On 16th October 2025, Ilaria Fornacciari delivered a guest lecture titled A Scanner Darkly: Machine Vision and Emotional AI in Artistic Practices in the course Digital Art Histories Today: from AI to the Web Archive (DU2417) at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
The course introduces digital humanities methods in art history, focusing on AI, digitisation, and computational image analysis, and critically reflects on their methodological and ethical implications.
More information about the talk available here.
In November 2025, Ilaria Fornacciari presented her talk Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition and Emotional Data, where she examined emotion recognition technologies in relation to the AI Act & epistemological foundations of emotional data.
In November 2025, a guest lecture by Ilaria Fornacciari brought critical perspectives on facial analysis and digital technologies into the course Visual Anthropology - Visual Culture.
