Digital Photography After AI: Continuity and Rupture in the Age of Automated Images
The DSI Community Digital Humanities invites you to an upcoming guest lecture exploring the intersections of art, technology, and AI.
In recent years, artificial intelligence technologies have made it easy for anyone to produce images that look indistinguishable from photographs. How do these AI-generated images change our understanding of photography? Should we consider them photography at all?
In her book Digital Photography After AI (MIT Press, December 2026), Amanda Wasielewski explores these questions as well as the historical and theoretical concerns for the field of photography after the widespread uptake of AI tools. In this talk, Wasielewski addresses AI-generated images in terms of the technique, form, and function of photography throughout its history, as well as the documentary function of photography, image resolution and filter effects, the surreal and real quality of photographs and AI-generated images, and the latter’s impact on representation and illusion.
About the speaker:
Amanda Wasielewski is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Uppsala University, working at the intersection of AI, art, and visual culture. She is the author of four monographs, including Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning (MIT Press, 2023), and Digital Photography After AI: Continuity and Rupture in the Age of Automated Images (MIT Press, 2026), and has advised the Swedish parliament and the European Commission on AI and cultural policy.
When / Wann: October 7, 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Where / Wo: Digital Society Initiative, Rämistrasse 69, 8001 Zurich
Language / Sprache: English
Registration / Anmeldung: Link
Organisation: DSI Community Digital Humanities
Program
| 15:00 - 15:10 | Welcome & Intro Dr. Eva Cetinic (UZH, Digital Society Initiative) |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | Talk & Discussion Prof. Dr. Amanda Wasielewski (Uppsala University) |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Apéro |