Amidst the ongoing AI boom, a persistent point of contention concerns the “originality” of the images produced by AI text-to-image generators. As the products of a machine learning process that involves recognising complex patterns within large datasets of pre-existing images, AI-generated images can essentially be understood as the reconstituted traces of historical image data. However, due to the randomised generative process, the origins of such images are easily obscured, thus allowing them to appear as entirely original creations with no history to speak of.
Time: 05/10 Sun. 16:30-19:30
Venue: Art Space II, 2F
Organised by Ho Rui An, History and Intelligence is a workshop on generative AI that explores the relationship between (artificial) intelligence and (collective) history. Resisting the reduction of history into a field of patterns from which new (and ahistorical) images are generated, the workshop seeks instead to repurpose the technology as a tool for recounting and reimagining our histories. Through presentations and demonstrations, participants will be introduced to different ideas and techniques that can give us more agency over the use of generative AI, before finally applying what they have learnt through a hands-on activity to write their own histories of intelligence.
▶ Schedule of the Event
Presentation by Ho Rui An (1 hour)
The artist will share the process of researching and producing the timeline and share basic generative AI tools that will be useful for the group activity.
Group activity: Writing a History of Intelligence (1 to 1.5 hours)
After reviewing the timeline installation, participants will break into groups to research and create their own history of intelligence with a minimum of 5 moments, using the AI tools introduced to generate images for these moments. They are encouraged to think about moments that have been marginalised or fallen away from official histories and mainstream narratives.
Sharing and reflection (0.5 to 1 hour)
▶ Free Admission via Online Registration
Speaker Bio
▌HO Rui An
HO Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. Through lectures, essays and films, his research examines the relations between labour, technology and capital across different systems of governance in a global age. He has presented projects at the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale; Shanghai Biennale; Bangkok Art Biennale; Gwangju Biennale; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien; Singapore Art Museum and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media.
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