Fabian Offert is Assistant Professor in History and Theory of the Digital Humanities at UC Santa Barbara. His research and teaching focus on the visual digital humanities, with a special interest in the epistemology and aesthetics of computer vision and machine learning. He is also principal investigator of the international research project “AI Forensics” (2022-25), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Before joining the faculty at UC Santa Barbara, Fabian 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.
