Fabian Offert

Fabian Offert is Assistant Professor for the History and Theory of the Digital Humanities and Director of the Center for the Humanities and Machine Learning (HUML) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the epistemology, aesthetics, and politics of artificial intelligence, with recent publications appearing in AI & Society, Visual Resources, the Journal of Digital Social Research, American Literature, and Media + Environment, among others. His most recent book project, Vector Media (Meson Press/University of Minnesota Press, 2025) writes a new historical epistemology of artificial intelligence, asking how machine learning models represent culture and what is at stake when they do. Fabian is also principal investigator of the AI Forensics international research project on explainable artificial intelligence, supported by the Volkswagen Foundation, and 2025 Rudolf Wittkower Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome.