Automated - Fall 2023 - MAP2

Automated - Fall 2023 - MAP2

Artificial Photography looks at the recent and current developments
in computational forms of image-making.
The course focuses on the ways in which algorithmic imaging
systems have been shaping the role of the photographer and
the material and aesthetic properties of images, challenging the
traditional understanding of photography.

Through a series of lectures and workshops, Artificial Photography
will specifically centre on so-called AI image generators and
Text-to-Image software, addressing notions of truth and
photographic manipulation, image labour and digital economies,
agency and authorship, circulation and networked images,
representational bias and discrimination, ownership and
political imaginations.

Studio project (2023) with Marco De Mutiis

Assistants
Mahalia Taje Giotto
Students
Sunny Attias, Bor Cvetko, Riccardo Fasana, Florian Hilt, Isabella Madrid, Tanguy Morvan, Nina Pacherová, Amélie Tricaud, Tianyu Wang, Fabienne Watzke
2nd year
3rd semester
ECAL/Tianyu Wang
ECAL/Tianyu Wang
ECAL/Tianyu Wang
ECAL/Tianyu Wang
ECAL/Tianyu Wang
ECAL/Tianyu Wang

1/6

ECAL/Riccardo Fasana
ECAL/Riccardo Fasana

1/2

ECAL/Sunny Attias
ECAL/Sunny Attias

1/2

ECAL/Isabella Madrid
ECAL/Isabella Madrid
ECAL/Isabella Madrid
ECAL/Isabella Madrid
ECAL/Isabella Madrid

1/5

ECAL/Tanguy Morvan
ECAL/Tanguy Morvan
ECAL/Tanguy Morvan

1/3

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