Images and Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence
Generative artificial intelligence has already begun to play a role in the construction of images. However, as yet it is hard to assess it what ways AI might contribute positively to the human-expressive domain of image making. It is nevertheless already clear that AI will in multiple ways play a role in the birth of new social imaginaries, extending the influence that advertising, journalistic, artistic, cinematographic and all kinds of images have today.
AI is the result of a new and revolutionary technology, but, as in so many other moments of the evolution of human culture, the implications of its use will generate unimaginable transformations. Even today and without having fully deployed all its potentials, AI is producing various polarizing perspectives variously in its favor or against its indiscriminate and uncontrolled use. The mere fact that a group of scientists, and CEOs of important technology companies requested a pause to AI indicates a high level of uncertainty and anxiety about the future applications and implications of AI.
At the Ninth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, we invite participants to approach to this problem based on protocols of academic and scientific reflection, analyzing that the implications of these developments not only for professionals, researchers and educators in the design and image-making sectors, but also for society as a whole.