Fall 2024 Visual Arts AV5603 section 001

AI & PHOTOGRAPHY

Call Number 11608
Day & Time
Location
MW 1:30pm-4:00pm
106 Watson Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Naeem Mohaiemen
Type STUDIO
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

As far back as Walter Benjamin’s “work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” (1935), photography has always been challenged by mechanical means of image processing. Photographers and Institutions have first resisted and then (mostly) embraced each of these changes. This class explores Artificial Intelligence Photography as the latest in a series of earthquakes in the history of the photographic image, accompanying the desires of business, globalization, and science. This class seeks an ethically guided, globally representative model for photography and artificial intelligence. Debates around authorship and creativity (e.g., Supreme Court case with Andy Warhol) now face a radically new context of an “authorless” photograph. As crowdsourced imagemaking begins, the bias of massive datasets have taken techno-utopians by surprise, underlining that the task of building an equitable image-bank of the world cannot be left to algorithms and entrepreneurs. This class will explore the ethics and aesthetics of Artificial Intelligence and Imagery. There will be equal emphasis on reading and writing papers, as there will be on learning new software and tools.

Web Site Vergil
Department Visual Arts
Enrollment 5 students (2 max) as of 9:06AM Sunday, December 8, 2024
Status Full
Subject Visual Arts
Number AV5603
Section 001
Division School of the Arts
Open To Schools of the Arts, Teachers College
Fee $125 Visual Arts Course
Note VISUAL ARTS & SOUND ART MFA STUDENTS ONLY
Section key 20243VIAR5603R001