Fabian Offert

Fabian Offert is 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 computer vision and machine learning. His current book project focuses on "Machine Visual Culture" in the age of foundation models. Fabian is also principal investigator of the international research project "AI Forensics" (2022-25), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, and was principal investigator of the UCHRI multi campus research group "Critical Machine Learning Studies" (2021-22). Before joining the faculty at UCSB, he served as postdoctoral researcher in the German Research Foundation’s special interest group "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.