the conference
On Saturday 16.12.2023, 11.00'-18.00', a conference with the same title will be held in the same place, as part of the exhibition.
Organized by Photography Center of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the Institut Francais de Thessalonique, with the support of Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2023
The pdf file of the conference program
Conference "Capturing the Future /Photography in the Age of Artificial Intelligence»
Saturday 16.12.2023, 9.30'-17.00'
Organized by Photography Center of Thessaloniki,
in collaboration with the Institut Francais de Thessalonique,
with the support of Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2023
Allatini-Dassault Hall of the French Institute of Thessaloniki (Stratou Av. 2A)
Program of the Day 09.30-10.00
Conference opening ceremony
Regards
Jean-Luc Lavaud, French Consul, Director of the French Institute
Vassilis Karkatselis, Artist, ex. Artistic Director of Photography Center of Thessaloniki "Introduction to 2022-23 project of the Ph.C.of TH. for the common place of photography and new technologies"
Introductory speeches
10.00-10.15 President: Maria Kenanidou, art historian & independent curator, member of the Association of Greek Art Critics (AICA-Hellas). “Capturing the Future / Photography in the age of Artificial Intelligence"
10.15-11:00 Keynote Speaker: Manthos Santorinios, Digital Artist and researcher, Director of FournosLab, professor at the School of Fine Arts of Athens (2000 – 22). "A synoptic history of man who managed to differ from his species (Animalia) and of the images he managed to create"
Discussion 11.00-11.15
Break: 11.15-11.30
First Session: Photography/modern and postmodern paths.
11.30-11.45, President: Iraklis Papaioannou, curator of MOMus-Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki and organizational member of the international photography festival Thessaloniki Photobiennale. "The technical image and the black box" 11.45-12.00, Julian Stallabrass, Writer, photographer, curator and lecturer. “Another Average Episode of Déjà vu” 12.00-12.15, Joanna Zylinska, Artist, writer and professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice at King's College London. "Future Photography in the Perception Machine" Discussion 12:15-12.30
Second Session: Photography/new technologies a transformation of the human
President: Maria Kenanidou, art historian & independent curator, member of the Hellenic Union
of Art Critics (AICA-Hellas)
12.30-12.45 Konstantinos Gemenetzis, Doctor, psychoanalyst. "Passions of images"
12.45-13.00 Ioannis Papadopoulos, Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, photographer. "Moving to
digital world: Meaning and limits"
13.00-13.15 Doukas Kapandais, Director of Research at the Academy of Athens (Research Center of Greek Philosophy) and Associate Professor at the Open University. "Aristotelian psychology: human soul with other materials?"
13.15-13.30 Samson Rakas, Poet. "make love not AI"
Discussion 13.30-13.45
Break 13.45-14.00
Third Session: Photography-new technologies/ A tightrope walking between the real and the imaginary
President: Thanasis Raptis, photographer
14.00-14.15 Tassos Lymberakis, Lecturer, Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts,
University of Western Attica. "Artificial Creation and Audiovisual Content"
14.15-14.30, Katerina Antonopoulou, Dr. Digital Arts. Lecturer at the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. “AI bias: projecting yesterday's social prejudices to tomorrow's images”
14.30-14.45, Thomas Valianatos, Audiovisual artist / Permanent lecturer at Ionian University, Department of Audio and Visual Arts. "A tightrope walking between the real and the imaginary (Visual production of Synthetic Images through Artificial Intelligence)"
14.45-15:00 Ingo Dunnebier, Translator, Photographer, Project Manager, Audiovisual Media and Photography at the University of Applied Sciences. Performance lecture - "press prints"
Discussion 15.00-15.30
Fourth Session: Artistic Practices in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
President: Thanasis Raptis, photographer
15.30-15.45, Gioula Papadopoulou, special teaching stuff Department of Visual and Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki “A.I. made me do it: the artistic process in the age of artificial intelligence"
15.45-16.00 Giorgos Drosos, special teaching stuff Department of Visual and Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. “GaUNs* + A.I. Art and Technologies of Artificial Intelligence". *GANs Generative Adversarial Networks”
Discussion 16.00 -16.15
Closing of the Conference 16.15 -17.00
Organizing Committee: Thanasis Raptis - Maria Kenanidou
With the support of Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2023, organized by
the MOMus-Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki
the exhibition
Photography Center of Thessaloniki is organizing a photography exhibition under the title «Capturing the Future» /Photography in the Artificial Intelligence Era, in collaboration with French Institute of Thessaloniki.
Opening: 24/11/2023, 7pm
French Institute of Thessaloniki - Allatini-Dassault exhibition place - 2A, L. Stratou av., Thessaloniki
The exhibition focuses on the common place of photography and new technologies and includes works created using new technologies such as digital art, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), Non-fungible token (NFT) and other new technologies related to production of the photographic image.
Duration: 24/11 - 19/12/2023
Participants are: Argyriadis Kostis, Valianatos Thomas, Venetopoulos Babis, Georgiadis Elias-Kotsiani Dafni, Dunnebier Ingo, Drosos Yiorgos, Karkatseli Niki, Kariotaki Fotini, Kouzouni Terpsichori, Limperakis Tassos, Mertzos Dimitris, Mpliatkas Zisis, Mpountouroglou Fani, Marthas Krai, Dexis Stylianos-Vounatsou Myrto, Panagiotakis Stavros, Pallas Thanassis, Papadopoulou Gioula, Patrikiou Stefania, Raptis Thanassis, Tsasis Dionysis-Voukalis Orestis Synergy art.
During the opening: PERFORMANCE Follow me to with ImPact-Du. Concept-Performer: Evi Hatzimitakou Piano-Improvisations: Thanassis Mpililis
Curators:
Kenanidou Maria Vasiliki, Art Historian, Independent Curator, member of Hellenic Association of Art Critics (AICA-Hellas)
Raptis Thanassis, Photographer
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Today the incredible production and distribution of digital images is fueling a major transformation of the modern grammar of vision, now fundamental to knowing and reading the world. The digital revolution in the field of photography constitutes a new visual code with unprecedented transformative power in this transitional moment of visual culture.
The artists are concerned with the meaning of the transformations caused by the new constantly and rapidly evolving technologies with this new modality in the production of photography.
