AI + Art Conversations with Rohini Devasher & Omar W. Nasim. Moderator, Adrian Notz

In June 2023, as part of the Zurich Art Weekend, The AI + Art Conversations, an initiative by Curator Adrian Notz (ETH AI Center), took center stage at the opening events in the collaborative exhibition with Liat Grayver, (Junior Fellow, Collegium Helveticum) "Data Alchemy-Observing Patterns from Galileo to Artificial Intelligence."
Our guests - Rohini Devasher & Omar W. Nasim took part in an engaging recorded discussion-an intriguing convergence of science and art, delving into the ways humanity observes the skies, searching for patterns and meanings.
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Rohini Devasher is a trained painter and printmaker working in a variety of media including video, prints, and site-specific drawings. Her current research brings together her interest in early scientific observational instruments and contemporary observational sciences, specifically astronomy and atmospheric sciences, to study the twin aspects of the Earth‘s skies: its celestial constants on one hand and the mutable objects of the atmosphere on the other. Rohini has been an artist in residence at the Spencer Museum of Art (2016), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (2014), Glasgow Print Studio (2014), The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2012) and the Anthropocene Campus II at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (2016). In 2018, she spent 26 days as artist in residence on board an oil tanker as part of the Owners Cabin Residency Program. 2023 she is artist in residence at Arts at CERN in Geneva.
Omar W. Nasim is an award-winning historian of science. Currently, he holds the Professorship in the History of Science at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He is a specialist in the visual, cultural, and material histories of science and technology in modern Western Europe, USA, and Great Britain. Nasim has held fellowships with the Vossius Center for History of Humanities and Sciences in Amsterdam, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florence, the Newton International Fellowship at Oxford University, the Chair for Science Studies at the ETH-Zurich, the NCCR’s Iconic Criticism project at the University of Basel, and the DAAD graduate exchange fellowship at the University of Konstanz.