Conference at the auditorium.
The reservation is mandatory via the online ticketing service – events section.
Tickets for the event also give access to the exhibitions.
“A new invasive species: AI impossible flora”
5 meters tall hostas and bright teal blooming geraniums, purple sunflowers, blue pampas grass plumes, black marigolds and rainbow roses; the list is endless. Social media platforms have recently turned into burgeoning virtual gardens filled with impossible, AI-generated vegetation in perennial bloom. A new invasive species: flawless, perfect to the point of absurdity, available in a range of wholly synthetic colorations, helplessly hyper—utterly soulless. Despite their blatant artificiality, as they appear on a small phone screen, at the swipe of a thumb, these plants swiftly pass themselves off as the real thing. How will AI change our relationship with technology and the natural world in a time of climate emergency ? How can photography embrace and ethically address the new challenges that algorithmic intelligence poses ?
This lecture is organized to coincide with the exhibition Science/Fiction — A Non-History of Plants, which retraces the visual history of plants through art, technology, and science from the nineteenth century to the present day. Bringing together over 40 artists from different periods and nationalities, not in chronological order, but through two conceptual frameworks : scientific and fictional. Bringing together more than 40 artists from different periods and nationalities, this exhibition compares historic photographic works with creations by contemporary artists.
The conversation will be held in English, translated in French consecutively.
Check out the catalogue of the exhibition from our Bookshop !
Discover the website Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture.
