A comprehensive, one-day symposium focused on the pervasive emergence of AI and its effects upon the lens and screen arts. This event is the first part of a series of lectures and discussions with artists, theorists, educators and industry professionals reflecting on the recent explosion of interest, use and questions surrounding AI image synthesis through tools such as DALL-E, MidJourney, Stable Diffusion and others. The symposium will begin with an opening keynote address by the celebrated Berlin-based filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl, whose work offers incisive discourse across the fields of art, philosophy, and politics. Her talk will be followed by three sessions that discuss the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) impacts arts education, society, creative practices, and industries. The first session, AI + Arts Education, will feature the chair of MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Charles Traub in conversation with the chair of MFA Fine Arts Mark Tribe, Christiane Paul (Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School and Curator of Digital Art at The Whitney Museum of American Art), and the chair of MFA Computer Arts Terrence Masson. The second session, Ethical, Legal, + Social Implications of AI, will feature a conversation between writer and critic of digital photography Fred Ritchin, the founding CEO of the non-profit AI for the People Mutale Nkonde, and media and copyright attorney Ed Klaris of Klaris Law. The final session, Creative AI, will focus on the creative capacity of AI with presentations and discussions by artist and educator Stephanie Dinkins and new media artist Carla Gannis, with writer and media theorist Natasha Chuk as moderator. All of these speakers are major authorities in their fields.
New York City, NY; NYC