Violaine Boutet de Monvel

Chaos ↑ Art as noise magnification ↓ Collapse

  • Black Hole | Black Box: Limits, Opacity, and the Unknown Across Art, Science, and Media

    International conference co-organised with Nina Caviezel, Ellen Charlesworth, Sebastian Rozenberg, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, 19-20 March 2026. Collaboration between the Machine Visual Culture research group and the Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions research group.

  • Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Computation

    Call for papers (deadline 16 March 2026), international conference co-organised with Eryk Salvaggio and Amira Moeding, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, 4-5 June 2026.

  • Art as noise magnification: a recursive approach to aesthetics between chaos and collapse

    Paper at the Machine Visual Culture x Cambridge Digital humanities, workshop, University of Cambridge, King’s College, Audit Room, 26 January 2026, 13:30-16:00.

  • Temporalities of AI

    Call for papers (deadline 2 February 2026), international conference co-organised with Alessandro Trevisan, Eryk Salvaggio, Leonardo Impett, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, 20-21 April 2026.

  • Vision as Collapse: A Typology of Recursive Forms from the Avant-Gardes to Generative AI

    Critical AI Seminar, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Sitzungssaal, 22 September 2025, 15:00-17:00.