Observatoire IA/ARTS (2024)

Organisation : Ada Ackerman , Antonio Somaini (Sorbonne Nouvelle) ; Alexandra Gilliams (Paris 1)

Thematic axes : Relations inter-arts et hybridations, Espaces sensibles : approches poétiques, esthétiques, critiques, Sciences, littératures et arts, Contemporanéités, avant-gardes, modernités

Keywords : Cinema, Visual Arts, Art History

Past sessions

25 Mar. 2025

Imagined Bodies, par Arvida Byström

05 Feb. 2025

L’IA à l’épreuve du cinéma, par Dork Zabunyan (Paris 8)

22 Nov. 2024

Métaphores de l’IA/ Conférence d’Alban Leveau-Vallier (Sorbonne-Nouvelle)

27 Sep. 2024

Artificial Optics: Contemporary Art and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of AI

16 May 2024

« Operative ekphrasis: The collapse of the text/image distinction in multimodal AI »

16 mai 2024 from 10:00 to 13:00 — 16 mai 2024

INHA, salle Walter Benjamin

This talk discusses the implications of multimodal artificial intelligence, including image generators such as DALL·E 2, for the traditional concept of ekphrasis. Using ekphrasis as an example of “thinking with AI,” it takes up the suggestion that in the digital realm, ekphrastic relationships should be understood as performative rather than representational. Since with the introduction of modern AI the digital realm needs to be divided into a sequential part (classic algorithms) and a connectionist part (artificial neural networks), the essay shows how the latter part ultimately tends toward a collapse of the text/image distinction in the technical system. Artificial neural networks both encode images and text as the same type of information, and they do so differently from the sequential model. Only in the context of multimodal AI, unlike in analog or sequential paradigms, ekphrasis goes beyond the separation of or transition between text and image, but rather transcends this difference.

04 Apr. 2024

La réalisation de films à l’heure de l’IA

28 Mar. 2024