Fabian Offert

Fabian Offert is tenure-track Assistant Professor for the History and Theory of the Digital Humanities at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research and teaching focuses on the visual digital humanities, with a special interest in the epistemology and aesthetics of machine learning and computer vision. He is Principal Investigator of the UCHRI multi campus research group "Critical Machine Learning Studies" (2021-23), and the international research project "AI Forensics" (2022-25), funded by the VW foundation. His most recent articles have appeared in journals like AI & Society, Media and Environment, and the Journal of Art Historiography, as well as in conferences like DH, DHd, CHR, and NeurIPS. He has given invited talks at Berkeley, UNSW Sydney, transmediale, Gaîté Lyrique Paris, HU Berlin, EHESS Paris, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, among others. He is also founding editor of Construction Kit: A Review Journal for Research Software and Data Services in the Humanities. Before joining the faculty at UCSB, Fabian served as Postdoctoral Researcher in the DFG SPP "The Digital Image", Associated Researcher in the Critical Artificial Intelligence Group (KIM) at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, and Assistant Curator at ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany. Website