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The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University has opened its spring exhibition, “Imaging after Photography,” bringing together seven contemporary artists who draw on the history of photography to explore how artificial intelligence blurs the boundaries of authorship, authority and the historical record. From algorithmic bias and data-driven image-making to speculative approaches that reconsider nature and historical archives, the concepts in this exhibition will inform a series of cross-campus collaborations, public programs and student engagements.

On view through May 9, the exhibition arrives during a moment of heightened concern for the responsible use of generative AI and coincides with the 40th anniversary of FotoFest, the international photography biennial hosted in Houston. At the national, local and campus level, “Imaging after Photography” prompts critical questions that artists, researchers and technologists can help explore.

“At the Moody, our mission is to foster interdisciplinary conversation through the arts,” said Alison Weaver, the Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director of the Moody. “In this case, we’re most interested in how artists help us begin a conversation around the moment we’re in, the technologies we’re living with and what the future possibilities can be.”

A series of free programs will further expand the conversation about the topic, including the Imaging after Photography Symposium organized with faculty in the Rice computer science department, featuring artists, scholars and technologists; an Artists-in-Dialogue discussion with exhibiting artist Joan Fontcuberta in conversation with Rice professor of philosophy Robert Howell; and an AI-guided experimental dance performance choreographed by Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener. Throughout the semester, exhibiting artists Nouf Aljowaysir, Grégory Chatonsky, Sofia Crespo, Lisa Oppenheim, Trevor Paglen and Fontcuberta will also visit the campus for various public, student and faculty engagements.

Throughout the spring, the public is invited to join the conversation between artists and scholars as they investigate how machine vision systems generate, categorize and transform images and what those processes reveal about the assumptions built into digital tools.

“Imaging after Photography” is curated by Weaver and Noor Alé, associate curator at the Moody. The exhibition is designed by world: Alejandro Stein and Frank J. Mondragón. Learn more about “Imaging after Photography” here: https://moody.rice.edu/exhibitions/im...