have become omnipresent. How will the world of work, education, art and literature change? The author and computer scientist Jörg Piringer and the media theorist Paul Feigelfeld offer forecasts for the immediate future of technical developments and their effects on our society.

Jörg Piringer is a pioneer in the field of electronic poetry. He works with various forms of digital art. In his most recent book verbrenner he plays with facts and fictions and carries this game to the extreme by employing Artificial Intelligence. In his edition “Cheap Intelligence” (günstige intelligenz) he documents his experiments with GPT models and puts them in the context of “automatic writing” within 20th-century modernism.

The media scientist Paul Feigelfeld focuses on how Artificial Intelligence is changing our society. What content should be involved in an ethics of Artificial Intelligence? How could the impending techno-fascism be prevented? And what happens with us, if all online content could also be an AI fake?

***BIOGRAPHIES***

Jörg Piringer
b. 1974. Author, musician, artist and computer scientist. He works in the fields of electronic music, radio art, sound poetry, virtual poetry, interactive collaborative systems, online communities, performance, acoustic installation, computer games, video art and poetic software. Recently published: verbrenner, Ritterverlag 2025.

Paul Feigelfeld
b. 1979. Culture and media scientist. He is Professor of Digitality and Cultural Pedagogy (Media Studies) at the Institute for Open Arts of Mozarteum University. His work explores transcultural approaches to media and knowledge history, critical perspectives on technologies and their interfaces with art and design.