The Bielefeld workshop for photography students, titled "Photography through the Lens of Artificial Intelligence," explores the intersection of photography and AI. It begins with an overview of photography's various genres, emphasizing fine art, architectural, photojournalism, and commercial photography. The workshop highlights the emergence of AI text-to-image generators, notably mentioning early contributors, and discusses AI's impact on the future of photography, questioning which genres might prevail or fade. It delves into the integration of AI in artistic creation, offering new perspectives and discussing its implications for artistic authenticity, ethical considerations, and bias. The workshop also ponders the reality of AI-produced images and the future role of AI in art as both a tool and a collaborator. Practical exercises include using text-to-image generators for creative exploration and attempting to recreate photographs through AI, emphasizing the variance in results across different platforms and the significance of prompt engineering.
Maria Mavropoulou was born in 1989, she lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is a visual artist using mainly photography while her work expands to new forms of photographic images, such as VR and screen-captured images, GAN and AI-generated images. Her work and research focus on the new realities created by the connectible devices and the contradictions between the physical and the virtual spaces that we inhabit, addressing issues of technological mediation. By using the most novel technology available to her, she creates work that reflects on the new ways images are produced today. Her work explores digital identity and representation in the post-social media era, algorithmic bias, network culture, power politics between machines and humans, and the multidimensionality of our experiences in our always-online world. Her recent projects correlate creativity and AI with the divine as well as reflect on the future of photography amidst the advances of synthetic images.
Target group: Photography students
