A202
Start Date:
02.06.2025
Start Time:
17:00
End Date:
02.06.2025
Dominic Redfern
Neither Artificial, Nor Intelligent
Bernard Stiegler argued that humans and technology are co-constituted; humans are not separate from and do not precede technology, but instead, human evolution is entangled with the emergence and evolution of technics, a process he calls “technogenesis”. For Stiegler, humans are “always already” technological. This idea seems particularly relevant as we negotiate the present and future with AI.
Since DALL-E 2 launched it 2022, AI has gone viral.
What is AI?
What are the implications for artists and creatives?
What are artists doing with this technology?
How can AI art reflect our historical moment meaningfully?
Dominic Redfern will offer some thoughts on these questions in his lecture and offer a short reflection on his own explorations with this uncanny technology.
Dominic Redfern is a male presenting, settler Australian. He has been exhibiting video since 1997. Dominic has had three key bodies of work: a decade on performed identity; a decade of environmental studies; and his current return to abstraction and process once again addressing questions around identity and subjectivity. Across his career he has been supported by various municipalities, the ARC, the Australia Council for the Arts, and state arts funding bodies. Dominic has undertaken site-responsive projects in Brazil, the USA, Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Germany, and France. He is an Associate Professor at RMIT’s School of Art.