events

Lecture: Björn Ommer. Tue 11 June, 2024, 7 pm, Room E.O3.26 (Emergent Digital Media class), New Building, Academy of Fine Arts Munich Since 2022, Stable Diffusion has become one of the most impor­tant gen­er­a­tive mod­els in the field of so-called arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, along­side Midjourney and Open AI’s Dall‑E. Since Stable Diffusion aligns with the open…

Lecture by Amanda Wasielewski Tue May 28, 2024, 7pm, Room E.O2.29, Neubau, AdBK München Video record­ing here: https://carrier-bag.net/video/the-opticality-unconscious/ Inspired by Rosalind Krauss’s book The Optical Unconscious, Amanda Wasielewskis lec­ture explores how a hybrid prac­tice of writ­ing and image cre­ation can shed light on the often-derid­ed stric­tures of mid-cen­tu­ry mod­ernism in New York, name­ly the ideas…

Synthetic Media in Networked Image Cultures Lecture by Roland Meyer Tue May 14, 2024, 7pm, Room E.O2.29, Neubau, AdBK München Video record­ing here: https://carrier-bag.net/video/dreamworlds-of-platform-capitalism/ While the ini­tial hype sur­round­ing AI image syn­the­sis mod­els such as Dall‑E, Midjourney, or Stable Diffusion is fad­ing, their mas­sive impact on net­worked image cul­tures is becom­ing ever clear­er: Social media…