Talks and conversations on art, artificial intelligence, memory, nature and the politics of images.
Highlights
2026 · AI · Memory
Art, AI and Memory
Seiva · 1:29:27
A masterclass on recovering histories that data does not tell, through works exploring prejudice, women erased from history and the limits of AI’s imagination.
2024 · AI · Nature
Poisonous, Noxious and Suspicious: Stories of Women, AIs and Plants
IEA-USP · Polo São Carlos · 1:43:14
Part of the Art Science Technology series, this talk brings together research on forbidden plants, women erased from history and AI-generated images, connecting art, science and a critique of colonial imaginaries.
2023 · AI · Archives
The Age of AI: Memories, Archives and Erasures
Café Filosófico CPFL · 1:34:01
AI recreations of the past and their effects on our perception of history, memory and the politics of images.
2023 · AI · Education
Artificial Intelligence: Art and Pedagogies, Risks and Possibilities
18ª CineOP · Universo Produção · 1:51:43
A masterclass on the relationships between art, artificial intelligence and education, moderated by Adriana Fresquet.
More recordings
Giselle Beiguelman in Conversation with Melanie Lenz
eCommemoration · Körber-Stiftung · 59:40
An artist–curator conversation at the eCommemoration Convention 2024 in Hamburg. Melanie Lenz is curator of digital art at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Demusealizing the Museum
ISEA 2022 · SNMAA · 46:49
Audiences’ digital agency and institutional critique as possible futures for museums. A panel with Nathalia Lavigne, Bruno Moreschi and Rafael Pagatini.
Technobotanics
Flip 2021 · 1:17:15
A conversation with K Allado-McDowell on artificial intelligence, writing and plants, moderated by Ronaldo Lemos. Original-language recording.
New Monuments for New Imaginaries
Sesc Carmo · Sesc 24 de Maio · 2:01:06
Monuments, contested memories and the imagination of new symbols for public space, in the series Do 13 ao 20: (Re) Existência do povo negro.
What to Archive? Demands and Principles of Digital Memory
FILEALIVE / ARQUIVOVIVO · 1:34:24
A discussion with Dalton Martins and Pablo Gobira, moderated by Silvia Laurentiz. Edited recording in Portuguese with English subtitles.
Art and Politics in the Age of Deepfakes
Revista ZUM · Instituto Moreira Salles · 1:16:31
A discussion with Ronaldo Lemos about AI-generated images, the boundaries between reality and fiction, and their ethical and political dilemmas.
Selected talks
A selection of presentations from 2004 to 2025, tracing a path from books and mobile networks to research with artificial intelligence.
Research-Creation Methodologies with Artificial Intelligence
The Catastrophe Has No Aftermath: From Political Subject to Ecological Agency in the Arts of the Technocene
Artificial Intelligence and the New Politics of Images
Deviant Natures: Rethinking Museums Beyond Colonialism and the Anthropocene
The Archive Is the World (or Cannibalizing Collections Is Necessary)
Sunday in the Coup: January 8 Is Not Over
With Lucas Bambozzi, Pedro Arantes and Guilherme Wisnik.