Monday, January 26, 2026, 7 p.m.
at the Museum Ludwig cinema

Art in Context #66
Artistic versus Artificial Intelligence. On the critique of artificial creativity
Lecture by Dieter Mersch (in German)

Admission is free. We kindly request that you register in advance.

Art production using AI systems is booming. AI-generated works are achieving impressive results at auctions held by major art houses. Is this something that can be called “art”? Can machines be creative? Since AI systems are primarily mathematical machines whose limits are defined by what can be mathematized, the question is: Can art-making be reduced to computational processes?

Dieter Mersch studied mathematics and philosophy. From 2004 to 2013, he was Professor of Media Theory and Media Studies at the University of Potsdam. He then headed the Institute for Theory at the Zurich University of the Arts as Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics until 2021.

“Art in Context” is a lecture series of the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig and is generously made possible by Flossbach von Storch SE.

With the kind support of Dorint Hotel am Heumarkt Köln and Wein- und Sektgut Reverchon.

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