Wed­nes­day, July 10th 2024, 11 am, room 128d (Brecht­bau)

A warm invit­a­tion to all AI and art enthu­si­asts to the lec­ture by Dr. Maria del Mar Gar­cía Jíme­nez next Wed­nes­day, July 10th 2024 at 11am in room 128d in the Brechtbau!

Maria del Mar Gar­cía Jíme­nez is cur­rently a vis­it­ing pro­fess­or at the Insti­tute of Media Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of Tübin­gen and the RHET AI Cen­ter. Dur­ing her research stay in Tübin­gen, Maria del Mar will not only be part of the work­ing group in Tübin­gen, but will also give an insight into her own research. The col­loqui­um on July 10th will take place at the begin­ning of her stay in Tübin­gen, which will last until Septem­ber 10th, 2024. 

Abstract zum Thema des Kolloquiums

Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) is pro­foundly trans­form­ing both artist­ic cre­ation and its teach­ing, rede­fin­ing the con­cepts of cre­ativ­ity and the role of the artist. In the realm of visu­al art pro­duc­tion, AI facil­it­ates the rap­id and eco­nom­ic­al gen­er­a­tion of works through algorithms that learn and rep­lic­ate artist­ic styles, rais­ing ques­tions not only about the legit­im­acy of AI as a co-cre­at­or but also about the future of plastic and visu­al cre­ation. Addi­tion­ally, AI can enable new forms of col­lab­or­a­tion and artist­ic explor­a­tion, demo­crat­iz­ing access to the visu­al and sym­bol­ic pro­duc­tion that char­ac­ter­izes art. The rap­id devel­op­ment of AI has sig­ni­fic­antly impacted the basis of artist­ic cre­ation, pos­ing ques­tions about the future of Visu­al Art in a world where tech­no­logy plays an increas­ingly cent­ral role in cre­at­ive processes.

Import­ant: The lan­guage for the col­loqui­um and the talk will be English.

About Dr. Maria del Mar García Jímenez

María del Mar is an artist and uni­ver­sity lec­turer in Fine Arts at the Uni­ver­sity of Seville and a mem­ber of the research group HUM337: Plastic, Sequen­tial, Exper­i­ment­al Print­ing Art and New Tech­no­lo­gies. The­ory and Prac­tice. Her exper­i­ence encom­passes artist­ic cre­ation and research in art. Her research interests include explor­ing the fields of pho­to­graphy and the inter­sec­tions and hybrid­iz­a­tions of con­tem­por­ary art, media, digit­al tech­no­logy, and emer­ging tech­no­lo­gies, includ­ing their soci­opol­it­ic­al and cul­tur­al implications.