Bookings Open for Symposium Exploring AI in Photography
Book your ticket for our Community Portrait: Reprint Revolution symposium
On 14 January 2025, we are hosting Community Portrait: Reprint Revolution – a symposium to explore AI and community image creation: questioning the reimagining and reinterpretation of community images and the dramatic shift from traditional methods of photography.
The symposium is part of, and at the site of, our Community Portrait exhibition which features over 200 portraits of Bedford locals taken by local school-age children, Bedford College students, community groups and professional photographers, creating a ‘Community Portrait’ of the town. It explores the history of photography from 1840s glass-plate techniques, through to current digital techniques, and onwards towards to a potential future involving AI. The exhibition launched on 28 September 2024 and will run until 23 February 2025, at The Higgins Bedford.
Join us for an afternoon of engaging talks and thought-provoking panel discussions as we explore critical topics like bias in algorithms, AI-driven visual innovation, the quest for fair representation, and how AI can be harnessed as a powerful tool for advancing arts and culture.
There will be guest speakers, including AI Artists Fergus Laidlaw and Arnab Chakravarty, multi-award winning Digital Participation Artist John Whall and AI portrait paint artist Andee Collard.
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This project is sponsored by Fujifilm Bedford and is supported by Wixamtree Trust and The Steel Charitable Trust.
Photo credits: Andy Willsher