On March 13, 2025, the Department of German at UC Berkeley hosted the inaugural Sunrise Lecture on Media and Technology. The series, designed to foster cross-disciplinary discussions on the shifting dynamics of technological mediation and their broader cultural and intellectual implications, opened with a talk by Dr. Fabian Offert, Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of Digital Humanities at UC Santa Barbara.
Fabian Offert: Vector Media Presented on March 13, 2025For the inaugural Sunrise Lecture on Media and Technology, hosted by the Department of German, Dr. Fabian Offert, Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of Digital Humanities at the University of California, Santa Barbara, spoke about "Vector Media."Vector Media
The capability of neural networks to generate texts and images by learning from large amounts of data is often framed as both the most significant contribution and the most obvious flaw of contemporary artificial...
