Exiting the Photographic Universe
A conversation with Hito Steyerl
I was recently in a lengthy and intense online video conversation with German theoretician and artist Hito Steyerl centering on the politics and problematics of AI-generated imagery.
“Exiting the Photographic Universe,” the title of our discussion, is featured on Carrier Bag, an innovative technology-centric research site for Emergent Digital Media at AdBK Munich. A full-length transcript is available there as well.
Given the increasingly vicious AI-generated assault on our sense of the real and the possible, these kinds of conversations on contemporary imagery should be more widespread and urgent. Thanks to Hito for inviting me to converse.
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