Online Events, Events | Tuesday, 24.10.2023, 17:00–19:00
Performance and Talks: The Lure of the Image – Repairing the World
Sebastian Schmieg and Lina Schwarzenberg, screenshot from The World Is Beautiful Again, 2023
Recent generative AI systems have offered the possibility to conjure entirely new images out of text prompts or to modify existing photographs. While these images hide their algorithmic coding and complex material and global infrastructures, machine learning technologies and AI imaging platforms allow us to re-imagine the world and transform its image with a few simple key presses.
The creative properties of this imagery are explored in the project The World Is Beautiful Again by Sebastian Schmieg and Lina Schwarzenberg. Taking its playful starting point in the 1928 photobook Die Welt ist schön (The World Is Beautiful) by German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch, the project explores whether AI-generated images could be seen as expressions of possibility spaces that prompt us to question ourselves and our environment: Why are things the way they are and not otherwise? What alternatives are there? And what might forms of repair look like?
Join us for the launch of the project at this evening event, where the artists will receive images from the audience and will start “repairing the world” through a dedicated Zoom performance. The work is a commission by Fotomuseum Winterthur for their The Lure of the Image project.
Programme
17:00 Introduction to algorithmic and networked visual cultures at Fotomuseum Winterthur by Marco de Mutiis, digital curator Fotomuseum Winterthur
17:15 Introduction to The Lure of the Image by Clara Bolin, fellow Fotomuseum Winterthur
17:30 Introduction to the Lure of Generative AIs by Marco de Mutiis and Clara Bolin
17:45 The World Is Beautiful Again project launch and “repair performance” by Sebastian Schmieg and Lina Schwarzenberg
18:30 Artists Q&A
The event is free of charge and organised in collaboration with Camera Arts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Participation is possible either on site (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 745 Viscosistadt, Nylsuisseplatz 1, 6020 Lucerne-Emmenbrücke, CA Studio, Room 115) or via Zoom (LINK).
The creative properties of this imagery are explored in the project The World Is Beautiful Again by Sebastian Schmieg and Lina Schwarzenberg. Taking its playful starting point in the 1928 photobook Die Welt ist schön (The World Is Beautiful) by German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch, the project explores whether AI-generated images could be seen as expressions of possibility spaces that prompt us to question ourselves and our environment: Why are things the way they are and not otherwise? What alternatives are there? And what might forms of repair look like?
Join us for the launch of the project at this evening event, where the artists will receive images from the audience and will start “repairing the world” through a dedicated Zoom performance. The work is a commission by Fotomuseum Winterthur for their The Lure of the Image project.
Programme
17:00 Introduction to algorithmic and networked visual cultures at Fotomuseum Winterthur by Marco de Mutiis, digital curator Fotomuseum Winterthur
17:15 Introduction to The Lure of the Image by Clara Bolin, fellow Fotomuseum Winterthur
17:30 Introduction to the Lure of Generative AIs by Marco de Mutiis and Clara Bolin
17:45 The World Is Beautiful Again project launch and “repair performance” by Sebastian Schmieg and Lina Schwarzenberg
18:30 Artists Q&A
The event is free of charge and organised in collaboration with Camera Arts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Participation is possible either on site (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 745 Viscosistadt, Nylsuisseplatz 1, 6020 Lucerne-Emmenbrücke, CA Studio, Room 115) or via Zoom (LINK).