Artificial intelligence - machine learning and computer vision - constantly analyze and produce images.
AIIM - Centre for Aesthetics of AI Images explores how these new image practices significantly shape us aesthetically – and thereby also culturally, socially, and epistemologically.
PhD defence
Asker Bryld Staunæs will defend his dissertation Syntheticism: How I Learned to Love Democracy on Monday 21 September. Read more here.
Picture Cultures in Stockholm
A group of AIIM members will take part in the “Picture Cultures” seminar in Stockholm on 17 September. The programme brings together research on mass-produced and mass-reproduced pictures, from photography and print culture to AI, visual data and the changing conditions of image production and circulation.
Seminar on Slopaganda
AIIM recently hosted the seminar “Slopagandistisk Billedpolitik”, with contributions from Johan Farkas, Ada Ida Fuglsang Grønne Poulsen, Asker Bryld Staunæs and Lotte Philipsen. Researchers, students, artists and practitioners from different backgrounds discussed the concept of slopaganda, visual power and political aesthetics, with a productive dialogue across perspectives.
Citizen’s initiative (“borgerforslag”) on AI
Asker Bryld Staunæs has submitted an initiative addressing the use of AI in public administration and the right to have cases reconsidered without AI-based processing. Read the proposal here.