Imaging After Photography | Moody Center for The Arts

Concurrent with the appearance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), images has expanded from a method of capturing the seen world via a specialised analog machine to incorporate digital processes that may be electronically generated, synthesized, and modified by anybody with a smartphone. Since the rise of generative AI and the widespread availability of textual content and image-based algorithms, it has grow to be attainable to provide photorealistic pictures that don’t originate in three-dimensional area. Differences between pictures created via human statement of the world and people which are digitally fabricated have grow to be more and more tough to discern. What impression does this seismic shift have on the medium of images? And what are the implications for each artists and viewers? 

Imaging After Photography explores the mercurial nature of pictures, the evolving dialogue between images and actuality, and humanity’s ever-changing relationship to technological developments. Artificial intelligence has launched perspective-altering circumstances, shifting how we see the world and our place inside it. The featured works by international up to date artists provide nuanced vantage factors on the historical past of images and its intersections with machine studying, asking questions on human notion, technological intervention, and the way we mediate the indeterminate areas between the bodily and the imaginary. What is genuine, what is feasible, and what are the problems at stake? 

Featured artists embody Nouf Aljowaysir (b.1993 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; lives in Brooklyn), Refik Anadol (b. 1985 in Istanbul, Turkey; lives in Los Angeles), Gregory Chatonsky (b. 1971 in Paris, France; lives Paris), Sofia Crespo (b. 1991 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives in Lisbon, Portugal), Joan Fontcuberta (b. 1955 in Barcelona, Spain; lives in Barcelona), Trevor Paglen (b. 1974 in Camp Springs, Maryland; lives in New York), amongst others. 

The exhibition is curated by Alison Weaver, Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director, and Noor Alé, Associate Curator. The exhibition design is by world: Alejandro Stein and Frank J Mondragón.

Imaging After Photography is made attainable by the Libbie Rice Shearn Moody Fund for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Major help is supplied by the Elizabeth Lee Moody Excellence Fund and the Thomas D. and Pamela Riley Smith Endowment. Additional Support is supplied by the Moody Center for the Arts Founders Circle.