Information/Aesthetics Workshop

Monday 23 February 2026, 3pm-6pm
Old Arts building, Room 209
University of Melbourne, Parkville campus

This workshop brings together researchers in philosophy, media theory, and the arts to discuss critical issues at the interface of information technologies and aesthetics.

All welcome, and no booking required. 
The workshop is in-person only.

Programme:
3:00 Introduction
3:10 Timothy Deane-Freeman (Deakin), “Information Theory and The Art of Noises”
3:40 Christopher O’Neill (Monash), “Foucault and Information Theory: Noise, ‘Non-Silence’, and the Digital Mediation of the Body'
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Ashley Woodward (Dundee, UK), “Information Aesthetics and AI Art”
5:00 Jasmin Pfefferkorn (Melbourne), “Towards a New Aesthetics of Synthetic Media”
5:30 Panel Discussion

Jointly organised by the Critical Research Association Melbourne (CRAM), Coded Aesthetics, and the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy.
For enquiries, please email Ashley Woodward, a.z.woodward@dundee.ac.uk