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Humans have always made images, driven by a need to preserve memories and tell stories. Yet, with each image-making innovation – like photography and video – we are forced us to rethink how we make and use images. The emergence of AI and ML tools invites us again to re-imagine our role as both image-makers and image-consumers.
In this guide, we share our findings, resources, and community reflections from our program: AI Playground / Image.
From synthetic media in photography to auto-editing video, we'll look at how new AI and ML tools are impacting image-making. We’ll reflect on how these new tools can be misused and what we can do about it.
[PUBLISHED]: MAY 2022
[AUTHORS]: Catarina Rodrigues / Nadia Piet / Ploipailin Flynn
[FUNDING]: Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
When photography was invited in the early 1800s, it was primarily a tool for scientists to experiment with photo-sensitive materials. During this time, futurists imagined potential use cases of photography, and artists debated if photography might be considered art. Fine art societies worked to develop standards for how photographs should look.
“[Photographs are useful so long as they are taken in] accordance, as far as it is possible, with the acknowledged principles of Fine Art.”
-Upon Photography in an Artistic View, 1853, Journal of the Photographic Society
1888 Advertisment for Kodak camera, source: THE GUARDIAN
A couple of decades later in 1888, Kodak launched a camera Kodak’s with the tagline “You press the button, we do the rest”. A century later, the button has been replaced by a cursor.
Image capture has always been important for society and people. Images help us document historic events, persuade others to join our causes, capture every and any moment of everyday life. Images have power to keep the memory of a loved one alive, evoke buried emotions, and help us tell our story.
Through the year, so many tools have revolutionized the field, from Camera Obscura to the Kodak Camera, the Polaroid Camera, and the iPhone. Now AI tools push us even further. The use of AI allows us to create memories of events that never happened – or even images of people who don’t exist.
If an image is worth a thousand words, how does AI change our stories and how we tell them?
📸 WIP Timeline by Fabian Mosele see the finished interactive timeline HERE.
