AI at the Edges of Latin America

27th November 2020

12:00 - 14:30 GMT-3 (15:00 - 17:30 GMT)

Platform & Language: Zoom (Spanish & English)

Programme

12:00 - 12:30 Introduction

Welcome remarks from:

• Ignacio Sánchez (Rector of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

• Patricio Lizama, (Dean of the Faculty of Letters of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

• Stephen Cave (Executive Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence)

• Kanta Dihal (Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence)

12:30 - 14:30 Panel I: AI at the edges of Latin America

Moderator: Edward González (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Participants:

• Alberto Chimal (writer) - “Captured Intelligences”

• Raúl Cruz (Anacronía):- “AI in the art of Latin America”

• Soledad Véliz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) - “Good night stories for Artificial Intelligence”

Speaker Bios

Alberto Chimal

Topic

Captured Intelligences

Bio

Born in 1970 in Toluca, Alberto Chimal now resides in Mexico City with his wife and fellow writer Raquel Castro and a cat named Primo. He obtained his Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He is the author of the novels Los esclavos (2009) and La torre y el jardín (2012), as well as numerous short story collections, including Gente del mundo (1998), Éstos son los días (2004), Grey (2006), Los atacantes (2013), and Manos de lumber (2018). According to Chimal, most of his works are akin to what Bruce Sterling calls slipstream fiction and deal with the fantastic in somewhat strange ways. In Verónica Murguía’s words, Chimal is a “storyteller who can’t give up, to our delight, the desire to describe what can only be created with words.” Marco Kunz considers him “one of the most versatile and unpredictable writers of current Spanish-American literature.” Chimal’s second novel, La torre y el jardín, was a finalist for the 2013 Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos. Edmundo Paz Soldán opines that it “should become one of the first classics of Latin American literature of this century.” “A Young Man’s Fortune” is a translation of “Fortuna,” which appeared in his 2001 short story collection El país de los hablistas.

Raúl Cruz

Topic

AI in the art of Latin America

Bio

Illustrator / Plastic Artist

Born in Mexico City. When he was little he enjoyed, like all children, drawing fantasy and science fiction scenes inspired by television and cinema. As a teenager he found a way to start to create a distinct identity for his designs, mixing science fiction and fantasy with the cultures and aesthetics of the pre-Hispanic peoples of Mexico, thus generating the world of his pictorial work, mixing past and present to create scenes of unpredictable futures. His work has been exhibited in many cities in Mexico and in different countries, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas and San Diego in the US, Havana and Santiago in Cuba, Basel in Switzerland, Trento and Milan in Italy, Valencia in Spain. His work has been published in multiple books and magazines specialising in Fantastic Art from various countries. He has been active for more than thirty years and several books have been published about his work and career.

Ilustrador / Artista Plástico

Nació en la ciudad de México. Desde pequeño y como todo niño, gustaba de dibujar escenas de fantasía y ciencia ficción motivado por la televisión y el cine. Como adolescente encontró la forma de darle identidad a sus diseños, mezclando la ciencia ficción y fantasía con culturas y estéticas de los pueblos prehispánicos de México, generando así el concepto de su obra pictórica, mezclando pasado y presente para crear escenas de impredecibles futuros. Su obra ha sido exhibida en muchas ciudades de México y de diferentes países, Nueva York, Chicago, Los Ángeles, Dallas, San Diego en EU, La Habana y Santiago en Cuba, Basel en Suiza, Trento y Milán en Italia, Valencia en España. Su obra ha sido publicada en múltiples ediciones de libros y revistas especializadas en el Arte Fantástico, de diferentes países. Con más de 30 años de trabajo y varios libros publicados sobre su obra y trayectoria.

Soledad Véliz

Topic

Good night stories for Artificial IntelligenceAbstract

Bio

Soledad Véliz is a psychologist. She has published science fiction stories in anthologies such as Años Luz, Mapa Estelar de la Ciencia Ficción en Chile (2006), Alucinaciones.TXT (2007) and the fanzine Fobos. Her latest story appears in the anthology Lo sintético: Narraciones sobre robots, seres poshumanos e inteligencias artificiales edited by Salvador Luis Raggio.

Soledad Véliz es psicóloga, ha publicado cuentos de ciencia ficción en antologías tales como Años Luz, Mapa Estelar de la Ciencia Ficción en Chile (2006), Alucinaciones.TXT (2007) y el fanzine Fobos. Su último cuento aparece enla antologia Lo sintético: Narraciones sobre robots, seres poshumanos e inteligencias artificiales editado por Salvador Luis Raggio.