This seminar takes its point of departure in Alexander Kluge’s 2024 book The Dragonfly’s Eye – My Virtual Camera (AI) [German: Der Konjunktiv der Bilder – Meine virtuelle Kamera (K.I.)]. Long associated with the Frankfurt School (something like its ‘resident artist’), the 93-year-old Kluge stages a montage of AI images and prose that theorizes AI’s function in cinematic imagery and probes the labour, attention, and circulation that sustain it, working explicitly with image models such as Stable Diffusion.

In the seminar we discuss our main readings of the book and screen Kluge’s AI-based film Primitive Diversity (2025, 80 min.), using the pairing to specify what the book and film together say about AI as technique and as infrastructure within contemporary image economies.

• The seminar is aimed at researchers who take an interest in AI imagery / AI art.

Participation is free, but registration is needed (max. 10 persons). Please sign up by accepting the Outlook invitation or by email to Lotte: lottephilipsen@cc.au.dk. We provide beverages and sweets/snacks.

Organized by AIIM – Centre for Aesthetics of AI Images.