Foto Wien Opening Days: The Politics of Images. AI and Deep Talk, Panel (ENG)

Artificial Intelligence is nothing new but the ever-growing world of images around us has facilitated immense data sets to train it, and it has gotten incredibly good at making us doubt what is real, man- made, and authentic. ChatGTP, Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion are generating a paradigm shift. As the role of AI manufacturing images spreads, how does this affect our perspective of reality? Many would say that propaganda and photo manipulation has been part of photography since its inception. How can we navigate this brave new world of nonhuman image-making?

Darius Himes, Head of the photography departement Christie’s, author, lecturer, publisher
Axel Stockburger, Artist and Associate Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Sebastian Schmieg, Artist and professor for Interfacedesign HTW Dresden
Moderation: Barbara Cueto, independent digital curator, Berlin

Saturday June 3. 2023 - 6pm @ Museumsquartier WIen, Arena 21

Foto Wien Opening Days: The Politics of Images. AI and Deep Talk, Panel (ENG)

Artificial Intelligence is nothing new but the ever-growing world of images around us has facilitated immense data sets to train it, and it has gotten incredibly good at making us doubt what is real, man- made, and authentic. ChatGTP, Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion are generating a paradigm shift. As the role of AI manufacturing images spreads, how does this affect our perspective of reality? Many would say that propaganda and photo manipulation has been part of photography since its inception. How can we navigate this brave new world of nonhuman image-making?

Darius Himes, Head of the photography departement Christie’s, author, lecturer, publisher
Axel Stockburger, Artist and Associate Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Sebastian Schmieg, Artist and professor for Interfacedesign HTW Dresden
Moderation: Barbara Cueto, independent digital curator, Berlin

Saturday June 3. 2023 - 6pm @ Museumsquartier WIen, Arena 21