BLOG POST WEEK 8
During week 8 I was unable to attend class but was able to follow the online powerpoint and refer to the readings and other resources through Canvas.
This week focused on the way that photography has been rapidly boosted into the world of AI generation in the past few months. The debate around the fine line between forgery and creativity can be discussed, and the new age and definition of promptography was addressed.
During class, I believe we looked at ways we could prompt AI to use our previous photography work and other images from the internet to create promptography photographs for us. This would have been insightful, as we would have been able to observe just how easy it is to create images that can provide meaning and imitate real life shoots.
Unable to attend class and the excursion to the state library mirror exhibition, I was luckily able to to find the MIRROR exhibition online and view the photographs from there. This gave me insight into the different ways that photography can convey a story and I look forward to aiming to create more personal moments in my images in future.
When looking into the numerous ways in which promptography is starting to become the new source of many photographers work, I found it interesting to pair this with the article ‘Boris Eldagsen turned down a prize for his AI-generated image, and started a whole new conversation about art’ by Luke Siddha Dundon and Arianna Lucente. This article focussed on how photographer Boris Eldagen created the ‘first AI-generated image to win in a prestigious international photography competition’ An interview in this article involved Eldagsen explaining how although he loves creating AI-generated images he ‘realised, they’re not the same’. Eldagen described the art of promptography as ‘writing with prompts’ whereas photography is writing with light. I found this really interesting and it definitely made me start to consider how AI may become a danger in future when it comes to the authenticity of photographs.
Siddman L and Lucente A (15 May 2023) ‘Boris Eldagsen turned down a prize for his AI-generated image, and started a whole new conversation about art’, ABC News, accessed 24 September 2023, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-15/what-is-promptography-artificial-intelligence-boris-eldagsen/10230516. 4