The Future of Sex: AI, Desire, and the Flesh

IKSK Colloquium –
The Future of Sex: AI, Desire, and the Flesh
with Anna Ivanova and Dr. Chang Gao

📅 Date: Thursday, June 5, 2025
🕢 Time: 19:30
📍 Location: IKSK-Berlin @iksk.berlin
Holzmarkt 25, Haus 2 / 4th Floor
🗣️ Language: English
🎟️ Admission: Donation-based (starting at 10€ – all proceeds go to IKSK)

Join us for a provocative and boundary-pushing evening at the intersection of technology, intimacy, and the body. In this special colloquium session, multimedia artist and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Chang Gao will present her talk:

Desire Beyond Flesh: Combating AI Bias through Supernormal Stimuli

Drawing on her internationally exhibited art practice and interdisciplinary research, Dr. Gao explores how bodily affect, eroticism, and multisensory interfaces can challenge the limitations of anthropocentric AI systems. Her work traverses psychology, philosophy, politics, and sexuality—reimagining desire as a subversive force that can resist cultural hegemony and algorithmic repression, such as Chinese censorship and bias in artificial intelligence.

Dr. Chang Gao holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art (London) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK). Her immersive works include robotics, AR, bioelectric systems, real-time AI, and sculpture—merging science, sensuality, and social critique.

This colloquium is part of IKSK’s ongoing series exploring radical futures, embodied knowledge, and transdisciplinary perspectives. Thanks for the invite @wieland.tobi @stefanie.rinke

Feel free to bring a friend or share this invitation with anyone interested in art, technology, and the future of human connection.

We look forward to seeing you there!
https://www.iksk-berlin.de/philosophical-colloquium