Wednesday, October 23, 2024
16.00-17.30 Opening Keynotes
Neiburgs Hotel (Jauniela 25/27) / Zoom
ROSEMARY LEE (US/PT). Behind the Algorithmic Image
Algorithms now have a pervasive influence on the production, circulation, and interpretation of images. While novel in some aspects, these recent developments are connected to much earlier, even analog, geometrical, optical, and procedural methods. In this talk, Rosemary Lee will present her book Algorithm, Image, Art, examining the history, processes, and ideas behind the current abundance of algorithms in visual culture. The book looks at how the production of images in terms of algorithmic instructions has shaped images and art, as well as the values used to assess them, drawing connections between the algorithmic forms of visual media we are familiar with today and the precursors from which they evolved.
Rosemary Lee is an artist and media researcher. Her work considers how image production technologies fit within larger narratives about art, knowledge, and relations between humans and machines. She is currently an artist in residence with the European Media Art Platform hosted by NeMe in Limassol, Cyprus.
Her book Algorithm, Image, Art considers recent developments in artificial intelligence in relation to historical tendencies in image production. That work expands on her PhD project Machine Learning and Notions of the Image, looking into how contemporary artists’ approaches to algorithmic media are connected to longer discourse on the mediation of perception.
Lee’s work has been presented in international contexts related to art and technology including NeMe, transmediale, V2_, gnration, HMKW, the University of Coimbra, AMRO, ONB Labs, Ars Electronica, LOKALE, Kunsthalle Aahus, Click Festival, The Holden Gallery, Kunsthalle Trondheim, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, c4, Science Friction, LEAP, and Kunsthalle Athena. She is represented by Galerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin since 2013.
Lee’s artistic research has been supported with fellowships funded by the Austrian National Library, the Danish State Art Fund, the Arts Council Norway, Nordic Culture Point, Copenhagen’s Culture Harbor 365, the Transmediale Vilém Flusser Archive Residency for Artistic Research and the Burning Athens Residency for Art and Critical Theory.