20-minute Introduction to AI Photography
With Charles Sainty
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19
10:30AM ET
ONLINE EVENT
Free Online Admission
ABOUT THE EVENT
Are you interested in incorporating AI-generated images into your photographic practice, or simply a brief introduction to this new medium?
The invention of photography changed the way we see the world; AI-driven image synthesis promises to transform the way we view and create images. Provide a simple text prompt, a few words describing an image, and one can create new images in any style or transform existing images to any specification; users can add objects, buildings or artificial people to their images, change a bedside table into a penguin, etc.
AI-driven text-to-image systems are now available to the general public, but navigating this new space and using these uncanny tools can seem abstract or intimidating to new users. Over the course of this 20-minute lecture you will learn the basics of AI photography, including a brief overview of its history, along with the software and services driving this rapidly developing technology. The talk will finish with a fun, interactive demonstration of Dall-E 2.
Charles Sainty (b. 1985 New York) is an artist working with digital media, from photography to game engines and AI. His work uses information processing systems to explore themes including ecology, social competition, and the effects of time. An inaugural member of the New Museum’s groundbreaking art and technology incubator NEW INC, he has exhibited in the United States and China, and his work has appeared in publications such as Vice’s The Creator’s Project, Hyperallergic, Der Greif, Art F City and more. His awards and include the Curatorial Team Prize for Fantastic Art China in 2015, and a U.S. patent for a VR control system. He earned his M.F.A. from New York’s School of Visual Arts’ Photography, Video, and Related Media department in 2014, and an M.A. in art history with a focus on critical theory from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in 2021.