Every Day We Have to Invent the Reality of This World—AI Post Photography

California Museum of Photography
On view October 7, 2023 to March 3, 2024
Opening Reception Saturday, October 7, 2023, 6–9pm

Archival Inkjet Print
16"x24"
Edition 1/50
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The past eighteen months have seen an explosion in public AI (artificial intelligence) image-generating software. Drawing from vast image repositories, systems such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion create a distinct kind of imagery that both echoes and distorts our familiar world. While they represent an emerging frontier of possibility, these AI-generated images also pose ethical quandaries, raising questions about plagiarism and copyright infringement; representation and bias; and the displacement of human artists. These systems, trained on our collective cultural imagery, also pose a compelling paradox: while potentially driving innovation, they may also risk trapping us in a perpetual feedback loop of our past, forever recycling our own image histories back to us. The work in this exhibition was made by sixteen artists using new artifical intelligence image-generating programs. Jeff Alu / Ben Millar Cole/ John Divola / Boris Eldagsen / Charlie Engman / Sam Finn / Diana Nicholette Jeon / Christopher Royal King / Lucia Grossberger Morales / Steffanie Padilla / Karchi Perlmann / Roope Rainisto / Kaitlyn Jo Smith / Jeff Soto / Synchrodogs / Jonas Yip

Curated by Douglas McCulloh, Senior Curator and Interim Executive Director, and Nikolay Maslov, Curator of Film & Media Projects. Programs at UCR ARTS are supported by the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) at UCR, and the City of Riverside.