Aesthetics of Digital Image Syntheses: Genealogies, styles, practices
with a video message by Lev Manovich.

Concept and Organisation: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anna Schober, DI Dr. Martina Tritthart and
Mag. Florian Gucher (University of Klagenfurt, Institute for Cultural Analysis, Visual Culture Unit)

contact: anna.schoberaau.at

// Preliminary programme:

I Thursday, 07.11.2024
09:00-09:20 I Registration/coffee

09:20-09:30 I Introduction (Anna Schober)
09:30-10:10 I Keynote Jacob Birken: Pics or it didn't happen. Synthetic images and their
economies
10:10-10:30 I Q&A (Moderation: Martina Tritthart)

10:30-11:10 I Keynote Vladimir Alexeev aka Merzmensch: It's a New Day: Entering new age of
human-machine creative collaboration
11:10-11:30 I Q&A (Moderation: Martina Tritthart)

11:30-11:45 I Coffee break

11:45-12:05 I Anoushirvan Masoudi: bastard poor images and the perfectionism of digital-realism
12:05-12:15 I Q&A (Moderation: Martina Tritthart)

12:15 I Lunch

13:45-14:25 I Keynote Krešimir Purgar: Reality, Realism, Proxy-Real. On Images and (Digital) Worldmaking
14:25-14:45 I Q&A (Moderation: Florian Gucher)

14:45-15:05 I Aline Guillermet: In-between code and image: Aesthetics of AI-painting 15:05-15:15 I Q&A (Moderator: Florian Gucher)

15:15-15:35 I Sebastian Rozenberg: Formatting and Mediating Similarity – Determination and Indetermination in Synthetic Images.
15:35-15:45 I Q&A (Moderator: Florian Gucher)

15:45-16:00 I Coffee break

16:00-16:40 I Keynote Antonio Somaini: Latent spaces. A Key Concept for Visual Culture Theory in the Age of AI
16:40-17:00 I Q&A (Moderation: Anna Schober)

17:00-17:20 I Beatrice Sartori: Virtual Afterlives: AI, Avatars, and Digital Reincarnation in Lu Yang Artistic Practice
17:20-17:30 I Q&A (Moderation: Anna Schober)

17:30-18:10 I Keynote Katharina D. Martin: Tilling the Ground: On the Creation of AI-Generated Images.
18:10-18:30 I Q&A (Moderation: Anna Schober)

19:30 I Conference dinner (from 8 pm, kitchen until 9 pm)

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I Friday, 08.11.2024

09:00-09:40 I Keynote Birgit Mersmann: In the Wake of Metacreativity: Dream(e)scapes in AI-generated art
09:40-10:00 I Q&A (Moderation: Anna Schober)

10:00-10:20 I Florian Gucher: Computational dreaming: The KI-image between deep kitsch and creative augmentation
10:20-10:30 I Q&A (Moderation: Anna Schober)

10:30-10:45 I Coffee break

10:45-11:25 I Keynote Florian Cramer: Gen-AI Crapularities and the Kaleidoscope Constraint
11:25-11:45 I Q&A (Moderation: Florian Gucher)

11:45-12:05 I Manfred Schmutzer: What happened?
12:05-12:15 I Q&A (Moderation: Florian Gucher)

12:15-12:35 I Charlotte Klink: Generation Loss: Migrant Lives, Migrating Images in
Times of Generative AI
12:35-12.45 I Q&A (Moderation: Florian Gucher)

12:45 Lunch

14:15-14:55 I Keynote Lotte Philipsen: ‘Natural image processing’: Aesthetic ideologies of text-to-image AI
14:55-15:15 I Q&A (Moderation: Martina Tritthart)

15:15-15:35 I Lorenzo Aimo: AI Generated Images: Postcards of Computational Meaning from the Latent Space
15:35-15:45 Q&A (Moderation: Martina Tritthart)

15:45-16:00 I Coffee break

16:00-16:40 I Keynote Anna Schober: I-figures in concrete scenes: patterns of audience address and their realisation in contemporary art
16:40-17:00 I Q&A (Moderation: Martina Tritthart)

17:00-17:20 I Bernadette Krejs: Exploring the Home Through Image-based AI Tools
17:20-17:30 I Q&A (Moderation: Martina Tritthart)

17:30-17:45 I Closing remarks (Anna Schober)