Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 ATEK-639/439 Fall 2025 Scott Benzel, Labs: Eric Kaplin
Mondays 1-3:50 A211H
“Whatever else AI is, it is not neutral, and neither can we be. AI is political because it acts in the world in ways that affect the…This course examines whether artists employing machine learning, generative algorithms, predictive models, and other technics–tools of what Deleuze called “the Societies of Control”– can make art that is evocative, powerful, critical, perha…
Dan McQuillan
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Dan McQuillan is an AI theorist and activist known for developing an anti-fascist framework for understanding and resisting artificial intelligence systems, particularly their role in concentrating power and reproducing harm. The course draws on his work to counter the notion that AI is neutral, establishing instead that algorithmic systems are inherently political and demand critical resistance rather than uncritical adoption. McQuillan's intervention is central to the seminar's broader question of whether artists can use machine learning as a tool for genuine critique or whether engagement with these technologies inevitably reproduces the power structures they embed.
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