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Critical Image Synthesis: Glitching the AI Imaginary – Gray Area Festival Workshop

Critical Image Synthesis: Glitching the AI Imaginary – Gray Area Festival Workshop

 

Accessibility Update:
Please note that this workshop will be held in the upstairs Gray Area classroom, which is not ADA accessible. We apologize for any inconvenience and encourage those impacted to contact us for assistance. Thank you for your understanding.

 

An AI art workshop for AI critics. From Ben Laposky to Nam June Paik, artists who work with technology often work against it. The generative AI boom has led to a glut of kitschy and glossy reproductions from the style library of the datasets. They’ve been criticized for how their data is collected and for the biases these datasets contain. But generative computer art has a longer history, set apart from the history of photography and illustration favored by tools such as Midjourney and Dall-E. This history of computer art bends toward the creative misuse of systems to challenge their constraint on our techno-social and artistic imaginations. How can digital artists subvert the logic of these systems, and work toward a new visual vocabulary for AI?

 

As a founder of the Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (ARRG!) artist, writer, and researcher Eryk Salvaggio (cyberneticforests.com) explores generative AI as an adversary, rather than a collaborator. In this workshop, Salvaggio will explore conceptual and technical strategies for interrogating generative AI systems for images, video, and music. Attendees will leave with new ways of looking at how these models work, and have time to develop, test, and share their strategies.

This workshop is part of the  Gray Area Festival 2024.

Marking Gray Area Festival’s 10th anniversary, Gray Area 10 continues our annual survey of culture through the lens of creative practice, featuring a conference, performances, and workshops.

Course Logistics

Dates
Sunday September 15, 2024

Location

Gray Area
2665 Mission Street
San Francisco

Time
11am-1pm

Cost
Sliding scale $40-$90 for a 2hr hands-on workshop (Limited to 15 students)
Suggested price: $45

We also offer Diversity Scholarships, find out more and apply here

Experience level: Beginner

Course Requirements:
No prerequisites to participate. 

Education Goals

Attendees will leave with new ways of looking at how generative AI models work, and have time to develop, test, and share their strategies of subverting them.

Technologies

MidJourney
Dall-E

 


Instructor(s)

Eryk Salvaggio is an artist, researcher, hacker and theorist interested in the social and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence. His work explores the creative misuse of AI and the transformation of archives into datasets for AI training, confronting the gaps between datasets and the worlds they claim to represent. He has been published in academic journals, spoken at music and film festivals, and consulted on tech policy internationally. He is the author of the Cybernetic Forests newsletter and his website is cyberneticforests.com