Artificial intelligence technologies for image creation and analysis are making a huge impact on art, design, and the study of art history and visual culture today. Contemporary AI applications can be used to automatically categorize images, identify objects or motifs in images, or even detect forgeries. They can also be used, in the case of tools like DALL-E or Stable Diffusion, to create new images based on simple input text. Covering a wide range of applications of AI in art and image studies, this talk and workshop will address the question of how AI technology can affect our methods for interpreting artworks and images. How can we begin to understand AI and its use in both academic settings and the art/design world?
This virtual program will include automated captioning. If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please email libevents@osu.edu as soon as possible. Requests made at least one week prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
About the Speaker:
Amanda Wasielewski is Associate Senior Lecturer of Digital Humanities and Associate Professor (Docent) of Art History at Uppsala University. Her writing and research investigate the use of digital technology in art, visual culture and spatial practice. Her recent research is on the use of artificial intelligence techniques to study and create art, with a particular focus on the theoretical implications of AI-generated photography. Wasielewski is the author of three monographs including Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning (MIT Press, 2023).
