BMO Lab Fall 2026 Lectures: Of All Virtues Only One: Theatre after Artificial Intelligence – Sept 30, 2026

Session Description

The BMO Lab is hosting a series of lectures this fall. The first in its series is with Fabian Offert from the University of California in Santa Barbara.

Lecture title: Of All Virtues Only One: Theatre after Artificial Intelligence

Bio: Fabian Offert is Assistant Professor for the History and Theory of the Digital Humanities and Co-Director of the Center for the Humanities and Machine Learning (HUML) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research and teaching focuses on the epistemology, aesthetics, and politics of artificial intelligence. His most recent book, Vector Media (Meson Press/University of Minnesota Press, 2026) writes the first comprehensive history and theory of vector space as a space of universal commensurability in contemporary machine learning. Fabian was 2025 Rudolf Wittkower Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome and will be Visiting Professor at the University of Marburg’s Center for Digital Culture and Infrastructure in 2026