Was macht KI mit der Kunst, und was macht die Kunst mit der KI? Update 2024.

The technical innovations of machine learning have recently attracted a great deal of attention from a wide audience with freely accessible artificially intelligent programs such as DALL-E or ChatGPT. The almost daily public discussions oscillate between admiration, curiosity and concern. The DFG-funded Priority Programme (SPP 2172) "The Digital Image", led by Hubert Locher (Philipps University Marburg / German Documentation Centre for Art History - Image Archive Photo Marburg) and Hubertus Kohle (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich [LMU]), is taking this as an opportunity to organize a conference entitled "Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Image" from 21 to 23 February 2024 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. The priority program has been dealing with the phenomenon of the digital image and its effects on science, society and the economy since 2019. The aim is now to expand the discussion to include the aspects associated with the use of so-called artificial intelligence in a broader media and social context. In three panels on "AI and art", "AI in the public interest" and "AI in research and teaching", the question of the function, use and benefits of this new technology will be explored. The diverse topics and opinion perspectives will be discussed in short presentations by prominent and relevantly active guests and in moderated discussion rounds. In order to appeal to a wider audience, the conference will be broadcast live via Zoom.

In addition to the employees of the SPP sub-projects, who will be able to act as moderators and discussants, the following speakers have confirmed their participation: Constant Dullaart (Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg), Stefan Gronert (Sprengel Museum Hannover), Pamela Scorzin (Fachhochschule Dortmund), Eva-Marina Froitzheim (Kunstmuseum Stuttgart), Tina Lorenz (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe), Sebastian Sevignani (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena), Alexander Wulfers (Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung), Till Jäger (Kanzlei JBB Rechtsanwälte, Berlin), Björn Ommer (LMU), Manuela Lenzen (freelance science journalist), Roland Meyer (Ruhr University Bochum), Jürgen Scriba (Deutscher Fotorat), Peter Bell (Philipps University Marburg), Jan von Bonsdorff (Uppsala University, Sweden), Simeon Allmendinger (Research Institute for Information Management, University of Bayreuth) Christin Seifert (Philipps University Marburg / Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence), Gitta Kutyniok (LMU) and Martin Warnke (Leuphana University Lüneburg).

Whether and how AI-supported systems will be useful in the scientific environment in the future and what changes the digital image could bring will be discussed.

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