Fabian Offert

Asst Professor of History & Theory of Digital Humanities & Artificial Intelligence (Germanic & Slavic Studies)

UCSB Comparative Literature, Faculty Affiliate

UCSB Media Arts & Technology, Faculty Affiliate

Center for Responsible Machine Learning (CRML), Faculty Affiliate

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Fabian Offert's research and teaching focuses on the digital/computational humanities, with a special interest in the epistemology of artificial intelligence, and its intersection with art and literature. His dissertation (UCSB, 2020) examines artificial neural networks as image making machines.

Before joining the faculty at UCSB, Fabian was Postdoctoral Researcher in the research project "Synthetic Images as a Means of Knowledge Production" (DFG SPP 2172) at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Affiliated Researcher in the Artificial Intelligence and Media Philosophy Research Group at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. His research was supported by fellowships from the German National Academic Foundation and the Regents of the University of California. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

Previously, he worked for a number of German cultural institutions, among others ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Goethe-Institut New York, and Ruhrtriennale Festival of the Arts. His interdisciplinary projects have been supported by grants from Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Kunststiftung NRW, the French Ministry of Culture, and other national and international funding agencies.