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LECTURE | "Artisanal Intelligences," by Katherine Behar

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November 13, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
TBD

This lecture is part of the Global Arts + Humanities' Society of Fellows 2025-26 event series, "Artificial Intelligence: Propositions from the Arts + Humanities."

Katherine Behar is a professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, where she heads the New Media Arts program and runs New Media Artspace. She will present excerpts from Inside Outsourcing, a multimodal project that takes the impossibility of robots making baskets as an opportunity to cultivate human/nonhuman cooperation. Behar suggests that basketry’s unique resistance to automation involves its tactile and taciturn refusal to speak — that is, to explain itself, to reduce itself by becoming simply an instruction set. Artisanal Intelligences accounts for how basketry departs from the mutual histories of fiber arts, computation and labor struggles over the automation of work. 

Moderator: Kris Paulsen, Associate Professor of History of Art