Taking stock: Photography and visual media in the context of GenAI

The field of photography is being transformed by new forms of algorithmic modulation including Generative AI image models.  How should we understand the relation between photographs and AI images? What are the specific materialities and evolving cultural politics of photography’s entanglement with generative computational image models? This symposium is relevant to all scholars interested in visual culture as well as to photo-media practitioners and visual artists.  Speakers include Michelle Henning (Professor of Photography and Media, Liverpool University), Anna Munster (Professor, School of Art & Design UNSW), Aarati Akkapeddi (artist and fellow, NYU Tisch School of the Arts) and Jasmin Pfefferkorn (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne).

Top image credit: Aarati Akkapeddi, I knew that if I walked in your footsteps, it would become a ritual, 2021. Video still. Code, Cyanolumen Prints, & Video. Courtesy of the artist.