Disegno 2025/1

HOMOGENISED HERITAGE: AI AND CENTRAL EUROPE

Editors: Zsolt Gyenge, Olivér Horváth (Managing Editor), Márton Szentpéteri. Guest editor: Brigitta Iványi-Bitter. Founding Editor: Heni Fiáth (2014–2018)

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Table of Contents

introduction
Brigitta Iványi-Bitter: Visibility under AI Mediation

research papers
Ania Malinowska: AI Assimilationism: The Cultural Flattening of Localities in Generative Models

Michał Krzykawski: Beyond Computational Illusion: Futures Worth Wanting
for Artistic Practices and Technical Cultures


Brigitta Iványi-Bitter, Tibor Bacsi, and Szilárd Szakács: Epistemic Cultural Flattening in Generative Visual AI: Benchmarking Hungarian Heritage and Designing a V4 Path Toward Culturally Aware Text-to-Video

Kateřina Marková: Against Collective Vulnerability: Understanding Cultural Alignment in LLMs (Not Only) in Central Europe and Calling Design Research to Help

Anna Keszeg: The Paprika-Effect. Central and Eastern Europe as a Noisy Label in AI-Generated Images

Jiří Philippe Janda: North Bohemia as a Low-Resource Visual Context: Everyday Heritage, Uneven Visibility, and Synthetic Aesthetics

David Kořínek: The Liminality of Generative Creation: The Artistic Process Between Intuition and Algorithm

Albín Kuchta & Alžbeta Kuchtová: Virtual Spaces: Tools of Poetic Resistance or Censorship Devices?

about the authors