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Smile to Vote: Screenshot of the fictitious company website

Photo (detail): © Alexander Peterhaensel 2017

Smile to Vote
A smile please... you have voted!

The media art project “Smile to Vote” revolves around a voting booth that scans faces and automates the vote-casting process. Its originator, artist Alexander Peterhaensel, criticises the increasing encroachment of technology on privacy.

God is a Gigabyte

Are machines really learning to think? In his latest book, Robert Feustel demonstrates how we have elevated digitalisation to a religion.

Interfaces + big data = artificial intelligence

Photo: Cultura/Andrew Brookes © plainpicture

Goodbye to classroom teaching?
Artificial intelligence in language learning

Artificial intelligence is on the rise – as can be seen not only from the growing popularity of dialogue systems like Alexa. However, some key criteria still need to be met before it can serve as a substitute for a real-life language teacher: spontaneity, creativity and shared knowledge.

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in Ireland

Traces of Resistance

a Flaneur project by Fabian Saul

Freiraum

Freiraum deals with the concept of freedom, which has been of fundamental relevance to European cultural history and European self-understanding ever since the Enlightenment.

Picture Politics

A joint project of several Goethe-Instituts bringing together comic artists and illustrators dealing with topics like immigration, stereotypes and prejudices, about foreignness.

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Talk: Dan Adler: Isa Genzken at the Venice Biennale

Lunchtime Concert: Deirdre Moynihan (Soprano) & RTÉ Contempo Quartet "Sounds secretly coming to life"

Reading: Writing Culture and AI

Reading: Leif Randt - Heinrich Böll Memorial Weekend, Achill Island

Dance Performance: W.A.M. We are Monchichi

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