F109Z Fall 2024 Artificial Intelligence and Art

F109Z Artificial Intelligence and Art
Friday, 1:00—2:30, Nov. 8 One session
Instructor: Hugh Leeman
Uncover the backstory to the birth of Artificial Intelligence intersecting with visual art. From the middle of the 20th 3 Economics & Finance century in Middle America, early electronic compositions paved the way for artists, engineers, and technologists to lay the foundations upon which today’s visual worlds seemingly construct themselves. Peer past the threshold of tomorrow as we enter an era promising to augment human capabilities yet posing ethical and philosophical questions that weave the past within the dawn of a new age.
Hugh Leeman is an artist and lecturer teaching art history in English and Spanish. His lectures focus on the manifestation of social power structures and the spiritual realm in pre-modern art and the future of images’ ability to re-engineer social constructs