Fotomuseum Winterthur | Workshops | Saturday, 12.09.2026, 13:30–16:00
Workshop: Out of Stock – Understanding, Examining and Questioning AI Images
This image was generated using artificial intelligence.
How are photographic images and visual narratives generated using artificial intelligence? What role do stock images, data sets and machine learning play in this?
In the workshop Out of Stock – Understanding, Examining and Questioning AI Images, we discuss the opportunities and dangers of AI-generated images. Together, we analyse how and which images are used as training data for AI and why this can lead to the reproduction of stereotypes, clichés and dangerous narratives. In the process, we learn about the visual characteristics of AI images and shed light on their increasingly widespread use.
We will explore the mechanisms behind this technology in creative tasks and experiment with strategies developed by artists and net activists to critically reflect on and challenge these mechanisms.
Age: from 16 years, no previous knowledge necessary
Duration: 2.5 hours
Educator: Jovana Pavlović
Costs: CHF 55.– per person
Equipment: please bring your own smartphone
Note: This workshop requires a minimum of five registered participants and is limited to a maximum of twenty people.
Registration deadline: one week before the event
From 2026 to 2027, the focus on image and media competence is supported by the Volkart Foundation and the Elkman Foundation.
From 2022 to 2024, the further development of the programme under the title Get the Full Picture was supported by Stiftung Mercator Schweiz and Volkart Foundation. The pilot phase of the programme was made possible by the Migros Pioneer Fund (2019–2022).
This workshop takes place in German.
In the workshop Out of Stock – Understanding, Examining and Questioning AI Images, we discuss the opportunities and dangers of AI-generated images. Together, we analyse how and which images are used as training data for AI and why this can lead to the reproduction of stereotypes, clichés and dangerous narratives. In the process, we learn about the visual characteristics of AI images and shed light on their increasingly widespread use.
We will explore the mechanisms behind this technology in creative tasks and experiment with strategies developed by artists and net activists to critically reflect on and challenge these mechanisms.
Age: from 16 years, no previous knowledge necessary
Duration: 2.5 hours
Educator: Jovana Pavlović
Costs: CHF 55.– per person
Equipment: please bring your own smartphone
Note: This workshop requires a minimum of five registered participants and is limited to a maximum of twenty people.
Registration deadline: one week before the event
From 2026 to 2027, the focus on image and media competence is supported by the Volkart Foundation and the Elkman Foundation.
From 2022 to 2024, the further development of the programme under the title Get the Full Picture was supported by Stiftung Mercator Schweiz and Volkart Foundation. The pilot phase of the programme was made possible by the Migros Pioneer Fund (2019–2022).
This workshop takes place in German.