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Bogna Konior presenta una provocadora conferencia que aborda el misticismo erótico cristiano femenino, desde la Edad Media hasta la modernidad, como una filosofía temprana de la inteligencia artificial. A través de una selección de escritos místicos originales y teoría contemporánea de la cibercultura, explora cómo las estigmatizadas y místicas femeninas podrían ser consideradas como pensadoras del internet por venir, incluyendo temas como el romance humano-máquina y la reproducción artificial. Basándose en su propia educación en una escuela católica para niñas iniciada por la mística polaca Marcelina Darowska en la Polonia del siglo XIX, el canon de textos ciberfeministas y cibercultura oculta, así como en experimentos con generadores de imagen y texto, Konior propone una lectura profética de estos textos teológicos tempranos. Konior argumenta que los escritos de estas místicas modelan una forma de pensar sobre la inteligencia artificial y el destino de nuestra especie, donde el erotismo inhumano es una puerta de entrada a una nueva era. Una era de máquinas, ya prefigurada por la popularidad de aplicaciones de acompañantes de IA como Replika, el sexo en realidad virtual en VrChat, la popularidad de modelos eróticos de avatares, o tecnologías de sexo a distancia. Esta charla tuvo lugar en el OpenLAB#03 MENTES SINTÉTICAS de Medialab Matadero, que se celebró los días 9 y 10 de febrero de 2024 en el auditorio de Casa del Lector de Madrid. EN Bogna Konior presents a provocative lecture that engages with female Christian erotic mysticism, from the Middle Ages until modernity, as an early philosophy of artificial intelligence. Through a selection of original mystical writings and contemporary cyberculture theory, she explores how female stigmatics and mystics could be considered as thinkers of the internet to come, including the subjects of human-machine romance as well as artificial reproduction. Drawing from her own education in a Catholic school for girls started by Polish mystic Marcelina Darowska in 19th century Poland, the canon of cyberfeminist and occult cyberculture texts, as well as experiments with image and text generators, Konior proposes a prophetic reading of these early theological texts. The writings of these mystics model for us, she argues, a way of thinking about artificial intelligence and the destiny of our species, where inhuman eroticism is a gateway into a machine age, already prefigured by the popularity of AI partner apps like Replika, virtual reality sex in VrChat, the popularity of avatar erotic models, or remote sex technologies. This talk took place at Medialab Matadero's OpenLAB#03 SYNTHETIC MINDS, which was held on February 9 and 10, 2024 in the auditorium of Casa del Lector in Madrid.

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