On AI and Photography | Aperture–IFA Photo Assembly, Spring 2024

Minne Atairu, Jonathan Beller, and Gideon Jacobs discuss the political, aesthetic, and historical implications of AI within the practice of photography.

Erich Kessel, assistant professor of African American and Black Diaspora Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, provides an introduction and moderates the conversation.

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Photo Assembly, hosted by Aperture and the Institute of Fine Arts, is a new series of conversations that center photography as a creative act and means of responding to urgent questions in the world around us.

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Thumbnail Image: Minne Atairu, Blonde Braids Study IV, 2023

[dimitristsagdis]

Why call it photography and not graphic or visual art. These artists are not painting with light (the definition of photography) but instructing/prompting the production of art.

[BilBrown]

I think this needs to be simplified. To paraphrase Charles Harbutt, photography is the only art (if it is an art at all) where either you or your camera have to actually be there. In this, I think the first speaker and the others are missing the point – and POWER of lens-based art. The conceptual basis of the art presented by the second speaker is impressive, but is it what we would know as photography? Also, the fact that generative art does not denote authorship and images taht are made by generative means are not LEGALLY considered having an artist at the back side – then outside of being part of a collective authorship (since generative art needs the memory muse of everything that has literally be made before it to have this machine that learns know) why do these prompters even think what they have done is their own work at all??? Maybe this is as basic as Kant's moral premise that protecting consciousness is the only thing that is worth fighting for, And AI is not our human consciousness.

[art_means_artificial]

stop talking about AI! it is rubbish topic of discussion