PhD fellowship as part of research project “The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of the Life” funded by the Velux Foundations Core Group Program.
The Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark SDU (Odense, Denmark) is offering a fully funded 3-year PhD fellowship commencing May 1, 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter).
We are looking for a candidate who is highly motivated to undertake doctoral research as part of a four-year collaborative research project funded by the Velux Foundations Core Group and headed by Professor Kathrin Maurer (SDU) and Associate Professor Kristin Veel (Copenhagen University)

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The work to be undertaken by the PhD project is designed to understand the ways how aesthetic works negotiate imaginaries of intelligent and life-animating bio-machines (such as AI, chatbots, robots). How does art (visual art, fiction, film, digital art) represent life with these new artificial smart machines and how does it address their potential life-status? While the position is embedded in disciplines of the humanities, we explicitly encourage candidates with expertise in engineering to apply. The PhD project should also address theoretical questions about the production of aesthetics generated by AI. The PhD thesis will be supervised by Professor Kathrin Maurer and is housed at the University of Southern Denmark. The thesis can take the form of a monograph, or it can be article based.
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