A fourth and final workshop in the series featured Fen Jennifer Lin, associate professor at the City University of Hong Kong. Lin addressed “The Role of Technology in Legitimating AI,” with a focus on the emergence of AI-generated photography and art. Discussion revolved around inevitable tensions in how we think about artistic creation by humans and by artificial intelligence and about where to draw boundaries and make distinctions when co-creation takes place. The very meaning of art, conceived both as practice and as product, is at stake. The conversation revealed interesting differences between a mostly enthusiastic and pragmatic Chinese reception of AI image generation and the greater skepticism that the emergent technology has engendered outside of Asia.
This workshop was co-sponsored by the Georgetown University Representative Office in Rome and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London).
